The clamour to go green has become louder of late. Increasingly, companies are backing up corporate sustainability messaging through the execution of green strategies that focus on the implementation of cost and carbon saving green IT. This action is long overdue from the perspective of climate change –
Gartner estimates, which have become the standard measure, attribute approximately 2 percent of total global carbon emissions to corporate use of ICT and these emissions are expected to double over the next five years. But how does the IT footprint compare to other emission sources?
