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The report, titled "The Path to Green Government", was produced by
environmental charity Global Action Plan and commissioned by networking
giant Cisco.
It is estimated that information and communication
technology (ICT) accounts for one-fifth of the Government's carbon
emissions. The Greening ICT Strategy was intended to put the government
in a leadership role in the sustainable use of ICT.
A large
proportion of carbon emissions can be blamed on the manufacture of new
equipment, so a principal focus of the initiative is to make the best
use of existing equipment.
The Global Action Plan study was conducted by direct surveys of ICT
managers in the public sector - local and national government,
education, healthcare and so on - as well as a questionnaire in the
magazine Computer Weekly.
Some 60% of respondents said that
they were unaware of the Greening ICT Strategy, and among those who
were aware, nearly one-third said that they had made no changes to
their own ICT usage and procurement, and had no plans to make any such
changes.
The problem, according to Global Action Plan director
Trewin Restorick, is poor collaboration and knowledge sharing across
the sector.
For more information, see http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk/
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