Green ICT – Pink Elephants Or Real Returns?

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Author
Hendrik Garz, Claudia Volk
Publisher
WestLB
Publication date
August 2008
Type
Reports
Industry
ICT
Category
Environment/Climate Change
Managing Corporate Responsibility
Discipline
Environmental Management
Language
English
Link
Green ICT – Pink Elephants Or Real Returns? [1]
Free/Pay for content
Free
 

WestLB forecast increasing pressure on ICT firms to put "green" ICT at the top of the management agenda. The report explores the need for green ICT, the regulatory and voluntary pressures, and the issues of disclosure, as well as how ICT can be a force for good. The report concludes that Green ICT is no illusion, no "pink elephant". Green ICT may be at an early stage, but it will be a real, significant and growing factor in the future of the ICT industry.

Report consists of the following chapters:

  • Green ICT – pink elephants or real returns?
  • The anatomy of the sector, and current trends
  • Life cycle assessment - Material 'green' challenges for ICT sector
  • ICT and the environment: Part of the problem, but also part of the solution
  • Change - Going 'green' besomes essentioal for the industry leaders
  • 'Green ICT' - corporate disclosure of environmental information
  • 'Freen ICT' and the integration of financial decision-making variables

 

 

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Source URL: http://www.businessinsociety.eu/resources/3076

Links:
[1] http://www.london-accord.co.uk/accord_2008/reports/WestLB_GreenICT.pdf