Green ICT Quick Wins (30/6/2009)
Finance has released an agreed list of Green ICT Quick Wins based on the best practices already adopted by some agencies and the private sector.The list can help government agencies implement low cost measures to realise immediate energy efficiency savings.
http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governance/sustainable-ict/quick-wins.html

Workshop on ICTs and Environmental Challenges

An OECD Conference on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change, will be held 27-28 May 2009 in Denmark, hosted by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation – National IT and Telecom Agency. It will bring together policy-makers and major stakeholders and will contribute to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009 (COP15), as well as to ongoing OECD work on ICTs and the environment. This conference will follow on from the Workshop held in May 2008.

ICT departments will lead the way in sustainability: forum

ICT departments will have to measure their carbon emissions and find ways to reduce them. That’s the message from the recent AIIA Sustainability Forum in Melbourne.

Energy rating plan to cut carbon

THE federal Government will regulate the tech sector so it abides by a planned national energy efficiency strategy.

AUSTRALIAN IT INDUSTRY HAS HUGE ROLE IN CUTTING EMISSIONS: AIIA

MELBOURNE, Sept 9 Asia Pulse - Australia's information technology industry has a "potentially enormous" role to play in helping business, government and other sections of society reduce carbon emissions, an industry body said today.

As the federal government moves towards an emissions trading Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) said the IT sector would be a key catalyst in helping Australian firms reduce their carbon footprint.

IT chiefs urged to take lead on carbon

Communications Managers Association to show how IT can cut carbon emissions

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week 04 Aug 2008
Trade body the Communications Management Association (CMA) has urged IT leaders to make technology the cornerstone of organisational efforts to cut carbon emissions.

The CMA has joined forces with the Carbon Trust to develop best practice guidelines on how businesses can use information communication technology, such as tele-conferencing and home working, to realise carbon savings.

A joint project, called Carbon Intent, will include a thorough review of all existing research on energy saving strategies businesses have been employing and highlight companies that deploy green products, systems and business processes efficiently.

“Through the Carbon Intent initiative we propose to draw together and share examples of current best practice from video-conferencing to logistics and transport planning to home working,” said Glenn Powell, CMA chief executive, in a statement. "The aim is to create industry-wide guidelines and benchmarks that any ICT professional anywhere can tap into for assistance.”

Green IT in UK government

Green IT in UK government: implications for existing supplier contracts

Tom Watson, the UK's Minister for Transformational Government, has launched the white paper Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible, describing it as “the first step in a long-term vision to create a carbon-neutral government estate by 2012 and best practice for sustainability across the whole ICT lifecycle by 2020.”

The white paper sets out a series of actions that the UK government will take to ensure that its use of ICT helps to deliver a carbon-neutral government estate by 2012. Carbon offsetting is seen as a last resort.

Watson is convinced that, in the short term, a series of simple actions will achieve an immediate impact. These include switching off computers overnight and printing double-sided by default. The white paper highlights the fact that switching off a single computer overnight saves 235kg of CO2 . Grossing this up to the whole of the government (500,000 computers) represents a carbon saving equivalent to taking 40,000 cars off the road.