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IBM, Tesco and Dell have taken the gold, solver and bronze positions in a new league table assessing firms’ response to climate change, released last week by the Ceres coalition of investment firms.

The study, authored by analysts RiskMetrics Group, assessed the climate change governance and reporting practices of 63 of the world’s largest consumer-facing multinationals, including firms from across the technology, retail, pharmaceutical and clothing sectors.

Going forward we’re going to see more of the discussions about climate change and corporate social responsibility. As carbon trading becomes more mainstream, as we have to declare the carbon footprint of our business, our IT, the desktop and the data center, it becomes a business issue, one of cost, of corporate social responsibility and branding. Why can our competitors deliver their IT at a lower operating (or carbon) cost? How can we adapt our IT to be more efficient and effective in line with the business need, to make our IT one of the differentiators, how we can be ahead of the competition, leading the way we do business and our IT. Leveraging the most from your assets economically and technically in some sectors could be the difference in earning revenue, of adding value to your business, and making a loss, being a hinderance to your business. That the pricing tool was down for thee hours due to a component failure could be the difference between competing in that deal or not. Therefore running legacy applications on legacy platforms with legacy business practices could be as much as an operational cost or risk as deploying servers in volume when you could be using tools like virtualization and grid to deliver the same end results.

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