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A majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in government’s Greening ICT Strategy.

The strategy calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011.

A Cabinet Office group chair on the issue says there are scattered trends toward compliance with the strategy.

However, a survey of IT managers in the public sector showed 60% did not know there were any targets to aim for.

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.

An interesting article, I wonder how many people are considering the carbon footprint of their data center and at the same time are able to place a value upon their data center power consumption in order to declare their carbon footprint of the data center, their PUE. We need to further the message, prepare business and IT teams to understand the concepts so that we can respond accordingly technically and operationally.

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