Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu topped Greenpeace’s third annual ranking of global IT companies on their efforts to address climate change.
Greenpeace announced the release of the third version of their Cool IT Leaderboard, which reveals how some global IT companies are leading the industry by proving the potential of IT solutions to address climate change and reshape energy use. The rankings are based on three categories: Solutions — the technologies that a company has developed to improve efficiency; Advocacy — how much effort companies, and particularly their CEOs, are putting toward the passage of global climate legislation; and Footprint — the commitments companies have made to reduce their own emissions.
Greenpeace is urging IT and communications companies to get involved with energy policy and take advantage of the commercial possibilities in lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The NGO estimates that applying IT to power generation, transportation, and buildings can result in 15 percent emissions reduction over the next 10 years. They want evidence that IT companies are not only developing solutions for their customers, but measuring and reporting their own carbon and energy savings potential. It notes that cloud computing, a major IT industry initiative, poses “a major challenge” to IT’s positive contributions to climate control by centralizing compute power and resources in energy-hungry data centers. Read Greenpeace’s new report, Make IT Green: Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change, which shows that cloud-based computing has potentially a much larger carbon footprint than previously estimated.
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Author: Tracey de Morsella
