IDC Index, Study to Offer G20 Environmental ICT Rankings, Recommendations- by Paula Bernier

Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 3 2009) Emissions

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   A new index to be released the week after next by research and consulting firm IDC scores various G20 countries’ abilities to harness IT and communications technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and explains why each ranks as it does.

    The goal of the ICT Sustainability Index, according to IDC, is both to create new understanding around these issues in general as well as to help these countries prioritize and include such communications-related investments as part of their environmental strategies going forward.

    Vernon Turner, senior vice president of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom Research, says that the index at long last provides a way to compare such countries as Australia, Brazil, Canada , China and the United States, which are ranked into five tiers based on the firm’s scores.

    "It's important for the G20 nations to have a clear road map of what technologies they should be investing in since almost 65 percent of all ICT executives believe that energy impacts their ability to be green," says Roberta Bigliani, research director at IDC Energy Insights.

    The index, along with a report offering policy recommendations, is slated to be unveiled Dec. 10 at the Skuespilhuset (The Playhouse) in Copenhagen, Denmark. For more details, visit  www.idc.com/events/climate.

   
   

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