Current trends suggest that the need for enterprises to develop much more explicit ‘green’ environmental strategies will expand dramatically, and perhaps emerge as a critical business requirement. As companies seek to verify the reduction of their carbon footprints, IT has an important role to play. Reducing power and cooling requirements, shrinking physical office space, supporting telecommuting, replacing travel with video conferencing and properly disposing IT products are just some of the steps that will be required. This report will develop a model for quantifying and evaluating the impact of various green alternatives.

Download a free pdf of the MCA's Spring 2008 report "A growing concern - how should business adapt to a low carbon world?" which features a contribution from Doug Neal, Research Fellow. Click Here

Read our blog post on the Green IT Study Tour here.