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Green ICT

Whether you are a manager in an Adult Education Service, a lecturer in an FE College or an IT Manager, there is no avoiding the fact that matters concerning the environment affect everyone.

The government wants to reduce carbon emissions by 1.2 million tonnes of carbon per year until 2020 and to help it achieve this, it has introduced the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) - a compulsory trading scheme to encourage large businesses and public sector organisations to reduce their CO2 emissions. In any case, it is obvious that by reducing energy use and using ICT more efficiently, you also reduce your energy bills; and you may also be genuinely interested in how carbon emissions affect the world we live in.

Green ICT includes both the reduction of the environmental impact of the computing function of an organisation (IT as a polluter) and, using ICT to reduce the environmental impact of other activities, such as use of on-line meetings instead of face to face meetings (IT as an enabler).

These pages have information, advice and guidance on Green ICT topics, links to green agenda government papers, energy tools and other useful links for the education sector.

For an overview of sustainable ICT, take a look at this briefing paper

Keep up to date with sustainability news, articles and commentary by viewing or subscribing to the RSC UK Green Team online "magazine": http://tinyurl.com/82acl25

Case studies

Green ICT case studies written by the RSCs for the Excellence Gateway