Guidelines for Green ICT Policies
The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has asked for feedback from the Australian IT industry on their proposed Green ICT Quick Wins, as part of their implementation review of the Gershon Report.
A recent report commissioned by Bell Micro, an IT distributor in the UK, has found that 21% of organisations have "implemented" a Green IT policy however only 8% of these have actually implemented the policy in its entirety...
Claiming you are carbon neutral? Better read this guide!
"It's about doing the right thing"
This statement is how Alison Ewings started her talk on Westpac's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, presented at the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) on 20th May. Ewings went on to talk about how CSR programs based solely on financial benefits are likely to fail when 'times get tough', usually making them one of the first areas to be cut from budgets, and how it is the 'intangible' value of corporate social responsibility that most benefits business, aligning it back to her initial statement - "It's about doing the right thing".
The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) introduced the concept of voluntary 'sustainability compacts' a couple of years ago - an agreement between business and goverment for leading change around environmental issues...and HP was ahead of the pack back in 2005...
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