Tech Companies Pledge To Reduce Carbon Footprint

摘要

A group of leading European information and communication technology (ICT) companies met, on 11 December, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding to give her an update on their implementation of a June 2008 plan to use ICT to reduce energy use. The companies, British Telecom, Cisco, Dell, Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett-Packard and Intel, belong to the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI). The June 2008 'Smart 2020 report', commissioned by GeSI and carried out by McK-insey consultants, argues that transforming technology use could cut annual anthropogenic global emissions by 15% by 2020. This would deliver global energy efficiency-savings of over €500 billion.