Green IT Report 2008: The Computer Equipment Lifecycle Survey

Overview

A recent Gartner publication revealed that the IT industry’s global carbon footprint – at 2% – was equivalent to that of the under-fire airline industry. The big challenge facing the IT industry is to continue to develop products that consume less electricity, emit less heat, and can be manufactured efficiently and ethically and also to meet the increasing demands of the rest of industry to help it resolve its own carbon-reduction challenges.

This report serves as an analysis of Capgemini’s technology partners’ green credentials and sustainability policies and provides Capgemini’s views and recommendations. In addition, Capgemini has highlighted those areas of infrastructure manufacture that Capgemini believes will experience particularly important development in the future.