Compliance for Green IT: Pocket Guide

The growing range of Green IT regulations are challenging more and more organisations to take specific steps to ensure they are in compliance with sometimes complex regulations, ranging from cap & trade requirements through to regulations concerning IT equipment disposal. 

This pocket guide is intended to provide company directors and executives with a brief guide to the regulatory requirements that are driven by the Green Agenda.

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Green IT will be a critical component of organisational IT and compliance strategies from 2009 onwards.

There are many thousands of environmentally-related laws and regulations, only a few of which are of direct importance to the IT professional. It is important that the regulations that are discussed here – the ones that are of most significance in the management of Green IT – are tackled in the context of broader environmental compliance activities.

Regulations that are relevant to the IT sector include carbon trading and carbon cap-and-trade schemes, which are used in a voluntary or mandatory capacity to reduce CO₂ emissions and offset the impact of the environmental damage caused elsewhere. IT is a significant consumer of power and these schemes, while still very much in their infancy, are of growing importance and relevance for the IT organisation. This pocket guide provides a useful introduction to, and overview of, these schemes.

Apart from carbon trading schemes, organisations are increasingly exposed to regulations around the disposal of waste, particularly electronic waste and, again, these regulations have a specific impact on the IT organisation.

This Pocket Guide is not a legal compliance manual; organisations should refer to the actual legislation or regulations and take their own suitable qualified professional advice on all issues arising from their obligations to comply with environmental legislation.

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