The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) believes that IT could be the key to slashing harmful CO2 emissions and stemming climate change.
Two reports independently authored by the WWF and various academic experts, and funded with the help of HP and Microsoft, claim that relatively simple IT measures implemented on a global scale could help to cut emissions by at least half of the current US total for annual emissions by 2050.
The first report, entitled Virtual Meetings and Climate Innovation in the 21st Century (PDF), concludes that employee travel accounts for at least 50 per cent of non-manufacturing firms' total carbon footprint, which could be dramatically reduced through virtual meetings.
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