Tag Archives: carbon legislation
Tougher green rules will encourage datacenter carbon laundering
Carbon is a tricky thing to manage and measure. The UK government is finding this out right now with the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme which is currently going through its third overhaul since being officially introduced in April 2010. I … Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability
More uncertainty for datacenter operators over CRC
Whoever decided to put the word “commitment” into the title of the UK’s latest piece of environmental legislation must be kicking themselves for not having another noun to hand. Substituting “commitment” for the words “idea”, “proposal” or perhaps “thing-we-thought-up-but-might-not-actually-do” would … Continue reading
Filed under Legislation, Sustainability
UK Datacenters Face Carbon Reduction Confusion
It might sound incongruous but many businesses claim that uncertainty about what shape legislation may take, is actually worse than having to comply with onerous rules when they eventually arrive. Ignorance is not always bliss it seems. Unfortunately, the UK … Continue reading
Filed under Legislation
Two reasons that data centers don’t need special treatment under carbon laws
–Posted by John Stanley Although data centers use approximately 3% of US electricity (likely with similar figures around the world), IT is widely recognized as being crucial in decarbonizing “the other 97%” of the economy. IT enables several environmentally beneficial … Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability, Technologies
Sustainable Silicon Valley releases handy reference paper describing CSR frameworks
Last week, Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) posted a white paper that provides a handy reference guide for answering these questions. (White Paper on Sustainability Frameworks (Programs, Guidelines, Protocols, Registries)). It should be useful for any company that’s getting started with CSR, or that wishes to adapt its current initiatives to an accepted standard. Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability
PricewaterhouseCoopers’s template for GHG reporting
Posted by John Stanley For those of you who wonder what a company’s annual public Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report might look like in the future, PricewaterhouseCooper’s has released a publicly available sample statement. The report, created for the fictitious global company … Continue reading
Comments Off
Filed under Sustainability
UK CRC – Policy challenges in dealing with the critiques
Posted by John Stanley As I mentioned in a previous post, the concerns that the UK’s IT industry has raised over the CRC present several public policy challenges. In this post, I’ll make a few points about each of the critiques. … Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability
UK Climate Legislation Alphabet Soup
Posted by John Stanley After my last post about the CRC developments in the UK, I realized that it might be helpful to provide a quick guide to the alphabet soup of acronyms that describe the UK’s climate change legislation. At … Continue reading
Comments Off
Filed under Sustainability
UK Datacenter Operators Dig in for Carbon Fight
One of the persistent themes in Green or Eco-efficient datacenters in the past two years has been the threat, real or imagined, of legislation to enforce energy efficiency. Continue reading
Filed under Sustainability, Technologies
Welcome to N Plus One
Welcome to this, the first posting in the new 451 Group and Uptime Institute blog, N + 1. This blog will cover topics in which we have deep knowledge and interest, including data centers, eco-efficient IT, corporate energy management, cultural change in enterprise IT, and carbon legislation. These topics and more will be addressed at our upcoming Symposium 2010 (May 17-19, 2010; Hilton New York). Please make plans to join us! Continue reading
Filed under Availability, Optimization, Scalability, Sustainability, Technologies
