Klaus Töpfer at IDC European Forum: Green IT Is “Economically Necessary”
Posted by Frank Gens on January 23rd, 2008
At IDC’s European ICT Forum in Berlin last Fall, Dr. Klaus Töpfer , environmental politics expert, and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) gave a presentation entitled “Green IT – Fashion or Challenge?”.
Dr. Töpfer’s key message was that – in the near future – prosperity (and peace) will require economic development of the heavily populated and economically underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and that the huge scale of this goal will require much more energy- and material-efficient resourcing – i.e., “green” approaches. Therefore, he says, “Green IT” (and “green”, overall) is not just about the environment: “it is much more – it is economically necessary”.
Here is the video of his speech at the IDC Forum:
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