ABSTRACT

Key Points ◾ Discusses the standards, protocols, legislations, and likely initiatives related to climate

change and environmental sustainability ◾ Summarizes the Rio, Kyoto, and Copenhagen climate change summits due to their impor-

tance to and impact on business organizations ◾ Discusses the ISO 14000 family of standards and associated ISO 18000 and ISO 19001

standards in relation to to environmental performances of organizations ◾ Presents the regulatory standards for emissions such as EPEAT, RoHS, and WEEE used in

labeling the carbon efficiency of equipments ◾ Discusses the various types of Green IT audits ◾ Provides a integrated model to base an approach to conducting internal and external Green

IT audits

Introduction is chapter discusses the main protocols and standards that are associated with the environment and sustainability in the context of Green IT strategies and initiatives for business outcomes. e discussion includes the legal and regulatory aspects of impacting and emerging environmental standards faced by businesses. Successful Green enterprise transformation (GET) should result in a carbon-compliant organization. at means, the organization should understand, measure, and

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report its carbon performance according to the regulatory requirements of the carbon legislations in that region. As was discussed in Chapter 2 with respect to the Green IT drivers for an organization, this requirement for legal compliance is one of the six key drivers for GET.