FOREWORD

Climate change, global warming and, before that, the new ice age have all been fashionably topical issues about which individuals and organisations have worried themselves over the course of the last 20 years or so.

Forrester, in a late 2008 report titled Market Overview: A Slowing Economy Won’t Slow Down Corporate Green IT Initiatives, says:

‘The slowing economy will not derail efforts to make IT operations more efficient and less environmentally harmful. In fact, of responding companies that are changing the pace of their Green IT activities in response to the economic outlook, those going faster outnumber those slowing down by two to one.’

A plethora of often emotionally-held views about the reality or otherwise of climate change ...

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