Description

This course provides fundamental first-level guidance for:

• Anyone involved in procurement, provision, support, and delivery of Information Technology
• Anyone with an interest in how IT can assist an individual or organisation reduce their carbon emissions and output
• Individuals who have the responsibility of delivering an Organisation’s Green initiatives, IT or otherwise.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course students will be able to:

Explain the benefits of adopting Green IT for both the IT service provider and the organisation.

Conduct an Internal assessment of their organisation: where are we now?

Describe how to assess an Organisation’s business operations, IT use and products/services in terms of their energy consumption and understand the associated Primary and Secondary carbon footprint.

Gain an understanding of product lifecycles including:

• Material extraction
• Transport
• Manufacture
• Usage
• Disposal

Audit & assess an organisation’s functions and processes to identify energy and carbon inefficiencies and opportunities for IT to realise energy efficiencies, and carbon reductions'

Understand the contribution that IT is making to those carbon footprints and the opportunities that IT brings to reduce those footprints'

Understand the importance, risks, issues and opportunities around:

• Printing and recycling
• Energy efficient computing
• Mobile and Remote working
• Resource sharing platforms
• Assessment of environmental and property impacts
• Virtualisation
• Power efficiency technology
• Data Centre rationalisation
• Out-sourcing opportunities
• Best Practice frameworks e.g. ITIL®

Gain an understanding of the difference between embodied emissions and those related to consumption.

Understand how to make sustainable IT procurements and how to best use and recycle/re-use/dispose of IT assets to meet external expectations and requirements by enhancing sustainability.

Understand the opportunity for the organisation’s to reduce its Carbon Footprint by investing in IT growth and the concept of Silicon Trading.

Understand the concept of ‘Green Wash’ and how it can be overcome.

Understand how to create and implement a joined-up Green IT strategy

Explain the importance of aligning the Green IT strategy to an organisation’s environmental and sustainability policy

Discuss the roles and responsibilities associated with Green IT including:

• The Green IT Champion
• The Procurement Manager
• Sustainability Officer
• Finance and Cost Benefit Analysis including:
• End to end costing (lifecycle approach)
• TCO (total cost of ownership) and equipment refresh
• Calculating the payoff period of investments in Green IT
• Understand how to manage external relationships and stakeholder expectations

Understand how to manage  and change staff behaviours towards adopting greener ways of working

Topics

The following principles are addressed:

Understand the definition of “Green IT”

Understand the overall environmental need for an organisation to adopt a Green IT strategy including:

• Climate Change
• Dangerous and exploitive working practices
• The effect of hazardous waste use and disposal
• Consumption of precious resources such as oil, gas and water

Identify and understand an organisation’s external drivers and opportunities for greening its IT including:

• Political
• Environmental
• Social
• Legal

Identify and understand an organisation’s internal drivers, opportunities and benefits of adopting a Green IT strategy including:

• Cost
• Reputation
• Culture

Understand the main government policies and the goals and objectives of

• UK and EU legislation pertaining to Green IT including:
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
• Eco Design of Energy Using Products (EuP) Directive
• Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and UK Regulations
• EU Code of Conduct
• WEEE Directive
• Batteries Directive
• ISO14001
• BSI PAS 2050
• EPEAT
• ECMA (European Computer Manufacture Association) International
• Kyoto Protocol
• Energy STAR

Provide an understanding of the historic development of the Kyoto Protocol covering:

• The formation of the International Panel on Climate Change
• The Rio Earth Summit
• The 2001 Bonn Agreement
• UK Climate Change Bill
• UK Government Carbon Budget System
• UK Government Climate Reduction Commitment

The following dates are available for this course:

Heywood (Manchester)

• 29 November-1 December 2010
• 19-21 January 2011
• 16-18 March 2011
• 31 May-2 June 2011

Maidenhead

• 7-9 December 2010