Greener by reducing carbon

Identifying priorities for action
Driving effective behaviour change
Addressing the ‘big 3’ - Travel, Property and IT

Public sector organisations need to respond to the challenge of climate change - in other words they need to become ‘greener’. IBM has defined a comprehensive approach to help clients respond to climate change - to improve their energy efficiency and manage their carbon impact across all its business operations. We are working in partnership with some of the UK’s most forward-thinking organisations in the private and public sector to develop and implement carbon reduction programmes.

The case studies and papers below share IBM’s perspective and client experiences in this fast evolving area.

Features and case studies

Energy, the environment and IBM
The need for clean water and air; affordable and reliable delivery of energy; the dwindling supply of fossil fuels; the reality of climate change and its implications for future generations. See what IBM are doing to address these challenges.
Improving sustainability through the 21st century workplace (PDF, 54KB)
IBM’s vision of the office of the future.
How much energy do your IT devices use?
A guide to comparing their efficiency and cutting their carbon footprint, supported by the UK Government's Green CIO
Achieving carbon reduction (PDF, 488KB)
HMRC pioneers IBM’s holistic approach to identifying carbon management priorities.
Flintshire gains a greener IT landscape with IBM (PDF, 493KB)
Flintshire has ambitious goals to reduce its power consumption and cut carbon emissions. For the growing IT infrastructure, the emphasis is on eliminating "white space" in servers and storage devices through consolidation and virtualisation.
Dundee City Council builds an energy-efficient infrastructure with IBM;(PDF, 393KB)
To meet its environmental objectives, the IT department wanted to revolutionise its infrastructure through the use of server virtualisation and thin-client architectures.
A greener forecast for the Met Office
IBM to provide next Met Office supercomputer.
Driving the Virtuous Circle
How ICT can enable the carbon-effective organisation.
The Carbon Journey
Managing work-related travel emissions.
Natural England drives its ambitious carbon reduction programme with help from IBM.
Cutting the carbon footprint of IT
An IBM study with the support of Defra looks at how the carbon footprint of IT can be measurably reduced.
Leaner, greener, keener
Insights and inspiration on delivering change in the UK public sector.
Environment Agency gives green light to IBM customer service delivery strategy. (PDF, 86KB)
Defra and IBM- taking the paperwork out of farming. (PDF, 511KB)