Ifgict & Oecd

IFGICT

Towards Green ICT Strategies: Assessing Policies and Programmes on ICT and the Environment

June 2009

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies. The OECD member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD.

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Foreword

This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2008, and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2009. The report was prepared by Christian Reimsbach Kounatze, consultant, as part of the WPIE’s work on ICT's and the environment under the overall direction of Graham Vickery, OECD Secretariat. It contributed to the OECD Conference on “ICTs, the environment and climate change”, Helsingør, Denmark, 27-28 May 2009 (www.oecd.org/sti/ict/green-ict) and is a...