1. What is Green IT? An Overview

• Understand the overall need for an organisation to adopt a Green IT strategy.
• Provide an understanding of the historic development and context of the Kyoto
• Understand the definition of ‘Green IT’.
• Identify and understand an organisation’s external drivers and opportunities for greening its IT.
• Identify and understand the internal drivers, opportunities and benefits of adopting a Green IT strategy for both an organisation and its IT service provider(s).
• Understand the main goals of government legislation and voluntary initiatives pertaining to Green IT. Only international contexts will be examined but an overview must be given of legislation, standards and initiatives that are pertinent to a candidate’s local region.

2. Internal assessment of your organisation: where are we now?

• Gain an understanding of how to create an Green IT policy.
• Know how to assess an organisation’s business operations; in terms of their carbon footprint.
• Understand the contribution that emissions from the use of IT is making to those carbon footprints in terms of energy consumption and behaviours.
• Describe how to audit an organisation’s existing IT functions and processes.
• Understand the importance and risks, issues and opportunities around improving efficiency.
• Understand the concept of total systems lifecycle management that supports IT assets from manufacture to disposal and its carbon impact.
• Understand how best to re-use, recycle and dispose of IT assets.
• Developing a Green IT Action Plan.

3. Deployment of ICT for sustainability across your organisation’s activities

• Understand how to embed the use of ICT for reducing emissions from business activities, in an IT Strategy for Sustainability.
• Discuss the roles and responsibilities associated with Green IT and IT for sustainable operations.
• Explain how to encompass Green IT and IT for sustainable operations in end-to-end lifecycle costing, business cases and TCO.