Memset founder to chair Intellect’s climate change group
Activist will continue to push for alternative to CRC for data centers
(6/1/2010)
Memset founder Kate Craig-Wood, was appointed to chair the Climate Change Group at UK industry trade body Intellect.
Craig-Wood will continue to negotiate with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in setting up a Climate Change Agreement (CCA) for data centres as an alternative to the UK government's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).
Craig-Wood said: "The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) target is to reduce global CO2 emissions by 50 per cent within the next 40 years – and by 80 per cent for industralised countries. To achieve this huge reduction large-scale transformational changes are needed in the way that we live and work. That’s where ICT comes into play. Without the intelligent application of information and communication technologies, especially in areas like transport reduction, smart grid and intelligent buildings, a low-carbon future will remain a distant dream."
She believes the CRC to be both ineffective when applied to data centres and detrimental to the economy as ‘it is likely to result in offshoring of the data centre industry.’
Craig_Wood also acts as BCS's (the chartered institute for IT) external communications officer for the Data Centre Specialist Group.
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