Too many in denial about carbon management, but Australia ahead of the pack

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:30

IT Industry - Deals

However, Gartner advises IT management teams that haven’t already done so, to start building the processes and information systems to gather the necessary data as this can be time-consuming and organisations are likely to be subject to carbon reporting and pricing in the future.

Research VP at Gartner, Simon Mingay, says that while the number of enterprises using or planning to use carbon tracking systems exceeds those legally required to do so, given the inevitable requirements to support carbon reporting in the future, the percentage of enterprises preparing is low.

“Regardless of actual or anticipated regulations, midsize and large enterprises should at least be building carbon information systems, because, whether in a developed or developing economy, pressure will come down the supply chain to be transparent about carbon emissions.”

Mingay said the survey provided some noteworthy responses from individual countries when respondents asked if the possibility of carbon pricing is influencing their organisation’s planning for the next 24 months.
 
The U.K. and France recorded some of the lowest percentages at 7.9 per cent and 10.5 per cent, respectively, while in India and China, 21.1 per cent and 20 per cent of enterprises, respectively, indicated that carbon pricing was influencing planning.
 
Mingay says Gartner this is particularly surprising for the U.K. given that the country’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) goes into effect in 2010 and is estimated to affect 5,000 enterprises.

Gartner asked the IT manager about their carbon reporting, tracking and management systems, as well as their intentions to implement or extend such systems.
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