Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, today announced it has won the ‘Banksia Environmental Award for Leading in Sustainability – Setting the Standard for Large Organisations’ award, in what is regarded as the most prestigious environmental awards program in Australia. With this award the Banksia Foundation has acknowledged Fujitsu’s long term commitment to sustainability and measurable achievements.

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, today announced it has been awarded the No. 1 spot on the Top 12 Green-IT Vendors list by IDG’s Computerworld, the premium IT media brand dedicated to providing peer perspective, IT leadership and business results. Fujitsu has been climbing the Computerworld Top 12 Green-IT Vendors list since the Award’s inception four years ago, and has now won the prestigious first place in both 2010 and 2011.

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, today announced it has been included in the Newsweek Green Global 500 Ranking, coming in at Number 13. The Newsweek Green Ranking places companies based on their actual environmental footprint, management of that footprint and sustainability communications. The analysis provides a reliable, cross-industry framework for comparing the environmental commitment and performance of major companies.

The passage of the Government’s carbon tax bills through the lower house could be enough to unleash a fresh torrent of green IT initiatives and also place additional demands on the public service to urgently develop the information systems needed to administer and monitor the new regime.

The GreenTouch Consortium - a global research initiative dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of information and communications technology networks by a factor of 1,000 - says it will reveal a comprehensive roadmap at an Open Forum on 17 November in conjunction with its members meeting, in Seattle.

Only 1 per cent of Australian CIOs see or pay for their electricity bills – even though ICT represents up to 75 per cent of energy usage in some organisations. And although Australia initially started well in the sustainability stakes, it’s now slumped, and is the worst in the world when it comes to end user sustainability.

Companies importing 5,000 or more computers or printers into Australia will have to participate in and contribute to the operation of the national e-waste scheme expected to get underway next year. And the service won’t just be available for city dwellers – towns with populations of just 10,000 must be provided with at least one free recycling collection each year.

Today is the last day that people wanting to attend the Sydney or Adelaide public meetings regarding the proposed regulations governing mandatory computer recycling can register for the events being held next Tuesday. But at time of writing the Government has yet to publicly release its draft regulations, leaving interested parties with no choice but to register today and cross their fingers that the draft is published in time for them to properly analyse it.

Seeing the benefits of introducing more sustainable operations seems to have eluded some businesses, with many companies yet to take significant action to introduce sustainability initiatives.

An industry analyst is tipping the Australian Government's climate change plan to improve the prospects of companies specialising in systems to manage energy use efficiently and to report on related compliance issues.