ITI Releases Strategic Plan for Addressing Climate Change

The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) outlined strategies agreed to by its member companies to address and respond to climate change, ITI said in a statement Thursday. The statement highlights three main commitments -- reducing the carbon footprint of operations, reducing the carbon footprint of products over their lifecycles and delivering ongoing innovations to transition to a "sustainable low-carbon global economy" -- to be undertaken by members. The statement also identified a commitment to supporting government policies "with the intent of both mitigating and adapting to climate change." The efforts to support certain public policies related to climate change will be done with increased public-private partnership, the statement said. "We are not an industry that is fond of the status quo, and when it comes to climate change the status quo is unacceptable," ITI CEO Dean Garfield said in a blog post. "We are determined to use our innovative minds to find solutions to these challenges and to identify the opportunities that lie ahead to reduce carbon emissions."