Global enterprise IT measures to reduce carbon footprint 2021, by category

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Ahmed Sherif,
Jul 7, 2023
In 2021, 15 percent of respondents from a global Capgemini study indicate having undertaken measures regarding IT hardware to reduce the carbon footprint of their organization. Additionally, the study found that 35 percent of organizations measure the environmental impact of disposing their hardware.

Have you undertaken any measures across different components of enterprise IT to reduce your carbon footprint?

CharacteristicNot aware/Not implementedPilotsDeployed
IT hardware/user devices 39% 46% 15%
Cloud computing/virtualization 57% 32% 10%
Networks and communication systems 46% 42% 11%
Applications and data 59% 36% 5%
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May 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

December 2020 to January 2021

Number of respondents

1,000 respondents

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Business and IT leadership roles

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Respondents represent organizations with annual revenues in excess of one billion U.S. dollars. Respondents hold various roles and represent several sectors.

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