The government has made important strides in lowering the carbon footprint of its information technology enterprise in recent years, but responsible agencies haven’t set up reliable metrics to gauge how much good those initiatives have done.
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The government has made important strides in lowering the carbon footprint of its information technology enterprise in recent years, but responsible agencies haven’t set up reliable metrics to gauge how much good those initiatives have done.
A key reason for the unspectacular progress, according to an October 2009 GAO report, is an absence of consequences for agencies that do not meet sustainability goals. Many fail to fully exploit green opportunities and simply issue vague goals for improvement, GAO said.
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