Towards Green IT: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Administration
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework
2.1. Digital Transformation
2.2. Governance IT
2.3. Green IT
3. Methods and Materials
3.1. Object of Study
3.2. Description of the Methodological Design
- The Energy Consumption indicator, which considers the consumption of IT equipment and calculates the energy consumption per hour and year, is weighted to verify its contribution to the alignment with Green IT.
- For the carbon footprint, the CO2 emissions indicator is available, where, based on the annual energy consumption and the value made available by the electricity supplier [54] CO2 g/kW·h, calculates the emission of grams of CO2 into the atmosphere in a year. Each organization or country must consider its CO2 g/kW·h value adequate.
- Recycling has a Material for recycling indicator, where the number of pieces of equipment is counted by their weight.
- The value of climate change is provided by a Global Warming indicator that calculates the ratio of CO2 emissions, previously calculated, by the value of 1000 Gt, which corresponds to 0.4 degrees centigrade, provided by [55].
- The indicator for deforestation is Paper Reduction/Deforestation, which is based on the ratio of the annual expenditure of reams of sheets of paper by the number of reams obtained by each tree, a value made available by [56]. It tells us the number of trees felled annually for our paper expenses.
4. Results: Environmental Aspect of the FACIIL Framework
5. Discussion
5.1. Analysis of Results
5.2. Future Work
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Landum, M.; Moura, M.M.M.; Reis, L. Towards Green IT: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Administration. Energies 2024, 17, 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010057
Landum M, Moura MMM, Reis L. Towards Green IT: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Administration. Energies. 2024; 17(1):57. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010057
Chicago/Turabian StyleLandum, Manuel, M. M. M. Moura, and Leonilde Reis. 2024. "Towards Green IT: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Administration" Energies 17, no. 1: 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010057
APA StyleLandum, M., Moura, M. M. M., & Reis, L. (2024). Towards Green IT: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Administration. Energies, 17(1), 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010057