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The document discusses policies, practices, and metrics for environmentally responsible businesses. It covers how green policies are implemented through practices and proven through metrics. Some key points discussed include how carbon footprint is measured based on coverage, duration and intensity; how renewable energy sources should be incorporated in green policies; and frameworks for measuring green IT and carbon emissions metrics.

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Unit-1-Chapter3-Text Book1

The document discusses policies, practices, and metrics for environmentally responsible businesses. It covers how green policies are implemented through practices and proven through metrics. Some key points discussed include how carbon footprint is measured based on coverage, duration and intensity; how renewable energy sources should be incorporated in green policies; and frameworks for measuring green IT and carbon emissions metrics.

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Unit-1

Chapter-3(Text Book1)

Environmentally Responsible Business:


Policies, Practices, and Metrics

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Introduction:
The chapter discusses the policies, practices, and metrics that result
from the development of the Green enterprise strategies. Such
policies, practice, and metrics are an important and integral part of an
overall Green initiative of an enterprise.
Development of green policies equips an organization to handle the
inevitable resulting challenges when changing the way it currently
operates.

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Green corporations based on green policies,
practices, and metrics (shifting of IT function)

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Green policies are implemented through
practices, and proved through metrics.

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Policies and Practices in ERBS
• Environmentally responsible business policies.

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Lean Impact on Green
“lean” effort can be summarized as follows:
Lean-green goal identification.
Product differentiation.
Alignment with green enterprise goals.
Lean-green measurements.
System support for lean initiatives.
Lean-green marketing.
Lean-green process quality and process improvements.
Lean-green business framework.
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Environmental Areas Covered
• Green IT policies impact in three ways (length, breadth, depth).

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Policies, Practices, and Metrics

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Carbon footprint of an organization is
based on coverage, duration, and intensity.

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Various Green Values Derived by
Organizations

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Green organizational goals to be achieved
through policy development

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Renewable energy sources need to be
increasingly incorporated in green policies

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Mind map for the role of a Chief Green
Officer (CGO)

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Incorporating environmental practices in
green organization.

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Coverage of carbon metrics.

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Emissions monitoring by different industry
sectors

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Framework for Green IT metrics.

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Elements and scopes of Green IT metrics.

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Measuring CO2e.

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Typical breakdown in measuring carbon
emissions (example of end-user devices).

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Measures for Green Balanced Score Card

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Green Capability Maturity Model.

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Reference:
• Bhuvan Unhelkar. Green IT Strategies and Applications-Using
Environmental Intelligence, CRC Press, 2011.

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