The Green IT Guide: Ten Steps Toward Sustainable and Carbon-Neutral IT Infrastructure

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M. HalseyThe Green IT Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8057-7_9

9. Placing Your Environmental Policies in the Wider World

Mike Halsey¹  

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Genouillac, France

 

In Chapter 8, we looked at where countries and politicians sit on the world stage and what the problems are with getting governments to adopt more stringent environmental policies. Take Japan as an example. This country is considered by many to be the country that is most vulnerable to the effects of climate change after the heavy rain, heat waves, the Osaka earthquake, and Jebi typhoon all hit the country in 2018. The government of Japan knows that they have to do more and that they need to switch ...