In today’s day and age, prevalence of computers and ICT in our day-to-day life is highly discernible. Automation is the key word of today’s industry and computers have changed the rules of the game drastically. Innovations and technological advances have changed the way people perceive organizational activities and established business processes. Decrease in cost of various software/hardware artifacts, wide availability of telecommunication facilities and infrastructure and overall increase in computer-awareness in public has facilitated Information technology’s take-over in almost every field of human life.
Now , along with the growing dependence of businesses and people on computers have resulted in increase in consumption of electricity and thereby increase in direct or indirect carbon emission. The need to reduce carbon emission and prevent global warming on various levels cannot be emphasized more. The first challenge with any emissions reduction process is the estimation and qualification of the current levels attributable to specific technologies that contribute to the problem. Once a reasonable estimation of the total emissions is known, monitoring can be introduced and the effectiveness of any process improvement or reduction program can be observed.
This report shows out findings of the research conducted in this medium level enterprise. It will briefly cover the business process , ICT’s contribution towards main business flows , information system architecture for the organization and calculation of it’s carbon footprint. We have also suggested some possible ways to lessen the carbon emission on organizational level for Source Professionals Pyt Ltd , Melbourne , so that it make a valuable contribution to the solution to the climate change....