The trend towards a Green IT

Abstract

The human life, today, is dependent upon the Information Technology (IT), that result an increasing number of electronic devices used in this technology, as well as the need for a huge infrastructure to cover all the needs of the world’s growing population of information transfer and preservation. However, these rapid and steady increases have made environmentalists examine the potential for IT to have an impact on the environment and on natural resources. They have concluded through their in-depth studies of this hypothesis that there are negative impacts of IT on the natural environment, and therefore called on all governments to embrace a Green Information Technology. For this purpose, this article discusses some of the legal solutions approved by states to adopt Green IT, both international level through international conventions and at national level through national legislations

Keywords

• green it; e-waste; natural environment; global warming; poisonous; international efforts; national legeslation