Press release

31/01/2008

Intellect creates industry leadership group to guide its energy and environment work

Big names of the technology industry sign up to environmental group

Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, today announced the creation of a group of ten leading technology companies who will provide strategic input to and guidance for Intellect’s energy and the environment work programme. The group is supported by senior directors from the following companies:

• Accenture
• Dell
• Deloitte
• Fujitsu
• HP
• IBM
• Intel
• Memset
• Microsoft
• Sharp

These directors will volunteer their time and expertise to ensure Intellect’s work successfully contributes to a low-carbon economy. The industry leadership group is chaired by Graham Palmer, Intel UK and Ireland Country Manager.

Commenting on his involvement in the leadership group, Palmer said: “Climate change is the biggest challenge facing us all. The Technology sector has already and continues to develop and deploy energy saving technologies to reduce the environmental impact of our products and services. Companies like ours are leading the way in terms of innovation in sustainability, meeting the continued demand for performance improvement, while making products and manufacturing processes ever more energy efficient. That puts us in a great position to help the wider technology industry to understand the specifics of the problem and to find solutions, and to do that through Intellect will have a greater community impact than to try and do that alone.”

John Higgins, director general of Intellect added: “The group’s first project is supporting a report that Intellect is drafting which examines the role of technology in tackling climate change. As part of this they will be responsible for helping Intellect meet the commitments it makes in the report.”

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