Written on: 20 10-04-02
With the end of the Copenhagen World Climate Conference held on June 5438+February 19, 2009, it clearly indicates that the low-carbon era has come, and all countries and enterprises will soon be involved in this low-carbon trend. At the two sessions in March, low-carbon environmental protection has also become one of the hot topics for delegates.
Low carbon economy is one of the most popular words in recent years. Just a few years ago, many people may have never heard of the term "low-carbon economy", but now, this term is everywhere, even the aunt of the neighbor will say it. The so-called low-carbon economy is a green economy based on low energy consumption and low pollution. Its core is to promote the development and application of energy efficiency improvement technology, energy saving technology, renewable energy technology and greenhouse gas emission reduction technology, and to promote the transformation of the whole social economy to the mode of high energy efficiency, low energy consumption and low carbon emission.
At present, many countries in the world, including China, are actively developing low-carbon economy and have set off a low-carbon economic revolution. Taking China as an example, we are not only vigorously adjusting the industrial structure of the energy industry, increasing the proportion of emerging energy sources such as wind power generation, solar power generation and nuclear power generation, but also reducing the proportion of thermal power generation, so as to make the energy industry develop in the direction of low carbon and non-carbonization. We are also actively developing emerging industries such as low-carbon materials, life sciences, biomedicine, information networks, space ocean development and geological exploration, and strive to reduce carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 40% by 2020 compared with 2005.
Draw a perfect carbon footprint
In low-carbon economy, enterprises play a decisive role. This is because compared with individuals, enterprises undoubtedly have greater energy consumption and carbon emissions. At the same time, as individuals, most of the day is spent in enterprises, and their energy consumption and carbon emissions are also closely related to their enterprises. Therefore, in order to actively participate in the low-carbon economy, enterprises should start from me, fulfill their civic responsibilities, pay attention to energy conservation and environmental protection from all aspects of enterprises, and draw a clear carbon footprint.
The easiest thing to do is that enterprises can control the air conditioning temperature (not too low in summer and not too high in winter) according to national requirements, and adopt energy-saving lamps and other measures to achieve the effect of energy saving and emission reduction. Further, IT is to strengthen the monitoring of carbon footprint of IT products. With the continuous improvement of office automation and informatization, enterprises are increasingly dependent on IT products, and there are more and more IT equipment. If you look around, IT is not difficult to find that employees in enterprises spend most of their time using various IT equipment (such as computers, printers, networks and other products), and enterprises must also pay attention to the important role of these IT products in energy conservation and emission reduction.
In fact, with the widespread popularity of computers and other products in enterprises, the carbon emissions of these products are also rising in the whole carbon emissions-data show that the carbon emissions of ICT industry (information and communication technology industry, including IT industry and communication industry) were 530 million tons in 2002, and this figure will soon climb to 65.438+0.43 billion tons in 2020, accounting for 4% of the total carbon emissions. This is undoubtedly a huge number. As an enterprise, we must choose those green and energy-saving IT products and use advanced information technology to reduce energy consumption.
For example, enterprises can choose computers or servers with high overall performance-to-power ratio to reduce overall power consumption. At the same time, more consideration should be given to similar computer and server products with power conversion efficiency over 90%, which can perfectly and effectively reduce power consumption. Alternatively, enterprises can use laptops instead of desktops, thus reducing overall power consumption.
In the construction of enterprise network environment, enterprises can also make it greener through various strategies. For example, enterprises can use wireless LAN instead of wired LAN, which can reduce cables, energy consumption and environmental pollution. More importantly, enterprises should pay attention to the choice of green products when choosing network equipment-compared with PC, most network equipment such as switches and routers need to run 24 hours, which requires more attention to the green energy-saving characteristics of products. Therefore, the adoption of HP ProCurve series network products with high energy efficiency and low heat dissipation will greatly reduce energy consumption and power cost, greatly improve the return on investment and depict a perfect carbon footprint. For example, HP ProCurve network products have variable speed cooling fans for efficient cooling. The distributed computing structure can be adjusted according to the deployment scale of switches, thus optimizing power consumption; Support remote management of each port, and also reduce power consumption and energy costs; For up to 55? The innovative design adopted in the environment around C can reduce the need for external cooling, thus greatly reducing air conditioning.
It is precisely because of these excellent energy-saving and emission-reduction characteristics that HP ProCurve series network products have obtained the "green certification" from Miercom, the most famous network product evaluation institution in the industry. Evaluation laboratory enjoys a high reputation in the industry for its extremely demanding evaluation requirements and professional evaluation level.
According to the evaluation results of Miercom, compared with the industry average, the energy saving of ProCurve fixed-port switches can reach 38%, while that of modular switches can reach 45%. Perhaps the energy saved by a single switch is not obvious in figures, but if we take a simple enterprise network (2,300 LAN access ports and 3,800 data center switch ports) as an example, ProCurve can save customers nearly $46,000 in energy costs in five years! This is only part of the energy consumption. If the benefits brought by ProCurve's industry-leading lifetime warranty service are included, the cost savings of the enterprise will be considerable.
Low carbon, go further.
It should be pointed out that the green energy saving of the product itself is only a link to reduce the carbon footprint, because the product will be accompanied by carbon dioxide emissions during production, packaging and transportation. Therefore, to become a qualified citizen of green enterprise, we also need to consider environmental factors in the process of production, transportation and delivery of products. For example, some supermarkets in Britain have begun to try out "carbon labeling", that is, measuring the total amount of carbon dioxide produced in the production process of various commodities and marking it on the commodities for consumers' reference when purchasing. Obviously, this puts more stringent requirements on product suppliers.
In this field, many well-known manufacturers have begun to take action and are working hard to implement it. Still taking HP ProCurve as an example, HP requires the use of low-pollution and recyclable materials in production; In the delivery process, implement efficient packaging and logistics processes to reduce costs, oil consumption and environmental impact. For example, ProCurve products are transported using foam pallets instead of wooden pallets. This greatly reduces the amount of wood, protects forest resources and reduces the transportation weight by 80%. ProCurve also uses its global recycling facilities to reuse these trays.
In addition, HP ProCurve switch can be upgraded modularly, and spare parts such as power supply, fan tray and transceiver are designed universally, so that enterprise customers do not need to eliminate original products and spare parts, which will greatly reduce the generation of e-waste. HP ProCurve switches also enjoy a unique lifetime maintenance policy, which can also extend the service life of equipment and indirectly reduce the generation of e-waste.
IT is worth mentioning that enterprises should also make full use of IT information technology to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. For example, enterprises can use the video conference system to discuss or discuss important issues with branches or business partners in different places, which can not only avoid energy consumption and carbon emissions caused by taking airplanes, trains and other means of transportation, but also communicate in time, greatly saving the travel costs of personnel; Enterprises can also consider virtualization technology to reduce the purchase of enterprise servers, thus reducing energy consumption and exhaust emissions.