Dennis Pamlin, co-author and a consultant working for WWF Sweden, said he was “surprised at the lack of disruptive innovation, with the majority of responses essentially focused on the incremental 'client-driven' development.”
“If the ICT industry is to deliver on its promise of making a significant contribution to enabling a transformation to a low-carbon economy it is going to require substantially more than marginal incrementalism,” he said.
The survey showed that service and software providers have improved their position from the first survey in 2008, but remain relatively immature in terms of both their internal programs, as well as their market offerings.
Fujitsu, ranked second, was the only company to set a long-term context to its initiatives, and want to help reduce more emissions in society through low carbon IT solutions than their own emissions.
The survey also found that inter-industry partnerships are starting to emerge, particularly from ICT providers including Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and IBM.
Verizon took bottom spot in the poll, with Lenovo ranked third from last.
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