We should recognise the critical importance of ICT as a major user of energy and natural resources and as an enabler for environmental and cultural change. Therefore, we have to do our best to ensure that technology systems that we use to improve our lives do not have a negative effect on the environment that our children and their offspring will inherit. I therefore wish to further inform the House and the public that we will be embarking on an ICT greening strategy to reduce the environmental impact of our computer and electronic systems.