EPEAT’s Environmental Benefits Report 2009

This report from the Green Electronics Council lays out the energy, waste and greenhouse gas savings from the newly global green IT certification.

From our news coverage of the report’s launch:

When the registry expanded internationally in August 2009, it included 40 countries from Europe, Asia and the Americas. By December of that year, there were nearly 10,000 registrations of products, and a total of 3,700 Gold-level products, outside the United States.

The changing of the registry from national to international brings some wrinkles to tracking statistics, though: Those 3,700 Gold-level products (EPEAT ranks products on Gold, Silver and Bronze levels, based on the number of the total 51 criteria each product meets) include many duplicate products that are registered in multiple countries. Nonetheless, the GEC counts more than 2,000 unique products registered around the globe by nearly 50 manufacturers.

And the growth of EPEAT continues apace within the United States: Sales domestically of EPEAT-certified desktops, laptops, and displaysgrew nearly 10 percent in 2009, to more than 48 million sales. All told, EPEAT has captured about 42 percent of total U.S. desktop and laptop sales and nearly 17 percent globally.

Download the report from GreenBiz.com, and get more details at EPEAT.net.