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[TreeHugger] Casey Harrell, a Greenpeace International Campaigner helping to head up this report, notes that while Greenpeace recognizes that the IT industry's footprint is smaller and more well managed than other industries like the auto industry, the group feels that the focus needs to fall with IT because this industry is the future, while autos and other industries are going to be part of the past. He states, “We need climate leadership.

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