BT assess carbon impact in Benelux
BT has launched its “Carbon Impact Assessment” in Benelux, a Western Europe union comprising of three neighbouring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, in a bid to help large corporate and public sector organisations to reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint.
BT’s carbon impact assessment has been designed to allow organisations the ability to accurately calculate the amount of CO2 emissions they produce as a result of the use of networked IT services. It then identifies areas for improvement and provides practical solutions that will help customers reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint.
The assessment also investigates people’s work patterns (such as their travel and IT usage) and how they contribute to CO2 emissions, along with how business operations, shared services and building infrastructure also adds to an organisation’s carbon footprint.
This approach allows a number of business scenarios to be tested where an assessment is made of the associated energy and carbon reductions, for example; from ‘what if I consolidated my data centres and utilised them more efficiently through virtualisation?’ to ‘what if I introduced agile working so that people could work from home or on the move?’ or ‘what if people didn’t need to travel to meetings but used audio and video conferencing instead?’
It is the ability to understand the role which networked IT services can play in both producing and reducing CO2 emissions that is crucial for any business to achieve long term sustainability and BT’s carbon impact assessment service therefore not only benefits the environment via reduced energy consumption and a reduced carbon footprint, but it also helps businesses to achieve significant cost savings.
Organisations who can achieve both will come out the economic crisis much stronger than their competition comments Bas Burger, Chief Executive Officer for BT Benelux.
Mr. Burger continues by saying that when BT assess clients’ CO2 emissions, they explore both the required behaviour change along with any adjustments to their network and IT-infrastructure, which is where the majority of customers have yet to take action but can benefit significantly from BT’s learning and capabilities to help them with the development of more sustainable business solutions.
BT leads in the area of sustainability –having been rated leader in the telecommunications sector of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for eight consecutive years, from 2001 to 2008, the company remains one of the best-performing companies in the sector.
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