With the inclusion of EE's suppliers Despite these savings, our total energy Emissions associated with use of this year, emissions from our supply use rose by 12.5% to 2,630 GWh due our products (now including EE’s) have increased 35% to 3.4 to the acquisition of EE. This decreased this year, even though million tonnes, and our total contributed to a 24.7% increase in net we continued to extend access to 2016/17 expenditure has risen by over 38%. total emissions from our operations connectivity and broaden our in worldwide this year, to 0.4 million range of services. Overall, the carbon emission intensity tonnes. from our procurement (ie emissions/expenditure) has Performance marginally reduced. Our worldwide greenhouse gas emissions (Year ended 31 March) CO2e kt 1997(base) 2014 2015 2016 2017 CO2e kt 1,628 391 387 342 428 Supply chain emissions (breakdown of 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 upstream Scope 3 emissions) Year ended 31 March kTonnes CO2e 2,989 3,080 2,724 2,840 3,815 Managing environmental impacts We manage environmental impacts to help us conserve natural resources, mitigate risks and comply with relevant regulations. Our environmental policy () sets out our commitment on this, and this year our environmental management systems have been certified to the international standard ISO 14001 in Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.
Performance in 2016/17 With the inclusion of EE's suppliers this year, emissions from our supply have increased 35% to 3.4 million tonnes, and our total expenditure has risen by over 38%. Overall, the carbon emission intensity from our procurement (ie emissions/expenditure) has marginally reduced. Despite these savings, our total energy use rose by 12.5% to 2,630 GWh due to the acquisition of EE. This contributed to a 24.7% increase in net total emissions from our operations worldwide this year, to 0.4 million tonnes. Emissions associated with use of our products (now including EE’s) decreased this year, even though we continued to extend access to connectivity and broaden our range of services. Our worldwide greenhouse gas emissions (Year ended 31 March) CO2e kt 1997(base) 2014 2015 2016 2017 CO2e kt 1,628 391 387 342 428 Supply chain emissions (breakdown of upstream Scope 3 emissions) Year ended 31 March 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 kTonnes CO2e 2,989 3,080 2,724 2,840 3,815 Managing environmental impacts We manage environmental impacts to help us conserve natural resources, mitigate risks and comply with relevant regulations. Our environmental policy () sets out our commitment on this, and this year our environmental management systems have been certified to the international standard ISO 14001 in Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.
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