We earned a place on the CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard for our efforts to manage climate change with our suppliers, putting us in the top 2% of the 3,300 companies assessed. Tackling climate change Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges. We’re tackling it through targets, technology and teamwork and using our influence to ask our suppliers, customers and peers to do their bit too. – Making a net positive contribution Ambition 2017/18 performance By 2020, help our customers reduce carbon emissions by at 2.2:1 ratio achieved during 2017/18 least three times the end-to-end carbon impact of our business The Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals call on businesses to play their part in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve a duty to answer that call by targeting emissions reductions across our value chain. Our products and services can also help other people and businesses cut their carbon footprints. Research () shows that investment in ICT could, by 2030, result in a 24% annual reduction in the UK’s carbon emissions. Despite the ICT sector needing more energy to deliver these savings, growing use of telecommunications doesn’t mean an equivalent increase in carbon emissions. A recent study () shows there’s been a huge increase in data traffic globally, but emissions per user have dropped from 21.5kg CO2e to 19kg CO2e between 2010 and 2015 worldwide. That’s because companies like us are reducing emissions by improving energy efficiency, investing in new technology and using more renewable electricity. We’re working hard to shrink our carbon footprint from our operations, our supply chain and the use – of our products and to help our customers cut theirs. This is how we’re making a net positive – contribution overall. By 2020, we want to help customers reduce their carbon emissions by three times our own end-to-end carbon impact. That’s our 3:1 ambition. When we set it, we were only just net positive, with a ratio of 1.1:1. In the five years since, we’ve doubled that ratio, having now achieved 2.2:1, up from 1.8:1 last year. Our 3:1 ambition (2020)
We earned a place on the CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard for our efforts to manage climate change with our suppliers, putting us in the top 2% of the 3,300 companies assessed. Tackling climate change Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges. We’re tackling it through targets, technology and teamwork – and using our influence to ask our suppliers, customers and peers to do their bit too. Making a net positive contribution Ambition 2017/18 performance By 2020, help our customers reduce carbon emissions by at least three times the end-to-end carbon impact of our business 2.2:1 ratio achieved during 2017/18 The Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals call on businesses to play their part in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve a duty to answer that call by targeting emissions reductions across our value chain. Our products and services can also help other people and businesses cut their carbon footprints. Research () shows that investment in ICT could, by 2030, result in a 24% annual reduction in the UK’s carbon emissions. Despite the ICT sector needing more energy to deliver these savings, growing use of telecommunications doesn’t mean an equivalent increase in carbon emissions. A recent study () shows there’s been a huge increase in data traffic globally, but emissions per user have dropped from 21.5kg CO2e to 19kg CO2e between 2010 and 2015 worldwide. That’s because companies like us are reducing emissions by improving energy efficiency, investing in new technology and using more renewable electricity. We’re working hard to shrink our carbon footprint – from our operations, our supply chain and the use of our products – and to help our customers cut theirs. This is how we’re making a net positive contribution overall. By 2020, we want to help customers reduce their carbon emissions by three times our own end-to-end carbon impact. That’s our 3:1 ambition. When we set it, we were only just net positive, with a ratio of 1.1:1. In the five years since, we’ve doubled that ratio, having now achieved 2.2:1, up from 1.8:1 last year. Our 3:1 ambition (2020)
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