BT
BT Global Services, 2009
A holistic process for analysing and reducing corporate CO2 emissions
Summary
BT’s Sustainability Practice is helping BT and its customers limit their environmental impact using the BT Carbon Impact Assessment service
There’s no doubt that climate change and care of the environment are among the biggest issues that face society in these early years of the 21st Century. Scientific evidence now overwhelmingly supports the assertion that human activity is contributing to global warming, and forty-five per cent of Europeans fear it will become a threat to them or their families in their lifetimes. As a consequence, businesses are under increasing pressure to demonstrate environmental sustainability and, as an organisation responsible for approximately 0.7 per cent of total UK electricity consumption, BT takes that responsibility very seriously. To help it continue to tackle the global issue of climate change, BT has set up a Sustainability Practice, a team that offers consultancy and advice aimed at achieving lasting carbon footprint reductions for BT and its client organisations.
Richard Price, a Sustainability Consultant in the BT Sustainability Practice, says: “My colleagues and I are on the front line in helping BT to combat global warming. Since 1996, BT has reduced its UK CO2 emissions by 58 per cent, and plans are in place to drive that reduction to 80 per cent by 2016. But every succeeding one per cent marginal improvement is harder won than the last. It’s our role to operate at the frontiers of this science to effect lasting change.”
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