BT launches carbon assessment service (20-Sep-07)
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BT Global Services has formed a sustainability practice in the UK and US aimed at large corporates and public sector organizations. And it has just launched a carbon impact assessment service, aimed at helping organisations to calculate the amount of CO2 emissions produced as a result of their use of networked IT services. To establish the scale of the client's carbon footprint, the appraisal will take into account staff work patterns, business operations, shared services and building infrastructure.
It also provides a set of solutions to assist customers in reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint. It should enable companies to calculate their impact on the environment if they virtualise their call centres or hold teleconferences instead of face-to-face meetings.
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BT launches carbon assessment service
Appraisal will calculate corporate clients' CO2 emissions
Sarah Arnott, Computing 20 Sep 2007 BT is launching a carbon impact assessment service to calculate the CO2 emissions of corporate customers' IT estates.
The appraisal will take into account staff work patterns including travel and IT use as well as business operations, shard services and building infrastructure to establish the organisation's carbon footprint.
Recommendations will be made on the basis of behavioural change and potential infrastructure adjustments, said BT Global Services head of sustainability Dinah McLeod.
"Large organisations have many activities that can directly or indirectly cause the emissions of carbon.
"BT can credibly and demonstrably help a customer understand the role networked IT services plays in both producing and reducing carbon footprint."
The telecoms firm has cut its own carbon emissions by 60 per cent since 1996 and has a target to shave off another 20 per cent by 2016.
- Source: VNUnet
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By Martin Veitch: Thursday 20 September 2007, 18:27
BT is to launch service that helps firms measure their IT-created carbon footprints. The telecoms behemoth is setting up a sustainability practice under the Global Services umbrella brand and will calculate customers’ CO2 emissions produced by IT services. After using the metric it will offer advice on cutting the size of the footprint. The service will be initially available in the UK and US.
Some areas where firms can take chunks out of their emissions include using virtualisation, home working and teleconferencing, it suggested. Of course, you could argue that the conferencing and remote working ideas will also help BT shift its own services but the firm does have a long record of flexible working for its own staff. Also, BT claims to have cut its own footprint by 60 percent over the last 12 years.
- Source: The Inquirer
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BT joins growing list of green consultants
More and more companies are grasping the importance of a green strategy to address swelling energy bills and power shortages, as well as to shrink their carbon footprints. The next logical step, of course, is planning a strategy to tackle the problem, which is no easy task, considering just how many facets of a company's operations play into the big green picture.
Not surprisingly, vendors are now lining up to help in developing green blueprints for shrinking carbon footprints and lowering energy consumption. Sun, for example, unveiled a set of services and tools last month as part of its Eco Innovation Initiative. IBM has boarded the green-consulting train, as has consulting firms such as A.T. Kearney, which just announced its plans to offer "carbon-neutral consulting."
And just today, BT's Global Services sustainability practice launched a service to help large organizations reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint.
According to BT, the service will "take into account the way people's work patterns (such as their travel and IT use) contribute to CO2 emissions, and how business operations, shared services, and building infrastructure add to an organization’s carbon footprint." As part of the service, BT will help companies assess a variety of business scenarios to determine what benefits they might reap through, for example, virtualizing the call center or holding virtual meetings so as to cut travel.
"Importantly, when looking at clients' carbon emissions, we explore both the required behavior change as well as any adjustments to their infrastructure," said Scott Cain, head of IT transformation for BT Global Services, in a written statement. "Many of our customers have yet to mobilize significantly in this area and can benefit from BT's learning and capabilities to help them in their development of more sustainable business solutions."
- Source: InfoWorld
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BT Launches Sustainability Practice in US & UK
Sep 21 2007
British Telecom has formed a sustainability practice in the UK and US aimed at large corporates and public sector organizations.
BT’s “carbon impact assessment” focuses on measuring and helping to reduce the amount of CO2 emissions produced as a result of networked IT services.
BT says the program takes into account the way people’s work patterns (such as their travel and IT use) contribute to CO2 emissions, and how business operations, shared services, and building infrastructure add to an organization’s carbon footprint. Companies can also test different business scenarios.
- Source: Environmental Leader
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BT Offers IT Carbon-footprint Assessments (25-Sep-07)
BT's Global Services is offering carbon-footprint assessments to help large corporate and public-sector organizations reduce their energy consumption.
The assessments will calculate the amount of CO2 emissions produced as a result of an organization's networked IT services, and develop alternative solutions that use less energy. As well as the energy used by office buildings and other infrastructure, work patterns, including staff travel and IT use, will be assessed.
The offering will let companies work out how much of a positive environmental impact they could make by virtualizing their call centers or holding teleconferences instead of meetings. "Large organizations have many activities that can directly or indirectly cause the emissions of carbon," said Dinah McLeod, head of the sustainability practice at BT Global Services. "BT can credibly and demonstrably help a customer understand the role networked IT services play in both producing and reducing carbon footprint."
This is consultancy, of course, so the service will look at the "behavioral change" required of users. It will also promote BT's business directly, since moves to virtualized call centers and teleconferences, for example, all replace travel with telecoms.
However, BT does have a decent track record in sustainability, having reduced its emissions in the United Kingdom by 60 percent since 1996 and having used green power since 2004. A combined contract with npower and British Gas provides the telecoms company with one terawatt hour (TWh) of renewable energy and 1.2TWh of combined heat and power a year.
- Source ZD Net Asia
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BT Launches Service to Help Organisations Reduce Energy Consumption (20-Sep-07)
The newly formed Global Services sustainability practice for BT has launched a service to help large corporate and public sector organizations to reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint.
With BT’s carbon impact assessment, organizations are able to accurately calculate the amount of CO2 emissions produced as a result of the use of networked IT services. It also provides a set of workable solutions to assist customers in reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint.
Initially available in the UK and USA, the BT carbon impact assessment takes into account the way work patterns contribute to CO2 emissions, and how business operations, shared services and building infrastructure add to an organization’s carbon footprint.
The strength of the approach enables a number of business scenarios to be tested and an assessment made of the associated energy and carbon reduction, including,” What if I virtualized all or part of my call center?"; "What if I introduced agile working?"; and "What if people didn't need to travel to meetings?"
Scott Cain, head of IT transformation, BT Global Services, said in a Thursday statement: "Large organizations have many activities that can directly or indirectly cause the emissions of carbon. BT can credibly and demonstrably help a customer understand the role networked IT services plays in both producing and reducing carbon footprint.”
“Importantly, when looking at clients' carbon emissions, we explore both the required behavior change as well as any adjustments to their infrastructure. Many of our customers have yet to mobilize significantly in this area and can benefit from BT's learning and capabilities to help them in their development of more sustainable business solutions," Cain added.
BT has been recognized as the world number one telco in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the seventh consecutive year. The company has also achieved a 60 percent reduction of its UK carbon emissions from a 1996 baseline.
The company has set an additional target to reduce emissions by 80 percent from the 1996 baseline by 2016. BT’s Group-wide Climate Change strategy has four key strands, which include reducing carbon emissions, influencing suppliers, influencing customers and engaging employees.
BT has effectively set the standard for telcos to follow considering moves that have environmental impact. As global warming and other ‘green’ initiatives have garnered increased attention, taking such as stand with gain significant publicity for the company that can help form a new perspective in the customer’s mind. Such a strategy not only makes good business sense, it is in effect, doing something good for everyone.
- Source TMC Green Technology World
