BT launches carbon assessment service (20-Sep-07)
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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.
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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.
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