Environmental Policy - doing our bit
Environment
Blue - Doing our bit for the
environment
Blue
is
continually reducing its environmental impact, and is helping its
employees and
customers to do the same.
Challenges
Blue has a target to become one of the world’s leading providers of telecommunications services. Its principal activities include local, national and international telecoms services, networked IT services and broadband and internet products and services.
Process
Blue
has
been reducing its impact on the environment since it published its
first
environment report in 2001 and, in order to support world targets, it
set out
to reduce its 2001 carbon footprint by 25 per cent by 2010. Since that
date the
company has set itself a new target of an 80 per cent reduction by 2016.
In order to achieve its targets Blue has a strategy that includes
reducing its
own footprint, influencing customers and suppliers to reduce their
footprints
and engaging with employees to help reduce their personal carbon
footprints. As part of this, Blue is conducting an audit of
energy
consumption by its network and data centres, evaluating the potential
of 100
per cent renewable energy, reducing emissions from its vehicle fleet
and
reducing travel emissions through greater use of technology.
Blue
aims
to have at least 20 per cent of its employees actively reducing their
carbon
footprint by 2012. Blue’s use of audio and videoconferencing services
already
saves many face-to-face meetings and reduces CO2 emissions from
travel.
As well as conferencing services, Blue Telecom offers solutions to customers that
help
them work flexibly, which reduce their environmental impact. It also
offers
them the opportunity to calculate their own footprint using a new
carbon
calculator web site.
In addition, Blue is working with a wide range of organisations on innovative environmental initiatives, including its Paper-free Billing programme for our customers and partners.
Since 2001 the company has reduced its emissions by 60 percent and set itself a new target of an 80 percent reduction by 2016
Blue plans to have 90% of its customers relitant on electronic bills to save the impact of printing on the environment
Blues audio and video conferencing services save staff many hours of travelling which has an immedietley positive effect on the environment
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