Small changes can mean big benefits

Three important purchasing criteria for your customers are; performance, cost, and green credentials. BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment provides the means to address all three of these criteria and boost your competitive advantage. Assessing the carbon footprint of your organisation helps identify the most effective steps to reducing it.

A proven track record in greening our operations

BT is a recognised leader in the field of sustainability.

We have been ranked the leader in the telecommunication sector by the Dow Jones Sustainability index for seven years in a row.
BT was awarded the Business in the Community Company of the Year Award 2007.

“BT is one of the early movers in this area (climate change) and its track record is excellent. BT is one of the very few companies to have reduced its overall emissions while growing the business. It has adopted a positive approach and is looking for solutions for itself and for customers. If everyone was doing what BT is doing, we’d be on our way to solving the climate problem.”
– Jorgen Randers, academic, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo.

Helping you reduce your carbon impact

A rigorous assessment of your carbon footprint can help identify the most effective areas for improvement, offering benefits of reduced environmental impact, greater credibility in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR), lower costs and improved efficiency.

BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment can help you:

Create a business case showing how lowering energy consumption and carbon emissions can reduce your operating costs.
Change behaviours by adopting smarter and more energy- and cost-effective ways of working.
Develop a roadmap to evolve your infrastructure to promote sustainability, including data centre consolidation, shared services, and tools for remote working and collaboration.
Help prepare you for future regulation changes.

Networked IT services solutions to help your organisation reduce emissions offer a number of benefits:

ICT is the frequent subject of procurements (unlike buildings or vehicles) so is something that you can start with today.
Relatively small changes can have a large impact, improve business performance and reduce costs.
Changes can be a catalyst for behavioural change.

Accurate measurement points to right solutions

Carbon Impact Assessment and subsequent carbon footprint-reducing solutions can deliver:

Reduced energy use, with lower costs
Reduction or elimination of unnecessary travel
More efficient working
Lower real estate costs

BT has achieved savings and efficiencies both internally and for its clients through carbon-cutting networked IT services. For example:

BT has saved over 725m euros per annum in real estate costs through its Workstyle flexible working programme.
A branded telephone conferencing service helped UK retailer Tesco reduce its travel costs by more than £10m a year while improving staff productivity by 18 percent.

Cutting carbon emissions can equal greater efficiency

BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment can help identify potential savings in carbon emissions by the deployment of BT products and services. They can also deliver reduced operating costs and improved staff productivity.

The impact of recommended changes and solutions can be accurately measured. This enables you to verify achievable benefits as well as implementing more effective ongoing management of your networked IT services portfolio – both fixed and mobile – and its associated carbon footprint and costs.

Our networked IT services demonstrably reduce carbon emissions, can save costs, and help improve productivity.

Within BT, teleconferencing has eliminated 859,784 face-to-face meetings annually, saving:

97,268 tonnes of carbon emissions
£135m a year in travel costs
£103m in annual productivity gains