Our responsibility: Minimise as far as possible the environmental impacts associated with our business and enable employee participation, with a particular concentration on the reduction of energy use and its effect on global warming.
The growth in our business conspires to push up our energy demand and the associated CO2 emissions. We strive to keep them down through a programme of steady energy efficiency improvements and have set a target for reduction, which is included in our CR report together with a review of our performance against this target year on year.
Energy reduction measures include the installation of voltage trimmers, sensor-controlled lighting and energy reduction campaigns involving our people. Where we can, we buy renewable energy.
We know that our data centres represent a large proportion of our carbon footprint, so we have made specific investments to contribute energy and cost savings, improving the efficiency of our cooling systems and optimising servers. We are also improving the transparency of our report information regarding data centres and regional energy data.
We scrutinise the need for travel and incentivise our people to share cars and cycle and walk to work. Home office facilities and flexible hours mean people can travel less frequently.
Through our facilities managers and a network of enthusiastic environmental champions, we are driving a series of projects to further tackle energy use, water and waste. All over the world we are collecting materials for recycling, doing what we can to further minimise our global environmental impact. And we’re looking at what our clients and suppliers are doing, informing, incentivising and sharing best practice up and down the supply chain.