Transcript Mike Blackburn, BT Presentation to the Climate Change

Reducing Carbon: BT’s approach to tackling
climate change
Mike Blackburn
BT Regional Director
North West
BTs Climate Change agenda
• The BT climate change experience and credentials
• Our progress to date
• BT’s partnership capabilities and collaboration with
suppliers and customers
• Influencing BT employees and creating an open forum
• The challenge – act now in partnership and for future
generations
BT is making a major contribution in the North
West – Economic Impact 2006
• BT directly employs over 9,200 people in the North West
• BT makes a financial impact of over £1.6 billion a year in
the region
• BT spends over £641 million a year with local suppliers
• BT has invested in four new ‘state of the art’ contact centres
in Blackburn, Lancaster, Skelmersdale and Warrington
• BT is making a capital investment of £830 million, replacing
equipment at more than 375 exchanges by 2011 in the
North West as part of its 21CN initiative
• BT’s CSR activity in the North West exceeded £1 million
last year
Climate Change…we’re not new to this…
• BT rated No1 in the Dow Jones Global Sustainability Index for the last five years
• BT published its first Environment Report in 1992
• BT’s CO2 emissions are 60% lower than the 1996 level
• BT became the world’s biggest user of green energy in 2004
• BT uses micro wind turbines for renewable electricity at some of its sites
• Broadband use enables 80% of BT staff to work flexibly – the role for
communications in beating congestion
Did you know?
The UK suffers
from the worst
Traffic congestion
in Europe.
Our progress to date - Emissions
Tonnes CO2
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
96/97
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
Direct Combustion Purchased Electricity Business Travel
Our progress to date - Waste & recycling
Important climate change role for ICT
12,500 home workers for BT
Sharing best practise in the North West
“If we are to effectively combat climate change,
everyone - government, business and individuals
alike - must play a part. I am particularly pleased
that BT is working with both its customers and
internal staff to make a difference, which
supports the government's efforts to help people
change their behaviour at home and at work to
stop climate change."
David Miliband, Environment Secretary
BT’s wind power project
Overall aim: 25% of BT’s current electricity
requirements from wind generation capacity
by 2016.
The first phase – operational by 2012:
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10% of BT’s electricity requirements
100MW of wind turbine capacity
50 x 2MW wind turbines
Enough to power 50,000 homes.
Wind power isn’t BT core business …..
External Partner(s) Input
BT Input
Minority Equity Stake
Sites
Majority Equity Stake
Venture
Partners
Energy Purchase
Windfarm experience
Debt financing
Advantages for BT
Advantages for Partner(s)
• Accesses non-core skills
• Off balance sheet
• Significant opportunity
• Risk sharing
Reducing our carbon footprint
• Extended our green
energy contract to 2010
• Review our energy
supply – further wind
options
• Audit the energy used by
our data centres
Low energy data
centres
Renewables
Collaboration with suppliers
• New consumer products with
energy efficiency targets
(BT Vision, Home hub &
cordless phone)
• Eco-labels
• Reduced packaging
• Embedding eco-design and life-cycle thinking into
product development
• Investigate alternative materials (bio-plastics,
elimination of batteries), RFID tagging, product
leasing, and more…
• Networked IT products
Low energy …. everything!
Low carbon consumer products
ICT and a low-carbon economy
• Paper-free billing
• Sustainable lifestyles film
Carbon calculator
Engaging 104,000 BT people
By 2009, we aim to have at least 20% of our
employees
actively reducing their carbon footprint at work and at
home
Climate change website
Carbon busters & Carbon clubs
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Support BT’s environmental champions
Collect environmental data
Communicate messages to colleagues
Recruit Carbon Club members
Creative Challenge - climate change award
- Open to BT people and the London College
of Communication
- Creative campaign to communicate
climate change to BT’s customers using:
• Film
• Creative writing
• Marketing/ advertising/ PR campaign
• Event
• Interior design
• Computer game
• And more…
- £3,000 prize and concept execution if appropriate
Big Switch Off – BT intranet
“If everyone switched off their
PCs, screens, faxes and
printers when they were not
being used, BT would save
£500,000 a year on its
electricity bills. It’s all about
getting people to think about
how every action they take can
have an impact on climate
change, in the home and at
work.” Steve O’Donnell, BT
Global head of data centres.
Green Basket – employee offers
Additional information
For further information please visit:
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www.bt.com/btregions
www.bt.com/climatechange
www.bt.com/betterworld
http://www.nwda.co.uk
http://www.climatechangenorthwest.com