By Alex Scroxton
23 September 2008
Dimension Data has submitted a report to the Carbon
Disclosure Project (CDP6) disclosing its greenhouse gas emissions and its plans
to combat climate change as part of an attempt to ‘baseline’ its global
carbon footprint.
Didata was one of 3,000 companies asked to submit
information on their carbon emissions during 2008 and as a result has brought
PricewaterhouseCoopers on board for an internal green audit. As part of the
process it claims its virtualised US data centre operation has
reduced its energy consumption by 50%, and its European telephony environment
has been consolidated from eight locations and 30 servers to two sites and six
servers.
“Our long-term objective centres on implementing an
Environmental Management System to establish a process and governance framework
for our global operations, which currently extend across 47 countries,” said
Didata global sustainability lead Merle Singer.
Didata has also developed a series of consultancy solutions
aimed at its customers, dubbed Office Sustainability Services, designed to help
organisations ‘build and execute’ a response to climate change, according to
Singer.
