AT&T Forms Business Sustainability Advisory Council
AT&T recently announced it has formed a business sustainability advisory council dedicated to advising AT&T on the powerful linkage between information and communications technology (ICT) and helping customers minimize the environmental impact of their operations.
In addition to AT&T, representatives from the Carbon Disclosure Project, Cisco Systems, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the University of Colorado Denver, and University of Texas at Austin have agreed to join the AT&T Business Sustainability Advisory Council, with a number of additional organizations expected to be added soon.
The council will work to further the cause of measurement, methodologies and technology use cases to help business customers better quantify the impact of ICT-enabled solutions for greenhouse gas reduction.
By arming companies with this information, the council aims to help businesses make smarter sustainability choices and investments and better prepare for potential environmental regulation.
Members of the AT&T Business Sustainability Advisory Council will work together to further study, build upon, and validate the findings of the SMART 2020 report developed by The Climate Group and the Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI), which identified ICT-enabled solutions with the potential to reduce CO2e emissions by up to 15 percent worldwide annually by 2020.
Concurrent with the formation of the AT&T Business Sustainability Advisory Council, AT&T also recently released a white paper that builds upon the GeSI report. Entitled Networking for Sustainability: the Network Offset Effect, the white paper describes the positive sustainability value creation that can occur when companies migrate their business activities/operations onto a network and reduce their dependence on hardware and other systems that are potential sources of CO2e emissions. The white paper explores AT&T solutions across a broad spectrum of application areas that can enable business customers to reduce their carbon emissions while running their businesses more efficiently, effectively and profitably.
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