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ICT’s vast potential for carbon abatement
ICT has the potential
to enable the abatement
of 9.1Gt CO2e per annum
SMARTer 2020 report
Response by ICT industry
BT’s response
ICT could cut projected
global GHG emissions
by 16.5%
Improvements in
energy efficiency
$1.9tn in energy/fuel savings
Development of new
products and services
Adopt the SMART 2020
strategy and continue to cut
our own emissions and help
our customers cut their
emissions through our
products & services
7x the ICT sector emissions
ICT potential first estimated
by The Climate Group’s
SMART 2020 report
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BT Net Good: Part of a wider business
& sustainability strategy
Our strategy
Better Future
Our Programmes
Being a responsible &
sustainable business
leader is one of BT’s six
strategic priorities to
grow the value of our
business.
We’re focusing on
integrating sustainability
into everything we do.
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Our Better Future
programme is our
commitment to use the
power of communication
to improve lives and
ways of doing business
without costing
the earth.
Connected
Society
Improving
Lives
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BT has already built a strong track record
in carbon measurement & management
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Global resource challenges
Net Good vision
Our Net Good vision
is to help society live
within the constraints
of our planet’s
resources through
our products
and people
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The 2020 3:1 goal: Net Good vision into practice
Our 2020 goal puts the Net Good vision into practice for our most material environmental impact:
energy & carbon. It brings together all the components of our impact, and links revenue growth
to carbon abatement.
BT
Existing
and future
products
and services
3:1
We will help
customers
reduce carbon
emissions by at
least three
times…
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Abatement
potential
for customers
:
… BT’s own carbon
emissions
Upstream
(suppliers)
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Downstream
(CPE)
Carbon impact
of BT’s business
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End to end carbon impact methodology
Upstream/Supply chain
(64%)
Own operations
(8%)
Downstream
(28%)
Spend based Environmentally Extended
Input-Output Analysis
Measured actuals
Calculated based on product
volumes and consumption metrics
Upstream reductions
Own operations reductions
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Abatement Methodology
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Identify BT products/services with carbon abatement potential
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For each, develop unit carbon abatement metric based on a case study or report
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Assess total carbon abatement achieved through applying product volumes
∑
Carbon
saved
Case Study
Report
X
Product
volumes
=
Total
carbon
abatement
Current
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Abatement Pathway
3:1
1:1
2013
2020
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The 3:1 methodology: A transparent, open
source approach
Transparency
Robust
reporting
on targets
Independent
verification &
endorsement
BT’s approach
Available
to other
businesses
Learn from
feedback
Engage
stakeholders
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The 3:1 methodology: External endorsement
Ensuring robustness
BT asked the Carbon Trust and Camanoe Associates (researchers
from MIT) to endorse both the methodology and BT’s assumptions
Endorsement
Carbon Trust and Camanoe Associates reviewed the
Scope 1,2 & 3 measurement approach and the approach
to measuring carbon abatement on a product by product basis,
evaluating 15 products and services in total
After establishing a firm understanding of the product or service,
Carbon Trust and Camanoe Associates looked at the carbon footprint
model including the approach and assumptions; the carbon factor,
their values and the data sources used in the calculations
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The 3:1 methodology:
Examples of carbon abatement
Telecommuting
Flexible
Working
Services
No of
home workers
(ONS data)
Proportion enabled
by BT broadband
Carbon saving/
telecommuter [ACI
Study, Yankee Group
Study, BT Study]
No of Contracts/year
Desk / office space
saving per contract
[from analysis of
existing contracts]
Carbon saving due
to office heating /
lighting energy
savings
Audioconferencing
Number of BT
conference calls
per year
Carbon saving per
call [University of
Bradford Study]
No of Contracts/year
Energy saving per
contract [from
analysis of BT
savings and analysis
of potential contracts]
Carbon saving due
to energy savings
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Integrated
Energy
Management
Services
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The 3:1 methodology: Engaging stakeholders
to evolve our approach
Following the review
BT worked with The Climate
Group and The Carbon Trust
on a stakeholder consultation
to gather further feedback
from industry experts.
Feedback
The feedback from the
consultation and today’s
launch event organized by
The Climate Group will be
used to further evolve
the methodology.
As an extension of our open
sourced approach we’ll be
inviting further comment/ critique
at an online forum on 2 July.
The Better Future Forum will be
an opportunity for BT to share its
experience so far and learn from
others through open discussions,
independently moderated.
We have made the methodology
available via our website
& we’ll be inviting suggestions
for further improvements.
Consultation
Online Forum
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