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ext month, (CSR), including carbon implementation issues as submitted through quite
the United accounting and reduction well as technical ones. a bureaucratic process,
Nations Climate strategies, will begin Employees often need more which is deliberately made
Change Conference in to come into force in than a new set of guidelines difficult, to make employees
Copenhagen will create April next year for the to adopt new working explain why they can’t
many hundreds of column largest 5,000 companies. practices, and solutions use technology to hold a
inches about sustainability Confusion over the bill need to be discussed during meeting rather than travel.”
issues, reports Adam Oxford. and the practicability and the planning phases with a
Telecoms may not make effectiveness of the ‘cap client. Silvester, for example, The benefits are worthwhile,
the mainstream headlines and trade’ practices mean claims that her company Silvester argues, since a
as part of the discussions, that many enterprises has reduced energy 10 per cent reduction
but it will certainly feature are still unprepared for its consumption by 19 per cent in travel costs equates
in the debate. “Information ramifications, presenting over the last two years. to £6.5 million a year for
technologies contribute an opportunity for resellers Unified communications the company, and the
two-three per cent of global to open discussions now.
Juliet Silvester
and videoconferencing equivalent CO2 production
greenhouse emissions,” UN considerations returning have a vital role to play of a power station for 2,000
Secretary General Ban Ki- Whether or not large to the decision making in Fujitsu’s strategy, but homes. Another area that
moon told the International enterprises are successfully process for enterprise changing employee will become increasingly
Telecommunications Union preparing for CSR, the telecoms. “Customers behaviour has required important for telecoms
in Geneva in October. message that improving really want to hear about more than simply making resellers as PBXs migrate
“But it can also reduce environmental efficiency cost savings now,” says the technology available. to software solutions, for
emissions in other sectors complements rather than Juliet Silvester, Head of example, is the question
by at least 15 per cent.” counters cost saving Environmental Programmes “We’re a technology of server and data centre
strategies is raising its profile at Fujitsu. “Especially when company,” says Silvester. design. Mitel, thanks to a
In the UK, the climate in financing discussions. they help them reach “So we say to our staff... partnership with VMware,
question will become even Britain may still be in environmental objectives.” ‘use the technology can now virtualise phone
more pressing for IT directors the grip of the longest before you travel’. systems for first time. This,
in the enterprise when new recession of modern Programmes designed to We’ve introduced it’s claimed, will reduce
legislation for Corporate times, but that hasn’t improve carbon efficiency travel application forms the number of servers, and
Social Responsibility stopped environmental need to take into account which have to be therefore energy required.
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