Reducing Carbon: BT

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Reducing Carbon BTs approach to tackling
climate change
Mike Blackburn BT Regional Director North West
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BTs Climate Change agenda

• The BT climate change experience and credentials
• Our progress to date
• BTs 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

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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
• BTs CSR activity in the North West exceeded 1
  million
• last year

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Climate Changewere 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
• BTs CO2 emissions are 60 lower than the 1996
  level
• BT became the worlds 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.
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Our progress to date - Emissions
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Our progress to date - Waste recycling
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Important climate change role for ICT
12,500 home workers for BT
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Sharing best practise in the North West
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• 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

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BTs wind power project

• Overall aim 25 of BTs current electricity
  requirements from wind generation capacity by
  2016.
• The first phase operational by 2012
• 10 of BTs electricity requirements
• 100MW of wind turbine capacity
• 50 x 2MW wind turbines
• Enough to power 50,000 homes.

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Wind power isnt BT core business ..
External Partner(s) Input
BT Input
Minority Equity Stake
Majority Equity Stake
Venture Partners
Sites
Windfarm experience
Debt financing
Energy Purchase

• Advantages for BT
• Accesses non-core skills
• Off balance sheet

• Advantages for Partner(s)
• Significant opportunity
• Risk sharing

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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
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Renewables
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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!
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Low carbon consumer products
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ICT and a low-carbon economy

• Paper-free billing
• Sustainable lifestyles film

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Carbon calculator
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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

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Climate change website
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Carbon busters Carbon clubs

• Support BTs environmental champions
• Collect environmental data
• Communicate messages to colleagues
• Recruit Carbon Club members

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Creative Challenge - climate change award

• Open to BT people and the London College
• of Communication
• Creative campaign to communicate
• climate change to BTs customers using
• Film
• Creative writing
• Marketing/ advertising/ PR campaign
• Event
• Interior design
• Computer game
• And more
• - 3,000 prize and concept execution if
  appropriate

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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. Its 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 ODonnell, BT Global head of data
centres.
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Green Basket employee offers
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Additional information

• For further information please visit
• www.bt.com/btregions
• www.bt.com/climatechange
• www.bt.com/betterworld
• http//www.nwda.co.uk
• http//www.climatechangenorthwest.com