Companies are increasingly making an effort to reduce their carbon footprint, some more proactively than others in order to reduce their contribution to global climate change.
A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).
SAP has reduced its worldwide CO2 emissions from 120 kilotons to 115 kilotons since Q
2.This is quite an achievement considering the surge in the business travel in light of the economic recovery. It comes down to their efforts to reduce their energy consumption supported by increased levels of renewable electricity being purchased by them. Renewable electricity now accounts for 50% of their global electricity usage.
The objective for 2010 is to stay below 460 kilotons and achieve this they will need to continue to compensate for travel needs.
Last year SAP announced their aggressive commitment to reduce its total carbon emissions to the year 200 emissions level of approximately 274 kilotons by the year 2020. This represents an overall reduction of about half compared to the company’s year-2007 peak levels of 540 kilotons.
To help reach this goal, SAP is using the SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand solution to access and analyze emissions data across its entire operations and evaluate its carbon footprint reduction efforts. SAP identified several key areas for implementing carbon-efficient operations, including travel, data centers, buildings and commitment to renewable energy.
Detailed emissions data are available to the public in the SAP sustainability report and are updated quarterly.
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