Green IT
8-point program for an environmentally friendly IT infrastructure
In 2009, we adopted an 8-point program to accelerate the implementation of an environmentally friendly IT infrastructure. This is an important contribution to our objective of achieving carbon neutrality from 2013 onwards.
A large share of greenhouse gas emissions is due to the use of IT systems. One key element of the 8-point program is to ensure that the IT applications and infrastructure we use will be as environmentally friendly and resource efficient as possible during their whole life cycle. We actively seek opportunities to use the latest technology in order to reduce CO2 emissions and paper consumption, and to improve significantly our IT energy efficiency.
We want to quadruple the energy efficiency in our large data centers and to halve the energy consumed by IT activities in our offices by the end of 2012.