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These days, everyone is trumpeting their environmental credentials.
The number of CarbonNeutral office suppliers is increasing month by month,
while nobody seems to have a website without an environmental policy clearly visible.
With so many claims out there, how do you tell which is really doing what it says?
The difference is simple – some companies talk the talk, others walk it as well. With Commercial our CSR policy is not an add-on that we have just for tenders – it is something integrated into our business.
As Arthur, our Managing Director, said at our CSR Day in 2009 in front of over 200 business leaders, “we are a responsible business
– responsible to our customers, to our suppliers, to our community and to the wider world, because by caring for our environment, we are ensuring that we will continue to operate successfully in the future.”
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For us, the pivotal point was when Simone Mann, a Founding Director,
was invited by one of our largest customers, Sky, to an audience with Al Gore.
From that moment on she committed us to lead the way in combating climate change.
“Our vision was to embrace our necessary role in helping climate
change and to become ambassadors for the solutions to
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Carbon Neutral
Our environmental journey started with our first mission; to become CarbonNeutral which we achieved in 2006 following rigorous assessment.
After measuring our carbon emissions we looked at ways of reducing them.
Measures such as switching to a green energy supplier, our dynamic routing system,
running the van fleet on biodiesel, encouraging car-sharing and a cycle to work scheme
were implemented. In all, we’ve reduced our carbon emissions by a half, and are on
target to reduce them by three quarters by 2010.
We have offset our unavoidable emissions by purchasing Gold Standard Carbon Credits from a number of carefully selected carbon reduction schemes, audited by KPMG.
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Al Gore recently conferred an Ashden Award for Outstanding Achievement on one of our projects for “demonstrating that it is possible to run a renewable energy business, which is both a striking commercial success, and which lifts people out of poverty, too”
At the same time, our Green Apple Award winning waste reduction programme has already reduced our waste to landfill by 88.5% through a focus on waste reduction and reuse.
We are really keen to share our experience with others, and have run seminars for customers and suppliers to help them reduce their own carbon emissions, as well as an annual CSR Day. If you would like us to help you, please call your account manager. |
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