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Today, organisations have to manage their carbon footprints as effectively as their bottom lines.
But what's really in it for them? IBM can show you how carbon reduction can actually lead to growth and profit.
IBM's Energy & Environment Framework is a structured, holistic way to help you create and carry out effective plans to reduce carbon in your business. And at the same time, reveal short and long-term opportunities to thrive and develop.
IBM has the tools and methods to work inside any business area. See what we do in each one:
- The Introduction of the IBM Energy & Environment Framework - A framework to help organisations address carbon (368 KB)
- Making advances in Carbon Management - Best practice from the Carbon Information Leaders a joint CDP and IBM Study (376 KB)This study covers one of the biggest long term campaigns facing business leaders today. During March and April 2008, eleven carbon leaders co-operated in sharing information about how they gather their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data, what they measure, how far they have gone in the process, and what the experience has been like.
Strategy
How can you turn carbon reduction into a business advantage?
To successfully turn carbon reductions into genuine advantages, climate change and business strategies must work smoothly together. Find out where to focus your carbon reduction efforts and how to finance your carbon initiatives.
The Challenges
- What do you want to achieve by your energy and environment efficiency efforts?
- How integrated is your energy efficiency strategy with your overall business strategy?
- Do you have an integrated programme of action?
- How do you finance your energy efficiency programme?
IBM's Solutions Include
- Carbon Management Diagnostics
- IBM financing for carbon management programmes
Product
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How can you design products and services to participate in a low carbon economy?
Customers are more and more influenced by carbon footprints when they purchase. And suppliers are obliged to meet new legislation to stay in business. The winners will be those who can combine the two. Learn how to develop and produce goods and services that are tangibly greener than competitors.
The Challenges
- What are the new green market opportunities and how can you exploit them?
- How can you design your products and services to be more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly?
- How do you optimise these benefits throughout the full product lifecycle?
IBM's Solutions Include
- Strategy development for new markets
- Product carbon footprint capability
- Design of IBM technology and innovation into clients' products
- Deep Thunder
- Visualisation and modelling
- Vendor financing programme
- Certification of recycling of client infrastructure
- Green communications strategy development
Business operations
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How do you make your operations more carbon friendly and cost efficient?
Reduce carbon in your end-to-end operations, and right across your supply chain. From manufacturing to transport and logistics, search out carbon 'hotspots' and improve energy efficiency.
The Challenges
- How can you make your end-to-end operations more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly?
- Supply Chain: Procurement, Logistics, Warehouse, Manufacturing
- CRM: Targeting / Segmentation, Sales
- Waste and Recycling
- How do you communicate your green credentials (Branding, Marketing, Communications)?
IBM's Solutions Include
- Green supply chain strategy
- Energy efficiency studies for manufacturing operations
- Process optimisation
- Carbon optimisation for transport and logistics
- Fleet optimisation telematics
- Green procurement strategy and ethical sourcing
- Equipment disposal processes
- Green Sigma
- IBM's leadership with environmentally responsible suppliers and global environmental management system
- Green Sigma - How to Optimize Your Carbon Management Through Green Sigma (106 KB)
- Mastering carbon management, Balancing trade-offs to optimize supply chain efficiencies (242 KB)
- Intelligent Utility Network (287 KB)
People
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How do you engage employees and sustain behaviour change?
Involve employees, consumers, suppliers and even the public at large in carbon management. And see their collective efforts turn into savings, new initiatives and greener habits in everyone's daily lives - from daily commuting to business housekeeping.
The Challenges
- How do you establish and implement effective green HR policies regarding travel, workplace, collaboration?
- How do you engage with your employees, your business and alliance partners on the green agenda?
- How do you enable and sustain behaviour change across your organisation?
IBM's Solutions Include
- HR Diagnostics
- Telepresence Services
- Collaboration Tools
- Travel Footprinting
- Travel Management
- Workforce Transformation
- Tangible Culture
- Employee Engagement Programmes To Support Carbon Strategy
IT
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How can you optimise IT and lower energy costs?
Generally, IT is operated very inefficiently from an energy standpoint. It has not been a concern. But this all changes as we need to achieve new carbon reduction targets, as energy prices increase, as we are energy constrained and we need to deliver more IT for less energy.
Identify which areas of IT will provide your organisation with the best opportunities to reduce carbon. Then implement the changes to get more computing power per unit of energy.
The Challenges
- How do you integrate energy efficiency and environment management into an IT Strategy?
- How do you identify which areas of IT provide the greatest opportunities for energy efficiency?
- How do you reduce and minimise energy consumption in each area of IT - both now and in the future?
- How can you optimise to get more IT capacity for less energy?
- How can you address immediate capacity/power issues?
IBM's Solutions Include
- IT carbon strategy study
- Tivoli carbon assessment review
- IT optimisation study
- Three step IT asset lifecycle management
- Data centre energy efficiency assessment
- Data centre thermal analysis
- Server consolidation and CO2 Footprint study
- Storage and data priority assessment
- Virtualisation technology
- Energy efficient IBM servers and storage technology
- Scalable modular data centre
- Distributed IT energy efficiency assessment
- Output management optimisation service
- End user virtualisation business case assessment
- Virtual client technology
- Unified communications and collaboration
- IBM Project Big Green - New and easy steps to a green data center (US)
- IT and The Environment - a new item on the CIO's agenda. A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (242 KB)
- Cutting the Carbon Footprint of IT - a study with the support of Defra (902 KB)
- Carbon Counting - Measure and manage the carbon footprint of your IT (83 KB)
- Managing storage growth - Streamline data management policies and improve energy efficiency (101 KB)
- Putting the brakes on data-centre sprawl - Tackling the growing carbon footprint on your data centre (97 KB)
- Green IT Assessment Tool
Property
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How can you reduce carbon across a property portfolio?
Start creating a more sustainable property portfolio. As a start to strategic decision-making, take a carbon property audit that ranks your buildings on fuel economy, waste and water use.
The Challenges
- How do you manage energy efficiency in:
- Buildings, offices and branches?
- Production plants?
- Distribution centres and stores?
- How does the property portfolio contribute to your carbon footprint and ecological balance sheet? And how can you improve it?
- How do you work towards a more sustainable property portfolio?
IBM's Solutions Include
- Property carbon audit, including "EcoRank" ranks client's buildings on overall sustainability score (carbon, waste and water use), allowing strategic decisions to be taken as a result
- Sustainable property portfolio analysis
- Sustainable property procurement
- Workplace transformation
- Process and organisation optimisation
- Integrated Technology for building management
Information
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How do you measure, manage and use carbon information?
Accurately measure and assess the carbon footprint of all your business areas. And turn that information into cogent, manageable data on which to build an effective and profitable carbon reduction action plan.
The Challenges
- How do you measure and monitor information on carbon consistently and efficiently?
- How do you demonstrate regulatory and policy compliance?
- Do you have an energy efficiency scorecard and key performance?
IBM's Solutions Include
- Carbon balanced scorecard
- Carbon information system
- IBM Director/Active Energy Manager
- System z Gaz meter
- GARS certification of compliance with EU guidelines on equipment disposal and recycling
- Certified used equipment
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