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Like most other corporations, Alcatel-Lucent is publicly committed to having “eco-efficient operations,” as stated in its 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility report. In 2008 the company measured its CO2 emissions, and committed to reducing its current global annual output of about 1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions by half by 2020. To reduce its energy use, Alcatel-Lucent is taking the usual ...
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Organizations across the United Kingdom continue to prepare for their participation in the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). The legislation is due to be passed into law by early 2010 and will make the UK government the first to instigate a scheme of this nature to address the growing problem of carbon emissions and adverse climate change.
The ...
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Bell Labs, a division of Alcatel-Lucent, recently launched Green Touch, a consortium of experts from the information and
communications technology (ICT) industry, academia and non-governmental research organizations. The consortium is dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, ...
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Implications of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) are far-reaching and will apply both within the public and private sectors across the United Kingdom. About 20,000 organisations will likely be affected, based on how much electricity they consumed in the baseline year of 2008. The scheme has a number of detailed reporting and compliance requirements, as well as potential financial and ...
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This white paper offers an explanation of the challenges and opportuni- ties inherent to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation. First, we will explain the CRC carbon reporting regulation in some depth. Second, we will then communicate this information in the context of a hypothetical company ABC plc.
As will be seen from the scenarios presented, organisations must keep accurate ...
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