Protecting our environment

We are committed to building a sustainable business. Keeping a close eye on environmental metrics and hitting the targets we’ve set ourselves demonstrates to our clients that we practice what we preach. In 2011 we made the Carbon Disclosure Project’s leadership index for a fourth year running, and they recognised us as a global leader in IT services in their FTSE 350 report for our environmental programme.

Excess carbon equals excess cost – so by operating as efficiently as possible we deliver the best return on investment to our shareholders. In 2011, two thirds of our emissions were generated by travel. We have enabled ‘smart working’ in a number of our regions, so people can work from home or in the office and use advanced conferencing tools to save travelling to meetings. This saved our UK business £10 million over two years and made an important contribution to our long term group target of reducing absolute emissions by 50% by 2020.

We take insights and innovation from our own environment programme into our sustainability services which save our clients’ money too. This is what excites us most. The sustainability services we offer our clients help us to create innovative low carbon products and services for their consumers. But it’s also where we can make the greatest positive impact on protecting the environment. For example, the annual carbon savings we have achieved for just one of our clients through a Green IT project amounts to 16% of our own carbon footprint. This is where our real opportunity to help the environment lies.

Logica’s commitment to a sustainable ecosystem continues. Our journey for the year has been captured in the Corporate Responsibility 2011 Report.