The IT industry prides itself on innovation and collaboration; always striving for new heights and shattering old benchmarks for power and speed. These technology developments empower us and the benefits are almost immeasurable. In contrast the need to reduce our carbon footprint is self-evident. There is an urgent need to address the industry’s processes, and businesses and government need to take steps to minimise CO2 emissions.
Sumillion look to meet the needs of business without compromising the environment, by providing IT solutions which are of the highest-quality, reliability, made using sustainable materials, keep plastics out of our oceans, and keeping carbon-heavy activities and products to a minimum. We build partnerships with manufacturers and vendors who address sustainability and make efforts minimise environmental impact and consider the entire lifecycle of their products.
We recognise that almost everything we do produces carbon emissions and we’re taking steps to reduce our carbon footprint. We encourage environmentally conscious practices in the office and at home, including walking or cycling whenever practical, following Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and using E-Vehicles. We acknowledge that we’re part of a much larger industry which has a huge impact on the climate. Therefore it became clear that we should look at offsetting our carbon footprint and become a certified carbon-neutral organisation.
Why become a Certified Carbon Neutral Business?
Anything we can do to reduce carbon emissions is important. By certifying our Carbon Neutral status we commit to being held accountable on both how we emit carbon, and how we offset that carbon footprint. We commit to continuous improvement in measuring, reducing, and offsetting our business’s greenhouse gas emissions.
For us, certification is a recognisable sign of our company’s sustainability action.
To become certified as carbon neutral, we share complete insight into our operations and actively take on activities that nullify any emissions we produce. This means that we plant trees, invest in climate change activities and support initiatives that reduce carbon emissions to offset ours.
Through Positive Planet, anyone can look at our Company Dashboard. We are open and transparent, and you can see what our organisation emits and that it’s being offset.
We can do more and plan go even further.
We always strive to work with organisations that do their part to minimise their carbon footprint on our planet. In addition to our Positive Planet activities and offsetting, we run our Green School Program which plants trees in schools for education, nutrition and climate protection.
