SAP plans to slash its carbon emissions by 51% and help
its customers reduce theirs.
"We will try to
use technology to help SAP reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions," said
SAP's newly appointed chief sustainability officer, Peter
Graf.
He saidthat by 2020, the ERP supplier plans to
halve
the
513,000 tonnes of CO2 it produced in2007. This will
return SAP to its approximate year 2000 CO2 emissions
level of 250,000 tonnes.
Graf said SAP will
cut the amount of paper its prints by 20% by the end of this
year and will use tele-presence suites to provide
video-conferencing, instead of travelling to meetings.
SAP also plans to reduce the number of flights staff take by 5%
in 2009, and 20% by 2012.
SAP also plans to increase
virtualisation in its
data
centres by 40% in 2009, and by 80% by 2012.
Graf said SAP can also play a role in helping its customers
lower their carbon emissions. Given the company's strengths in
manufacturing, petrochemicals and heavy industry, Graf said SAP's
customers account for one-fifth of the world's greenhouse
emissions.
"We want to help these customers reduce their carbon emissions,"
he said.