Atea’s absolute focus area within the Global Compact are the principles 7 to 9, which concerns our environment. Atea take an active role to promote and support implementation of environmental and Green IT concepts in our own and our customers’ organizations. We believe that taking a corporate responsibility and increasing environmental awareness are highly important for the global climate, our own company, as well as our customers and the supply chain between. Our environmental focus is based on our external environmental market concepts and our internal environmental management systems.
All Atea companies have climate reports, we have developed targets and goals for reducing our own environmental impact and further we are certified according to the ISO 14001. To ensure constant focus, external audits and status on internal CO2 emission in Atea are conducted, and with the climate reports we identify and implement necessary actions to lower the Group’s total CO2 emission. Our goal is to reduce the CO2 emission by 25% per employee by 2015 (based on a 2007 level).
As a IT supplier we are committed to helping our customers in understanding and increasing their focus on Green IT, while maintaining a satisfactory and high return on investment (ROI) on their IT investments. With the goitgreen concept we provide environmentally optimized Green IT to all our customers, by focusing on the total IT product life cycle from IT policies, products, consultancies, logistics, solutions and recycle. In 2009 goitgreen projects helped our customers save 218,669 tons of CO2 or the emission of more than 17,218 Nordic households.
By far the best way to minimize the environmental impact of computers is by extending their lifespan - either through complete or partial reuse, or by ensure further use. By entering our goitloop and recycling concept, our customers can extend the lifetime of any obsolete equipment in their company. Around 50% of all IT equipment received can be reused or resold and we recycle 99.7% of all equipment and dispose of the remaining 0.3% in an environmentally responsible manner.
On the left you will find more information about the different CSR and Green IT Initiatives.
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