A carbon footprint is a “measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation.

The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

A carbon footprint is made up of two parts

1. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels including domestic energy consumption and transportation (e.g. car and plane). We have direct control of these.
2. The secondary footprint is a measure of the indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products we use - those associated with their manufacture and eventual breakdown. To put it very simply – the more we buy the more emissions will be caused on our behalf.

Source - carbonfootprint

Aiming to reduce CO2 emissions by 30 million tons by 2020 through environmental innovation, Fujitsu Limited has announced that the Fujitsu Group has established “Green Policy 2020,” its medium-term environmental vision.

The policy is embodied in the three keywords Creation, Collaboration, and Change:

• Creation of advanced technologies and business solutions;
• Collaboration with customers, business partners, and other key stakeholders in the international community;
• and the promotion of Change within the Fujitsu Group itself.

Three Goals

1. Benefit our customers and society as a whole
2. Pursue internal reforms
3. Preserve biodiversity

Wells Fargo has been awarded LEED Silver pre-certification for construction of new banking stores that will slash energy use by 20 percent and water consumption by 40 percent. Wells Fargo is one of the first businesses to be pre-certified for LEED construction

Wells Fargo has been pre-certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) standards for new construction set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

According to the USGBC, buildings are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions in the United States, directly affecting climate change, and use 71 percent of the nation’s electricity every year

Wells Fargo LEED pre-certified prototype means that 20 percent of its buildings will be composed of post- and pre-consumer recycled content, and 75 percent of the wood-based materials used will come from domestic forests and factories that are managed in an environmentally responsible way.

All electric power for Caterpillar’s FG Wilson manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland is supplied by Airtricity, a renewable electricity that develops and owns onshore and offshore wind farms.

This is Caterpillar’s first production site to be 100 % supplied by renewable electricity. The companies say the facilities will reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 11,000 tons per year.

CAT was also one of the original members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group of companies and environmental groups that have called on the federal government to enact strong legislation to regulate greenhouse gases.

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