Together WWF and HP designed and launched an innovative private sector NGO partnership. The partnership built on core business competencies and objectives to leverage the power of advanced conservation and information technologies to reduce CO2 emissions.
Internally at HP, the Sustainable Innovation Zone, SIZ, was launched in September 2007 for employees to submit ideas and suggestions on how information and communication technologies (ICT) services can help customers to reduce CO2 emissions in new innovative ways.
In parallel with the Sustainable Innovation Zone, the first billion tonnes of CO2 reductions using ICT solutions were mapped. The result was a report released in 2008 that provides a roadmap showing how companies, individuals and governments can use innovative ICT solutions that can contribute to the reduction of the first billion tonnes of CO2 reductions.
Alongside the report, a paper on how the ICT sector can take the lead in moving from an agenda of risk to profit in relation to climate change solutions was published in 2009.
A paper that explores the possibilities of introducing an offset scheme for conference travels and meetings that use the income to support increased use of virtual meetings was also published in 2009.
Suzanne Pahlman was the Project leader in charge of this work.
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