BT published its annual Better Future sustainability report, promising to use the power of communication to improve lives, ways of doing business and to make its overall impact on society a positive one.
Some highlights of the report:
- BT invested £27 million in 2012/13 to support its commitment to being a responsible and sustainable business. There are three focus areas - Connected Society, Net Good and Improving Lives – each with its own vision and an ambitious goal to achieve by the end of 2020.
- BT's 2020 goal is that more than nine out of ten people in the UK will have access to fibre-based products and services.
- BT's investment alongside 19 partnership investment projects has accelerated UK fibre broadband rollout to around 15 million premises already.
- BT's Connecting Africa initiative is providing internet services via satellite to 20 locations, creating access to information and critical services for up to 700,000 people.
- BT's 2020 goal is to help customers reduce carbon emissions by at least three times the end to end carbon impact of its business.
- BT has achieved its target of hitting an 80% reduction in UK carbon emissions three years ahead of deadline despite increased volume.
- BT reduced its energy consumption in 2012/13 by 3.3%, saving the business £33m annually.
- BT's 2020 goal is to use BT's skills and technology to help generate more than £1bn for good causes.
"Our Better Future programme signals BT's evolution to a new model in which every part of the business and every employee has a role to play in realising our visions and achieving our goals to create a better business with a better future. It's a long-term commitment, focusing on what we do best – bring together our networks and our technology with the expertise of our people to make a better world. Using the power of communications, we can benefit our customers, our bottom-line and the communities we operate in," Niall Dunne, stated Chief Sustainability Officer.
