Welcome to our environment and climate change website

BT has a strong heritage as a responsible business. The future is about creating even greater value for both the company and society. It’s about building on our strengths by generating opportunities, developing innovative new products and services and making our business more sustainable.

In 1990 the BT Board made a commitment to optimise environmental management across the company. We started reporting on our progress in 1992, gained ISO14001 - the environmental management standard - accreditation in 1999 and continue to make real strides towards our goal of world class environmental management.

We started measuring our carbon footprint in the UK in 1996 and have already reduced it by 58%. Our challenge now is to achieve an 80% reduction in CO2 intensity world-wide by 2020.

I hope you will find the information on this site interesting and visit it again to find out more about what we are doing and how you can get involved.

Donna Young
Head of environment and climate change
BT Group
May 2008

BT NEWS

02 Jun 2008 BT announces 80% global CO2 reduction target and proposes new model to encourage global businesses to follow suit

BT announced today that it will cut its carbon emissions intensity by 80 per cent across the globe by 2020 , setting one of the most aggressive corporate carbon reduction targets worldwide.

BT is replacing celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay as the star of its Business TV advertising with Dragons' Den business tycoon, Peter Jones

BT Business invites small business owners and entrepreneurs to the annual BT Business Experience to find out how to compete effectively, survive and thrive even in a difficult economic climate.

One of central London's biggest renewable energy projects has been installed by BT to mark the beginning of Spring

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