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Capgemini, an international IT services
Typical organisation footprint for an IT services company CA
firm, engaged Atkins to carry out an Initial
Waste Management
Environmental review of its UK operations.
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The comprehensive review was successful in
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identifying areas to reduce environmental
Gas
Oil
Hotel Accommodation
impacts and meet the growing expectations of
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their clients and employees.
Water Consumption
Fast tracked to completion in just three months, Air Travel
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Atkins produced a number of outputs from the
review, including a summary of Capgemini’s current
environmental and carbon performance. This showed Car Travel
Emissions from
that whilst Capgemini had already undertaken a lot of purchase of
good environmental work, there were opportunities
electricity
to improve coordination of activities across the UK
business and to give individuals specific responsibility
Commuting
for environmental issues.
Recommendations were made on how Capgemini
could structure their environmental programme to “ The review has underpinned our understanding of where we
achieve these goals. This was supplemented with
should be prioritising our activities and how to measure our
a review of the public commitments of a select
number of competitors to help identity areas of
performance against our corporate environmental targets.”
potential best practice.
Jon Hampson, Capgemini
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The carbon footprint of the organisation was also long-term on how to meet targets for each of the
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assessed and revealed that the key drivers of the priority areas.
Head of Climate
footprint were energy use and business travel, Change
providing a useful focus point in prioritising measures. Capgemini will be using the outputs from the review
EnvIrOnMEnTAl
A register showing all environmental legislation to shape future activities of their environmental
SUSTAInABIlITy
relevant to the organisation was also developed, programme, which will lead to further reductions in
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Measuring carbon emissions
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Principal
in land remediation
Environmental
Consultant
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T: 01372 756748
Atkins has launched the remediation Options It also calculates the carbon footprint of five
mathew.worboys@atkinsglobal.com
Carbon Calculator (rOCC) which can be used to remediation solutions; excavate and export, soil
assess the emissions associated with a range of washing, bioremediation, thermal desorption and
land remediation work and is believed to be the ex-situ stabilisation/solidification, as well as the
first of its kind to be commercially available. impact of importing materials.
This web based tool is designed to enable land quality It is anticipated that the tool will be extremely
consultants, contractors and regulators to calculate beneficial to clients involved in any aspect of
CO
2
emissions associated with the regeneration of remediation from brownfield land acquisition to
brownfield land. disinvestment. It allows the user to consider ways
in which the project, its logistics and its processes
The tool measures the CO
2
emissions generated can be designed to reduce carbon emissions, which
from individual remediation technologies based on will also improve energy efficiency and potentially
the volume of contaminated material to be treated, reduce costs.
haulage travel distances, site plant emission rates and
fuel consumption of specialist treatment plants. For a free demonstration visit: www.atkinsrocc.com n
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