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Hi everyone, welcome to GreenMonk TV. We're here at Logica in the UK and with me today

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I have Tony Rook, Head of Sustainability and Environment at Logica UK.

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Okay. Tony, can you tell us some details of two aspects of Logica's sustainability efforts?

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One is your own internal efforts around sustainability and second is how you are

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empowering your customers to achieve their sustainability targets.

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Okay. Internally, we've set out a metric around measuring it, reducing it, transforming it,

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transforming the way we do things, communicating it and then reviewing as a strategy

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and having that as a constant circular method of doing our environmental performance.

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We've then learned from that and seen that it is the right way to do it and actually

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we're applying that as we go out to our customers, taking them on a sustainability journey so they

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can understand where they start from and where they need to be to transform into that sustainable

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business.

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Okay. So, can you give me some concrete examples of ways you have addressed sustainability internally

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and then talk to us if you have some case studies around customer wins?

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Yeah. Okay. Internally, we've looked at our energy and our carbon footprint. That's the first part of what we did.

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So, we started calculating our carbon footprint, getting all the data together.

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We benchmarked 2006 and then announced that we were reducing energy through switch-off initiatives,

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through webinars, through awareness raising things with staff, as well as infrastructure projects internally within Logica.

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For example, our new eco-data centre with free air cooling, in-rack cooling, we've done printer initiatives and everything else around that.

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This has then saved us energy. It's saved our carbon footprint, reduced it and saved us money.

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Second side, we've been installing more recycling facilities, for example, and as a result of which,

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we've seen our waste to landfill go down by 23% in two years.

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In terms of the energy, last year, we reduced our total electricity by 3% in our operational offices.

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And that is 70% of our carbon footprint anyway. So, it's a big deal.

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Externally, we have another of offerings that we've taken to our clients.

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Again, applying that circular of measure, reduce, transform, communicate and review.

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And from consultancy, through specific efforts in terms of measuring,

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and one of the ones that we're actually bringing forward as soon is called CIRA,

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Sustainability Indicator Reporting Application.

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That's fed in a lot of the lessons that we've learnt from internally.

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On the reduction side, we've done consolidations of servers for our clients,

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where we save them 80% on their energy costs from that ITU's fly-sation.

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We've also implemented a wind farm control system,

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and that's been implemented in Spain and Portugal.

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I believe it's now controlling 2,000 turbines in 80 different wind farms across the Iberian Peninsula.

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Fantastic. Great.

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As a resident of Spain, I applaud your efforts.

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Thanks very much.

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And thanks a million for coming on the show.

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Thank you.