Verizon’s klimaatgerelateerde innovatie erkend in de
Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index
Verizon is voor de derde
keer opgenomen in de Maplecorft Climate Innovation Index. Deze index omvat een
lijst van 100 Amerikaanse bedrijven die topprestaties leveren als het gaat om
klimaatgerelateerde oftewel duurzame innovaties en programma’s om de
CO2-uitstoot te beperken. Verizon staat dit jaar op de 50ste plaats,
een stijging ten opzichte van vorig jaar toen het bedrijf op de 61st plaats
eindigde.
De Maplecroft Climate
Innovation Index is één van de meest uitgebreide studies en doet onderzoek naar
de wijze waarop Amerikaanse multinationals zich aanpassen en omgaan met
klimaatverandering, met als speciale focus innovatie. Volgens het rapport
onderscheidt Verizon zich door hun inspanningen om de koolstofintensiteit te
verlagen. Onder andere Verizon’s erkenning van de kansen die breedband en
wireless technologieën bieden voor het verbeteren van de efficiëntie van energie-
en transport infrastructuur, worden gewaardeerd.
Eerder dit jaar kondigde
Verizon aan dat ze streven naar een halvering van de CO2-intensiteit in 2020. Koolstofintensiteit
is een efficiëntie metriek bij Verizon. De hoeveelheid energie die nodig is
voor het versturen van één terabyte aan data over het netwerk van Verizon,
wordt gemeten. Dankzij de energiebesparende initiatieven en projecten heeft
Verizon in de afgelopen twee jaar de koolstofintensiteit met 30 procent
kunnen verlagen.
Het volledige Engelstalige
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Dina-Perla Marciano
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Verizon’s Climate-Related
Innovation Recognized in Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index
Rigorous Index
Honors Verizon for the Third Time
NEW
YORK -- Verizon has once again been named to the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index,
a list of 100 top performing companies in the U.S. selected for their
climate-related innovation and carbon-management programs. Verizon
is ranked No. 50 overall, up from No. 61 in the last ranking and up from No. 97
in the initial ranking in 2009.
The
Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (CIIs) are the single most exhaustive
study of the USA’s largest multinational companies and how they manage and
adapt to climate change, with a special focus on innovation. Maplecroft rated
each company against more than 100 criteria, including: technological
innovation and new working practices to combat climate-change impacts;
management of climate-related issues; adaption to physical climate-related
risks, such as flooding or more extreme weather events throughout the supply
chain; and the reduction of GHG emissions.
According
to the report, Verizon's strengths include its efforts to reduce its
carbon intensity and its recognition of the opportunities associated with the
role of broadband and wireless technology in improving the efficiency of energy
and transportation infrastructure.
“Since
establishing a dedicated sustainability program, Verizon has made tremendous
strides to measure and improve the efficiency of our business operations and to
make a positive impact on our customers and communities,” said Jim Gowen,
Verizon chief sustainability officer. “We are proud to see this progress
recognized by Maplecroft, and are thrilled by our continued rise in the
rankings.”
Earlier
this year, Verizon announced that it planned to cut its CO2 intensity in half
by 2020. Carbon intensity is a company-developed efficiency metric that
measures how much energy is required to move a terabyte of data across
Verizon’s network.
Through
aggressive network and real estate energy-efficiency initiatives and
conservation projects led by employee green teams worldwide, Verizon has improved
its carbon efficiency by more than 30 percent over the past two years.
In
addition to Maplecroft, Verizon has been named to several lists that recognize
sustainability, corporate ethical standards and social responsibility
performance, including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the Newsweek Global
Green 100, the FTSE4Good Index, the Ethibel
Sustainability Index and the Calvert Large Cap Value Fund.
Verizon’s
corporate responsibility efforts were also recently recognized by Corporate
Responsibility magazine, which named Verizon to the publication’s 2012 100 Best
Corporate Citizens List – the fifth consecutive year Verizon has appeared on
the list
To
view Maplecroft's methodology and results in the Maplecroft CII, visit www.maplecroft.com. More
information about Verizon’s overall sustainability initiatives can be found at www.verizon.com/sustainability.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered
in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and
wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and
wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable
wireless network, with 93 million retail customers nationwide. Verizon
also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services
over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated
business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of
the Fortune 500. A Dow 30 company with $111 billion in 2011 revenues,
Verizon employs a diverse workforce of nearly 192,000. For more
information, visit www.verizon.com.
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