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47
The Strategic Report
Delivering our strategy
Delivering our strategy
For the third consecutive year, our focus on improving service has
resulted in an increase in the overall reliability of our IT systems.
In the UK we spent around £296m on energy and fuel this year
(201213 £270m). The increase from last year reects higher energy
prices. Even though business volumes have increased we have reduced
energy consumption by 3%, achieving our target for a fth consecutive
year to reduce energy usage across the group.
The energy savings programmes we ran in the year are expected to
generate over £25m in annualised cost savings, taking the total annualised
savings, from programmes run over the last ve years, to £131m.
BT’s worldwide energy use
Year ended 31 March
Gwh
2012 20132010 2011 2014
2,400
2,450
2,500
2,550
2,600
2,650
2,700
2,750
2,800
2,850
2,900
2,786
2,762
2,681
2,600
2,527
This year, to track our carbon emissions, we are reporting two CO2
equivalent (CO2e) intensity measures
• since 2008, we have had an ambitious carbon emissions reduction
target linked to our economic contribution to GDP. This year we
reduced our net carbon emissions per unit of value added (our
contribution to GDP) by 79% compared with 199697, making
good progress towards our target of achieving an 80% reduction by
December 2020 and
• to help benchmark our performance against other organisations,
we have also reported our intensity as net emissions (scopes 1 2)
per unit of revenue. This year we achieved 13.8 tonnes CO2e per
£million of revenue, reecting an 84% reduction since 199697.
We report all of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources required
under new UK regulations. We have used the GHG Protocol Corporate
Accounting and Reporting Standard with UK Government GHG
Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2014 and International
Energy Agency Conversion Factors. The chart below reports our GHG
emissions and denes scopes 1, 2 and 3. We reduced our total net
CO2e emissions by 26% during the year.
1997 (Base)
CO2e Ktonnes
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
Global GHG emissions data
Year ended 31 March
1,628
Total Gross EmissionsaTotal Net Emissionsa
Combustion of fuel and operation of facilities (Scope 1)
Electricity purchased for own use (Scope 2)
Other indirect emissions (Scope 3)
a
Excludes third-party consumption.
117
1,097
414
2014
1,391
182
70
136
2013
1,435
194
189
138
2012
1,509
191
512
143
More details can be found in our Better Future report at
www.bt.combetterfuturereport
IT systems reliability – measure of the improvement, stability and reliability of our IT systems estate
Year ended 31 March
Rolling 12-week average
100.00
99.99
99.98
99.97
99.96
99.95
99.94
99.93
99.92
2012 2013 2014
Q4Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3