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44 BT Group plc
Annual Report 2016
Reducing our customers’ carbon footprinta,b
We continue to progress towards our 3:1 goal, measuring the
impact our products and services can have on reducing our
customers’ carbon emissions.
This year we generated £3.6bn of revenue from products that
have contributed to carbon abatement – up from £3.4bn in
2014/15. As an example, our Field Force Automation services
enable organisations with mobile teams to improve their
productivity by automating fleet and driver scheduling and
reporting. This means they can better manage their fleet of
vehicles, saving fuel and reducing emissions.
3:1 Goal 2015/16b2014/15
Customer savings 7.6 Mt 7.1 Mt
Our impact 4.8 Mt 4.6 Mt
Ratio 1.6:1 1.5:1
Our own energy use and carbon footprinta,b
Reducing our energy use
We’ve reduced our worldwide energy use for the seventh
consecutive year. In Great Britain we spent around £307m on
energy and fuel this year (2014/15: £306m). We estimate that
our energy savings programme has helped reduce our overall bill
by £29m this year, and by £190m since 2009/10. 95% of the
worldwide energy we buy comes from renewable sources and
we’re aiming to achieve 100% – where markets allow – by the end
of 2020.
Gwh
2013 20142012 2015 2016
BT’s worldwide energy use
a,b
Year ended 31 March
2,000
2,100
2,200
2,300
2,400
2,500
2,600
2,700
2,800
2,616
2,678
2,526
2,338
2,412
Reducing our carbon footprint
We report all of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources
required under UK regulationsc. The following chart shows the
10% reduction this year in our total operational worldwide
CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissionsd:
1997
(Base)
CO2e Ktonnes
BT’s worldwide greenhouse gas emissions
Year ended 31 March
2016201520142013
1,628
535
391 387 349
Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the generation of our purchased energy
(mainly electricity)
Scope 1: Direct emissions from our own operations (eg fuel combustion)
Scope 3: Other indirect emissions (eg production of purchased materials
and fuels)
Figures exclude third-party consumption and EE.
0
250
500
750
1,500
1,750
a,b,c,e
1,097
414
117
194
190
151
126
51
172
174
65
148
182
62
147
e
We also report two CO2e intensity measures:
• Our climate stabilisation intensity (CSI) target: by 2020, we’ll
reduce our operational worldwide carbon emissions per unit of
value-added (our contribution to GDP) by 80% compared to
1996/97. This year, we achieved 81%, exceeding our target.
Next year, we’ll incorporate EE into the numbers and set a new
target.
• Our scope 1 & 2 emissions this year totalled 12.5 tonnes CO2e
per £m revenue, reflecting an 86% reduction since our base
year of 1996/97.
Conserving natural resourcesa,b
Reducing water usage
Most of our water usage is for office and catering facilities, or to
cool equipment (for example, in telephone exchanges). This year
we reduced our UK water consumption by 10%. We’ll continue
to target and reduce leaks using our half-hourly meter readings,
provided by our automatic monitoring and reporting programme.
Managing waste products
We try to minimise the amount of materials we use in our
operations, and re-use them where we can. Otherwise our
specialist contractors recycle them wherever possible, or manage
their disposal – including hazardous materials such as oil and some
types of light bulbs and batteries – in line with legislation.
a We restate previous years’ data when subsequent information is deemed to be materially
significant, such as replacing previous estimates with measured figures.
b EE data is excluded, in line with the GHG protocol below, pending next year’s report when we
will provide new baseline numbers.
c We use the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, with UK Government
GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2015.
d We report on all our greenhouse gas emissions as a single total, by converting them to the
equivalent amount of CO2 using latest government conversion factors.
e Detailed emissions data is available from our Delivering Our Purpose website, www.btplc.
com/Purposefulbusiness. To comply with revised GHG Protocol guidance this year, we now
report both market and location-based Scope 2 data. This chart uses a market-based measure
for 2015/16, consistent with the methodology used in previous years.