We believe that we have an important role to play by undertaking good care of the environment.
We know our environmental management can directly influence our business performance and provide a range of productivity benefits across a range of areas. By reducing the environmental impact of our operations, we provide better value for our shareholders, reduce ongoing costs, efficiently use precious resources and initiate programmes that benefit the wider community.
TelstraClear’s Environmental Policy
TelstraClear is committed to minimising any adverse impact on and injury to the environment and preserving the beneficial qualities of the environment, while providing quality products and services.
TelstraClear therefore seeks to conduct its business in a way that is compatible with the environmental needs of the communities in which we operate and in accordance with all applicable environmental laws, regulations, codes of practice and Company Policies.
TelstraClear supports programmes for waste management, control of greenhouse emissions, recycling initiatives and improvements in the uses of resources.
What initiatives are TelstraClear taking to reduce our environmental impact?
- Independent measurement of TelstraClear’s carbon footprint by Landcare Research
- Measurement will allow TelstraClear to identify and quantify the progress of the sustainability initiatives across our business
- Measurement will allow TelstraClear to identify and quantify the progress of the sustainability initiatives across our business
- Recycling and Waste Minimisation across our business
- Building and Energy Efficiency
- Consolidation of existing servers to reduce energy consumption
- Minimising impact from transportation
- Using our telecommunications network to reduce or replace physical travel, including tele-working, video and tele conference arrangements
- Reviewing the efficiency of company car use by taking suitable opportunities to move to less vehicles and more fuel efficient vehicles
- Reviewing office consumables, printing and equipment
- Procurement
- Encouraging vendors to actively pursue environmental improvements
Telecommunications-based opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
The smart use of telecommunications provides opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Our parent company, Telstra, commissioned an independent report by Climate Risk Pty Ltd in 2007 on telecommunications-based opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As well as exploring digital strategies to reduce Telstra’s own energy use, the report recognised opportunities for the telecommunications sector to help enterprises to achieve greater carbon emission reductions.
The report titled "Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future: Telecommunications-based Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions" established that telecommunications networks can play a nationally significant role to survive and prosper in a future carbon-constrained world.
The seven opportunities identified in the report to reduce greenhouse gas emissions included:
- Networked demand-side management to increase renewable energy use;
- Integrated personalised public transport;
- "In person" high-definition videoconferencing to improve business productivity;
- Presence-detecting services that turn off devices that are "on" but not being used;
- Real-time freight allocation systems to fill empty freight vehicles;
- Remote power management for appliances not in use or on "stand-by"; and
- Teleworking.
The opportunities identified in the report, if achieved, could reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by an amount and pace that meets the Kyoto Protocol target, as well as generating up to $6.6 billion in annual financial saving for Australian households and businesses.
It is clear that real opportunities exist for leading edge telecommunications service to deliver sustained improvement.
