British Telecom is taking its internal sustainability practices and applying the principles to its supply chain here in Asia.
Peter Beaudoin, who is responsible for BT’s sustainability efforts in Asia, says the operator is now putting more emphasis on corporate social responsibility practices of its suppliers when tendering contracts, to the point of actually visiting the […]

By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
Huawei has joined an environmental group for the ICT sector, making the Chinese firm the only Asian member of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative. With the move, Huawei hopes to influence the development of the global ICT industry together with other major players outside Asia.
“As people around the world are becoming increasingly concerned […]

By Luke Coleman, CommsDay
After playing a pivotal role in Telstra’s ongoing transformation for the past three years, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo announced John McInerney as the company’s Chief Information Officer and also as a Group Managing Director. McInerney will acquire responsibility for information systems from Telstra’s Transformation SVP Tom Lamming, who will continue to oversee
the […]

ABI Research has placed HP at the top of a new “Green Data Centre” vendor matrix, which analyses vendors according to their “innovation” and “implementation” across several criteria.
For the matrix, under “innovation,” ABI Research examined the firms’ carbon footprints, their regulatory compliance, recycling efforts, their efforts at “greening” internal operations, their use of video […]

HP and SunPower announced the completion of a 1.1 megawatt solar-electric power system on the roof of HP’s printing technology R&D facility in San Diego.
Under the deal, first made public last December, SunPower will install its SunPower T10 Solar Roof Tile commercial roof system on behalf of GE Energy Financial Services, who will own […]

Australia ISP, Internode, says it will now purchase all its power from green sources despite having to pay a 20% premium on its electricity supply.
Internode, which achieved carbon neutral status last year through the purchase of carbon credit offsets, will now buy green power in Australia from ‘fully audited sources,’ says Internode managing director Simon […]

French operator Orange will display environmental ratings for both fixed and mobile phones on its Web site and retail stores starting this month.
The initiative, part of a partnership with WWF-France, will display 5 categories of information on the environmental impact of phones for consumers.
“Orange and WWF France have opted to evaluate the environmental performance of […]

The keynote speaker for the CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom Day, Chloe Munro, Telstra’s executive director for innovation projects for the digital future, blasted the Garnaut report’s neglect of telecoms’ role in fighting climate change. Access her keynote presentation as well as slide decks from prominent speakers at our inaugural event in Melbourne here

By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay
Major telecoms industry players are forging new strategies to deal with climate change initiatives, but in the process must weigh an array of considerations from the investments required for innovation to the actual process of embedding new priorities across entire companies.
Telstra’s executive director for innovation projects for the digital future, Chloe Munro, […]

More than half of the Asian companies listed under the telecommunications services category failed to respond or chose not to respond to the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project, which asks leading global corporations to disclose their emission levels and strategies.
More than 3,000 companies across different industries were sent questionnaires as part of this year’s CDP – […]