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2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

Enablement factor: Customers reducing carbon emissions

We enable our customers to reduce their emissions through our products and solutions. The enablement factor gives us the ratio between this savings potential for our customers and our own carbon footprint, allowing us to assess our overall performance – both positive and negative – when it comes to climate protection. Since 2014, we have been studying the potential savings that various products can achieve on the user side; we carried out 17 such assessments in 2022. Also, we again tracked emissions reductions resulting from installation of efficient wall-mounted charging stations for electric cars (wall boxes). The largest potential in this context has been leveraged for video conferencing with 4.5 million metric tons of carbon. Other savings potential lies with cloud computing img, which enables our customers to reduce their carbon emissions by using our cloud services and outsourcing their existing infrastructure to our efficient data centers. Better servers, more energy-efficient data centers, and higher infrastructure capacity utilization can thus cut energy consumption and the associated emissions by up to 80 percent.

Reporting against standards

 

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

  • GRI 305-5 (Emissions)