What about your suppliers and customers?
We’re actively helping our suppliers and customers reduce their GHG emissions. Dell was the first in the industry to join the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration and requires primary suppliers to disclose emissions data during quarterly business reviews. A supplier’s volume of Dell business can be affected by the scores earned on these reviews. We’re also a founding member of the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct.
ABN AMRO, one of the world’s largest international banks, is saving €1,800,000 on annual IT energy costs with Dell Energy Smart desktops. The company was the first European member of Dell’s ‘Plant a Forest for Me’ program, which lets organizations offset the carbon emissions of their IT equipment through planting trees.
Small businesses are also realizing savings. Robertson Homes, a Dell small business customer and green home builder in St. Cloud, Fla., recently added eight new Energy Smart OptiPlex 960 desktops and a Dell PowerEdge T300 server to help reduce operating costs.
“By adding Dell’s energy-efficient systems with power-management enabled, we expect that our IT related energy costs will be reduced by as much as 84 percent,” said Clint Robertson, IT Manager for Robertson Homes.
We are also helping customers achieve larger environmental goals, enabling them to uncover new ways to drive efficiencies and reduce operating costs. For example, the Dell Greenprint Advisor is a free web-based resource center enabling organizations to assess their green initiatives and help prioritize future actions that is currently available in the US and will be expanded globally in the coming months.