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Carbon Disclosure Project:
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Environmental responsibility report:
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Tandberg White Paper: Visual Communication is green:
Environmental benefits of video telework for individuals, companies, and communities
Wainhouse Research: Using conferencing and collaboration to reach carbon neutrality:
Research and metrics for transitioning green intentions to green outcomes
AMR Research Report:
Big Green: IBM and the ROI of environmental leadership
Face-to-face with management reality:
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How to... wean staff off corporate travel:
Article - Amy Sims, Business Green
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IBM Unified communications and collaboration solutions white paper
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IP Telephony from A-Z
Unified Communications:
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EC Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment:
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Success Story:
One of the most effective ways to reduce CO2 emissions is to reduce unnecessary travel. On average, TANDBERG customers have found that videoconferencing can reduce their need to travel by 30%
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Video conferencing is green


Leading environmental organisations highlight video as an effective "green" technology to reduce global warming.
The Nature Conservancy lists video conferencing as one of its 'Easy Things You Can Do To Help Our Climate.'

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released two reports that demonstrate how video conferencing dramatically reduces carbon emissions.
In addition to its benefit related to climate change, video conferencing also provides measurable results to help your company do more with less.

TNT, Europe's largest mail and express delivery services company, implemented video as part of its Planet Me program. In addition to environmental goals, it estimates cutting travel by 20% and saving €11 million over four years.


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Ten Tips to Advance Business Goals and Reduce Environmental Impacts with Telepresence and Video Conferencing:

 

  • Telecommuting - Enable people to work from home while still being fully engaged in the workplace with a face-to-face connection. Save on real estate and operational costs, while increasing productivity and morale of employees who don’t spend hours in traffic
  • Access to remote experts - Connecting customers and employees to experts and advisors over video no matter where they are located saves time, money and carbon emissions, and increases customer satisfaction and loyalty
  • Global meetings - Whether meeting with the board or your global team, there’s no need for a flight. Just a short walk down the hall or a quick call from the desk and everyone can meet face-to-face
  • Customer briefing centres - Video unites purchasers, clients, sales staff and engineers in real time without travel to facilitate instant decision making and collaboration
  • Work/life balance - Employees who are always on the road often report more stress, less productivity and reduced job satisfaction. Video removes the need to travel, increasing morale, productivity, and collaboration
  • Distance learning - Schools and training facilities get an added lesson in conservation when they connect via video to remote institutions to enhance learning opportunities and save on costs
  • R&D - Designers and researchers around the globe can hold video discussions about product design, carry out component modifications, and advance development timelines, without increasing their carbon footprint
  • Team building - Multiple offices don’t have to mean isolated teams. Video allows remote teammates to see each other as often as if they were in the same office, building camaraderie without associated travel
  • HR recruiting - Video-based screenings of out-of-town candidates cut costs and carbon emissions by eliminating travel, while allowing hiring managers to read candidates’ facial expressions
  • Real-time collaboration - Organisations can deal with large amounts of rich data and collaborate in real-time from multiple locations with the visual and multi-media capabilities of video conferencing instead of losing productivity from rigorous travel out into the field.


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Register to download Global Survey: Consumers and employees reward green companies here

The Green Grid
A non-profit global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.

thegreengrid.org
Benefits of Teleworking -
News Channel 8:
Video interview with TANDBERG Americas President Rick Snyder about the business continuity benefits of telework and how its enhanced by visual communications
Videoconferencing helps companies cut travel costs - USA Today:
In 2008, the global videoconferencing market grew 24% to $2.4 billion, according to Roopam Jain, a technology analyst at Frost & Sullivan. The firm forecasts the market will more than double, to reach $5.7 billion by 2013.
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