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Understanding …
Green Business Practices For businesses
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Part 1 : Climate Change, Whose responsibility is it ?
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Our World is Changing ….
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Yes We are Responsible for it !
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But, Small and Medium Businesses Ignore this
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“Its nothing personal,
Its just business”
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“Its nothing personal,
Its just business”
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The Small Businesses make up
of all the Businesses
60 %
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“Business is the only mechanism powerful enough
to produce the changes necessary to reverse global
environment and social degradation”
- Paul Hawken
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“Business is the only mechanism powerful enough
to produce the changes necessary to reverse global
environment and social degradation”
- Paul Hawken
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Part 2 : Business Impact of turning ‘green’
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Green Practices can Help you …
Save Money
The experience of businesses that have already adopted
environmentally sustainable working practices is that
energy efficiency can lead to significant cost savings,
which means your business can become leaner and more
efficient.
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Green Practices can Help you …
Win new Business
There is growing pressure from society, government and
customers for businesses to act in an environmentally
responsible way. The attitudes and expectations of
consumers are changing rapidly and businesses need to
be able to adapt quickly.
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Green Practices can Help you …
Enhance Reputation
Customers and the public increasingly demand that
businesses behave in an environmentally ethical way.
Those that fail to meet these expectations risk causing
damage to their brand. In turn this can harm a
company’s ability to win customers and attract and
retain the best employees.
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Green Practices can Help you …
Make you more Efficient
The same technologies that help reduce your carbon footprint
can at the same time result in significant efficiency gains.
Allowing employees the flexibility to work from home not
only reduces the amount of travel they do, thereby cutting
carbon emissions, but research shows it also makes employees
around 20 per cent more productive.
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Part 3 : What does it mean to be a Sustainable Business ?
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Work Smarter and Reduce Travel
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Recycle and Reduce consumption of materials
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Improve Energy Efficiency
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Sustainable Sourcing
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Part 4: The Road to making your company green
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Step 1 Measure your Carbon Footprint
If you cannot measure it, You cannot improve it !
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Numerous tools available online …
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Reduce congestion on the roads and in effect reduce pollution.
Step 2 Adopt Flexible work timing
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Increase in productivity gain
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Increase in Motivation
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Improved productivity
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Reduce office space
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Reduce Travel
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Reduce Carbon Footprint
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Reduce Energy
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Step 3 Adopt new Technologies
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Voice over IP
Voice over IP Single cabling for Data and
Telephone applications, reducing materials used
and power required.
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Remote Maintenance
IP Networks provide ability for remote
maintenance of voice and telephone systems.
Reducing travel for maintenance personnel.
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E-Training and E- Learning
Reducing the need for paper and in turn the
requirement for employees or trainers to travel
to or from the training centers.
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Wi-fi at coffee shops
Encourage employees to use wi-fi at coffee
shops to connect to the office network while on
meeting tours.
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Smart Phone Technology
Encourage employees to use smart phone
technologies to help them work out of the
office and not have to be present at the office
everyday.
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Web conferencing and meeting
Usage of web conferencing and web meeting
will help reduce travel and also help the
environment.
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Air Travel Substitution
Encourage employees to adopt as much land
transport as possible in order to reduce high
altitude Carbon emission.
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Virtual filing and Cloud computing
Whether its Google or Microsoft, use Cloud Computing to maximize server
utilization and save space.
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Electronic Signatures
Embrace electronic signatures technologies, for
saving of paper as well as easy and faster
review and signature.
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Use Less Packaging
Or Opt for
Sustainable Packaging
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Print on both sides
If you do have to print, print on both sides of
the paper to reduce paper usage.
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Recycle
Recycle paper as much as possible as well as
try to use reduced packaging.
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Online Marketing
Use online marketing, especially on social
networking sites to provide maximum coverage
with minimum environmental impact.
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Green IT
Invest in Green IT solutions, the energy
efficiency of the average sever has gone up 10
times in the last 5 years.
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Step 4 Office Environment
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Buildings Account for
Of energy usage.
70 %
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Switch Off Computers and Laptops
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Switch to energy efficient Lighting
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Adopt Energy Saving with the Heating and Cooling systems
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Step 5 Material Sourcing
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Switch to green Materials
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Source Low Carbon Footprint products
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Choose Greener Suppliers
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Did you know ?
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Only in the UK 70 Million Sq Meters of Office Space is unnecessarily lit
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Equal to 8750 Football fields
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Accounting to more than £350 Million
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Leaving office lights on all night
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Wastes enough energy to heat water for
1000 … cups of tea.
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A copier left on over night uses enough power to produce
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1500 ….. Copies.
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Leaving a PC on all night uses up
enough energy to…
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Microwave
6dinners
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Microwave
6dinners
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Switching off Non Essential equipment
Saves enough energy to …
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Run a small car for
35 Miles.
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How to make it all of this a reality ?
a recap.
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Use conferencing instead of travelling.
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If every Dubai company were to use conferencing
small businesses could save
1,700,000tonnes of
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Adopt flexible work timing
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1 person in every company ….
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1 day in a week ….
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Work from home in Dubai ….
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Could save
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516 Million kgs of CO2
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Shut down computers and other
electrical kit at the end of the day
Could save enough energy for
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26,000,000 Dinners
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Use recycled stationery and save paper
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1 tonne of recycled paper = 32,000 liters of water
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Reduce Unnecessary travel and
use mobile communication technology
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Every employee in Dubai, reduces
2 working days of travel a year
we could save …
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1,000,000 tonnes of CO2
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Its time to do something
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Its not just a planet ….
Its Home.
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