01732 759725 40 VOX POP continued... There’s no getting away from the fact that climate change is among the most pressing problems facing businesses today. The UK has a legally binding net zero by 2050 target and achieving this will require businesses to make real changes and to turn climate targets into action. Here, some of the print and IT sector’s leading vendors share their sustainability strategies and the progress they’ve made in reducing GHG emissions The race to net zero: part two Sabine Heine-Bickle, Head of Governance and Standards, Kyocera Document Solutions UK: As signatories to the UN Global Compact, we have aligned our focus areas in the UK with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Most of these involve ongoing activity rather than a single target. We’re supporting ‘good health and wellbeing’ for our employees through our mental and physical health wellbeing initiatives and also via paying them a living wage under our ‘decent work and economic growth’ pillar. Spanning across several stakeholders, including our local communities, we support charity volunteering by our employees and support charities with free leaflet printing via our ‘reducing inequalities’ initiatives. Our customers and the wider world benefit from our efforts on ‘responsible consumption and production’ where we target things like material usage in our production, minimising plastic use and the overall recyclability in our packaging. Finally, and most importantly, ‘climate action’ where we have set targets to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 in line with Science Based Targets goals and are also supporting our customers’ efforts towards this goal by offering them a carbon neutral service and product options. James Epton, Head of Marketing, XBM: XBM Ltd is, like many UK businesses, primarily a sales and services organisation. We stand between international manufacturers and the businesses we serve. As such, our goal is not only to act sustainably as a company, but to provide our customers with products and services where sustainability has been factored in, from design, resource procurement and manufacture, right through to the operation of the devices in the field. Increasingly, our customers are placing sustainability high in their buying criteria, along with business requirements/product functions and price. Even when it comes to price, the total cost of ownership (TCO) now makes energy usage part of the equation, with rising energy bills a major concern. Devices that have significantly lower power consumption will be cheaper to run, reducing both the electricity bill and the business’s carbon footprint. PrintIT Reseller: What are the main objectives and targets of your sustainability strategy, and what progress have you made to date in meeting your goals? Sabine Heine-Bickle James Epton
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