Climate Action 2009-2010

Helping customers reduce their carbon footprint
Individuals and companies are now able to reduce their
energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
through communication solutions.
Business trips are being replaced by telecommuting and
collaborative working solutions. As a global telecommunications
operator, we play a key role in helping our
customers reduce their own carbon footprint.
We provide solutions which can help our customers combat
greenhouse gas emissions by:
• enabling a ß exible workplace;
• promoting collaborative working;
• optimizing vehicle ß eet management;
• consolidating and virtualizing IT infrastructures;
• implementing telemetering solutions;
This approach is supported by a dedicated consultancy
practice, as we endeavour to continuously improve our
solutions.
In particular, we carry out comprehensive studies so we
can analyze the environmental impacts of our offers more
precisely.
Among other things, we have evaluated the benefi ts of our
Business Everywhere and Telepresence solutions.
We are also part of the “Climate Change and ICTs” Focus
Group which was initiated by the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU), a United Nations organisation. We
also contribute to the corresponding publications. Moreover,
in order to standardize the way energy consumption of
network equipment is measured, we recently launched the
Energy Effi ciency Inter-Operator Group, together with 18
other telecom operators.
We practice what we preach
Our activities produce limited amounts of greenhouse
gases, mainly through energy consumption from telecom
network infrastructures and buildings, but also emissions
from our vehicle ß eet as well as staff business trips.
However, we are committed to contributing to the combat
against climate change:
• reducing CO ² emissions for France Telecom Group by
20% from the 2006 level by the year 2020;
• involving all of our employees in reducing the companyÕs
environmental footprint;
• reducing energy consumption by 15% from the 2006
level by the year 2020;
• sourcing 25% of Orange Group electricity in the EMEA
zone from solar power by the year 2015.
One of our major initiatives to reduce our own carbon
footprint regards datacenters.
We have consolidated our infrastructures, virtualized
our servers, optimized the ventilation and implemented
new air conditioning systems.
Through a dedicated programme, we have produced
8,000 virtual servers.
This has allowed an energy saving of 14 GWh and saved
650 tons of CO 2 emissions by the end of May 2009.
Because of our continuous
efforts, we received the Frost
& Sullivan 2007 and 2008
Green Excellence Awards,
for “Product Innovation” and
“Service Achievement”.
“Orange leads the sustainable
telecoms market” according to a
ground-breaking report published
in May 2009 by Verdantix, an
independent analyst firm which
provides commercial analysis of
climate change, sustainability and
energy issues.
Benefits brought by ICT in
other sectors of the economy
are estimated to be
fi ve times higher than the
footprint generated by the
ICT sector itself. This is one
of the main conclusions of
the Smart 2020 report.
www.orange.com/responsibility