Business Chief USA February 2019
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“A few years ago,<br />
we worked with<br />
EDF on our water<br />
footprint. We’re<br />
always looking at<br />
every aspect of<br />
our operations”<br />
—<br />
Shannon Thomas Carroll,<br />
Director of Global Environmental<br />
Sustainability at AT&T<br />
around that. We have a public goal to<br />
reduce our fleet emissions by 30%.<br />
We have lots of public goals that are<br />
already tagged at this work and<br />
within the business units. They<br />
just have their heads down and<br />
are doing the really hard work<br />
to achieve this. When we come<br />
into departments and explain it’s<br />
really about the work that they’re<br />
already doing, the light bulbs go off<br />
and they become really good business<br />
partners. We’re constantly looking<br />
at the landscape in terms of the environment.<br />
A few years ago, we worked<br />
with EDF on our water footprint for<br />
example. We’re always looking at every<br />
aspect of our operations.”<br />
Technology is driving sustainability<br />
and AT&T is largely a technology<br />
company thus possessing a read edge<br />
when it comes to finding solutions.<br />
“I would say just about everything we<br />
do has a technology component,”<br />
Carroll explains. “For example, we’ve<br />
got a project called Icon. It’s basically<br />
our internal IoT solution, where we’ve<br />
put sensors on all types of internal equipment,<br />
including network equipment,<br />
HVACS, water towers, everything you<br />
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