Journal subscription services provider EBSCO Information Services, US, recently announced a partnership with environmental consulting firm Carbonfund.org, to measure its own carbon footprint and to establish a long-term green strategy.
The inventory and analysis led by Carbonfund.org on behalf of EBSCO covered several categories including electricity, natural gas and business travel. It revealed that electricity is the main contributing factor to EBSCO's footprint, accounting for more than two-thirds of the company's total carbon dioxide emissions during the past year.
To reduce its carbon footprint and to positively impact the environment, EBSCO has already established a global long-term plan and implemented its first concrete green initiatives. One of these involved the installation of solar panels on the roof of EBSCO Publishing's mill building. Among other actions, a global internal environmental policy has been created, and a special task force is dedicated to educate staff and business partners (libraries and publishers) about the challenge of confronting climate change.
Meanwhile, EBSCO goes on designing and introducing solutions in a bid to balance its carbon footprint. As part of this ongoing green strategy, in France, the company has decided to sponsor a reforestation project in Mali launched by one of its customers, Agrocampus, a national institute of higher education in Agronomics (www.agrocampus-rennes.fr).
EBSCO has also decided to allow its customers to take part in its environmental strategy by offering miniature trees on its booth at the ongoing Online Information 2007 in London. For each 'babytree' purchased by EBSCO, a tree will be planted in Indonesia by the non-governmental organisation, Planète Urgence (www.planete-urgence.org).
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