Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It's not you, it's your CO2

A telecoms industry body focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has called for all companies to take action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - so-called Scope 3 emissions - across their entire value chain. The Joint Alliance for CSR (JAC)* is made up of 26 telecoms operators, including founding members Deutsche …

[Fading]

BT ahead of the game on this one....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/18/bt-job-cuts-redundancies-replace-fifth-with-ai/

A lot less carbon based lifeforms really helps decarbonise the industry....

[Little Mouse]

All Talk and no Trousers?

So, lots of bluster and declarations of intent, etc, but no actual plan? Hmm.

[Pascal Monett]

Re: All Talk and no Trousers?

Yeah. 93% have committed to. Great news. Call me when actually done something about it.

Saying you're going to is great, but if you don't actually follow-up, it's just wind in the leaves.

We have politicians for that.

[codejunky]

Erm

This is something to boast about? Ok. I hope the other 7% focus on delivering the service they provide.

[ChrisElvidge]

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/04/jac_emissions_best_practices/

jac emissions - really?

[dr_hugh_jass]

The peer pressure, bluster and hand waving driving this pseudoscience continues to get the easily excitable wound up. I wonder how long it'll last.