The Greenest Companies in the World
6. BT Group:
The BT Group is headquartered in United Kingdom. It ranks sixth on the list. The company deals in telecommunications and has a green score on 80.4.
The company has plans in order to reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020, and has already reached a 54 percent reduction. In 2004, they announced the world's biggest purchase of 'green' electricity in a huge deal. Under three year contracts with British Gas and power worth several hundred million pounds, BT's depots, offices and 6,500 telephone exchanges were powered mostly from sustainable resources such as solar, wave, wind and hydroelectric schemes. The deal saved emissions equivalent to the quantity of carbon dioxide produced by over 100,000 cars.
