AES Group Ltd has an Environmental Policy which establishes our position in addressing all issues associated to the environment and defines that AES is committed to minimising the environmental impact of its operations, preventing pollution and the continual improvement of its performance associated to the environment.
This commitment extends to all our activities, wherever they take place, which have the potential to adversely affect the environment. We aim to reduce environmental harm, minimise the use of energy and other resources and ensure that the principles of sustainable development are operated throughout the range of activities in which we are engaged.
We are committed to continuously improve our environmental performance and prevent pollution by:
- Complying with relevant legislation, regulations and other relevant requirements.
- Setting realistic objectives and targets for each of our most significant environmental impacts.
- Minimising our energy consumption and encouraging the use of less polluting forms of transport whenever possible.
- Minimising the amount of waste produce through reduction, recovery and recycling.
- Training all employees on environmental issues.
- Regularly reviewing our environmental management system.
As part of our commitment to continuously improve our environmental performance and prevent pollution, using some the latest technology we have successfully reduced our carbon footprint as described below:
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All of our internet servers are powered by 100% renewable energy, which equates to:
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Through the use of virtualisation/virtualization technology we have reduced the number of internal physical servers to less than 50%, which equates to:
