BT has launched a website that includes a 'carbon calculator'. The climate change site enables visitors to calculate their annual carbon dioxide usage at any point in time, based on their fuel consumption at home and travel patterns including flights and yearly road and rail mileage. The calculator also lets users change their profile over time, illustrating how their carbon footprint changes with each action they take. This is the link to the Climate Change site: http://www.btplc.com/climatechange/

BT Ireland recognises that in our day-to-day operations, we as a business inevitably impact on the environment in a number of ways. We are cognisant of this and are committed to minimising the potentially harmful effects of our activities wherever and whenever possible.

This policy statement provides the framework on which our environmental programme is based. The policy enables us to set targets for improvement and measure progress against these targets. We continuously strive to mitigate the any harmful effects of our activities on the environment.

It’s BT Ireland’s intention to be the best provider of communications services and solutions. As a provider of electronic communications that are often used as a substitute for travel or paper based messaging, our business.already contributes to resource conservation and environmental protection.

We have undertaken to help every BT Ireland employee further understand and value their environment. Through the regular communication of our environmental objectives and actions plans to achieve these objectives, we encourage employees to implement our environmental policy in their day-to-day work and praise them for doing so.

The Chief Executive Officer of BT Ireland has ultimate responsibility for the company's environmental policy and performance, which is managed by a steering group of senior managers from each of the major functional areas. Across the BT Group, BT’s Corporate Social Responsibility Steering Group (CSRSG) oversees the implementation of all social and environmental programmes. BT's Social & Environment Report and other publications are available at our Corporate Social Responsibility website: http://www.bt.com/betterworld

Our Commitment

BT Ireland is committed to prevention of pollution and minimising the impact of its operations on the environment by means of a programme of continuous improvement. In particular BT Ireland will:

• Meet all relevant legislative and other requirements, and where appropriate exceed or supplement these by setting our own exacting standards
• Seek to reduce consumption of materials in our operations, reuse rather than dispose whenever possible, and promote recycling and the use of recycled materials,
• Design energy efficiency into new services, buildings and equipment and manage energy wisely in all operations,
• Reduce wherever practicable the level of harmful emissions,
• Sell products that are safe to use, make efficient use of resources, and which can be reused, recycled or disposed of safely,
• Work in partnership with our suppliers to minimise the impact of their operations on the environment through a quality purchasing policy
• Seek to minimise the visual, noise and other impacts on the local environment when sitting our buildings, structures and equipment,
• Work with external groups and organisations to promote the concepts and practices of environmental protection
• Introduce environmental issues through BT Ireland training programmes and encourage the implementation by all BT Ireland people of sound environmental practices.