Environmental commitment

 

Each of the local entities that make up Orange Business are key players in working towards the overarching goals of the Lead the Future strategy to reduce carbon footprint by 45% by 2030. 

Orange Business recognizes that sustainable operations are crucial to supporting our strategy of being a market leader in the digital services space. In order to support this commitment we were early adopters of ISO 14001 and 50001 for our data centers in Norway and Sweden, and our 14001 certifications also extends to our offices in these countries as well as in the Netherlands. These certifications are proof of our commitment as well as tools for systematic development in our work to reduce environmental impact.

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Green Act Program

Orange Business’s Green Act Program

Launched in 2019, Orange Business’s Green Act program integrates environmental issues into our processes and those of our stakeholders through circular economy practices, optimization of energy consumption and methods for measuring and modelling our CO2 emissions.

The best renewable energy is the one we produce ourselves. As a step towards carbon neutrality we have built solar panels on the roof of one of our data centers.

More details on our Green Act Program can be found in our presentation on the left.

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Green Act Program

Orange Business’s environmental policy

The Orange Business environmental policy details the directions and commitments made under our Lead the Future strategy to reduce our carbon footprint by 45% by 2030.

  • Action plans and objectives within the framework of our Green Act program
  • Implementation of Environmental Management Systems at our sites in compliance with ISO 14001

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Helping the environment

Our focus: measuring and minimizing the ecological impact of our operations, while supporting our clients in their sustainable digital transformation.

Our goal: achieve net zero carbon by 2040.

We work to promote a healthy social culture where new approaches, methods, and ideas are encouraged. This means regularly modernizing our operational methodology, including improving waste sorting, equipment reuse, energy efficiency, and pollution prevention in our data centers. 

Through our environmental approach to everything from choosing IT equipment, procurement processes, energy use, equipment re-use, waste management and circular economy, we contribute to a greener IT industry.

  • Environmental energy use

    Operating large, central IT platforms requires server capacity and large energy consumption. Data centers are naturally high consumers of energy and equipment, so we have always focused on energy efficiency and reuse. 

    We purchase all electricity on the Norwegian and Swedish markets, where at least 95% or the power comes from hydropower or other renewable sources. This ensures that our data centers operate on the cleanest energy produced and contributes to keeping CO2 emissions low. 

    We design our own operating environments and choose partners carefully to optimize capacity and scale solutions to avoid unnecessary energy consumption. We prefer virtualization to physical hardware.

  • Joint efforts

    In our organization, we are aware of everyday environmental issues. For example, our offices have time-controlled lighting and we use LEDs in our data centers. We emphasize low energy consumption for workstations and strive to use products that are eco-labelled.

    Orange Business is committed to becoming paperless and has a well-organized waste management system.

    Our purchasing policy is in favor of products with a low environmental footprint, and we impose strict requirements on suppliers. 

  • Teleworking and travel activities

    We have a hybrid way of working policy which allows for extensive remote work, helping to avoid travel. Remote work contributes to a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in urban and long-distance transport. 
    Our travel policy encourages limiting travel, as well as choosing the use of the most environmentally friendly transport possible. We encourage public transport and joint travel.

Energy efficiency

Energy efficiency for data centers is measured in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and is a standard way of measuring power usage in the industry. PUE can help us determine if we need to do energy efficiency improvements.

PUE = total energy consumption of the data center / energy consumption related to IT equipment.

The optimal PUE value is 1.0, while average PUE Worldwide is 1,58, and for Europe the average is reported to be 1,6 (2023). (Source: Uptime Institute Global Data Centre Survey 2024)

In 2023, we achieved an average PUE of 1.27 for our Data centres in Norway and Sweden.

ISO certifications and additional information

Orange Business is ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certified. Annual internal and external revisions document operational data, achievements of environmental targets and improvement processes.

Through environmental management of all IT equipment for our data centers, purchasing, energy use, reuse and waste management, we want to improve the IT-industry’s impact on the environment.

 

Our ISO certifications can be found at:

 

The environmental policy for our ISO scope:

Waste management policy:

Our environmental strategies for our data centers:

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