Logica Hosts Seventh World Environment Forum
Friday, June 05, 2009: Logica, an IT and business services company, yesterday hosted the Seventh World Environment (WE) Forum at its campus in Bengaluru. The WE Forum, initiated by Logica, Tesco and IFMA (International Facility Management Association) in the year 2007, provides a collaborative platform for socially responsible corporates, NGOs and environmentalists to discuss and share the most prevalent environmental issues and the initiatives to combat the same.
Elaborating on the success of the forum, Mahesh V of IFMA said, "The World Environment Forum meets have helped the members to understand and enhance their knowledge in the area of environment, health and safety and create significant impact in their performance in day to day operations. IFMA will continue to support all such noble initiatives that will help its members, partners and organisations involved in the development of the profession and create a sustainable environment."
Speaking at the forum, Abhay Gupte, chief executive officer, Logica India, mentioned, "Driving sustainability has always been Logica's priority and we have responded actively to the challenges and opportunities around climate change and the environment. With our consistent focus on lowering carbon emission, Logica in India achieved a remarkable reduction on carbon footprint by 11.3 per cent over the last 18 months. We have set another ambitious yet achievable target for the next one year to reduce carbon footprint across our facilities by 10 per cent."
Captain Dayalu Arasappa, head, support and facilities and chief security officer, Tesco, mentioned, "We at Tesco have undertaken conscious initiatives to go green. Simple steps like using solar-water heating for our kitchens and gyms, switching to LED lighting system, maintaining infrastructure software to hibernate our desktop systems have considerably reduced our carbon emissions. Further, as a retailer, we will print the carbon footprint on each of our products, to help consumers make an informed choice while making a purchase," added Captain Dayalu Arasappa, head, support and facilities and chief security officer, Tesco.
The closing presentation on best practices shared by Mahesh Bhalla, director general manager, consumer business, Dell, highlighted the organisation's goal to become the greenest company in the world. "Dell's commitment is to minimise direct impact/carbon neutrality, empower consumers to go green and enable a low carbon economy. As an organisation we have achieved carbon neutrality and we continue to strive for better benchmarks in future."
Inspired by the promising and novel forum, Anil Gupta, chief executive officer, ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt Ltd, offered to host the next meet at the company's premises in August 2009.