“ A few years ago , we worked with EDF on our water footprint . We ’ re always looking at every aspect of our operations ”
— Shannon Thomas Carroll , Director of Global Environmental Sustainability at AT & T or less energy . “ We have a public goal around that . We have a public goal to reduce our fleet emissions by 30 %. We have lots of public goals that are already tagged at this work and within the business units . They just have their heads down and are doing the really hard work to achieve this . When we come into departments and explain it ’ s really about the work that they ’ re already doing , the light bulbs go off and they become really good business partners . We ’ re constantly looking at the landscape in terms of the environment . A few years ago , we worked with EDF on our water footprint for example . We ’ re always looking at every aspect of our operations .”
Technology is driving sustainability and AT & T is largely a technology company thus possessing a read edge when it comes to finding solutions . “ I would say just about everything we do has a technology component ,” Carroll explains . “ For example , we ’ ve got a project called Icon . It ’ s basically our internal IoT solution , where we ’ ve put sensors on all types of internal equipment , including network equipment ,
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