Environment

 

As a leading organiser of events all around the world we recognise the impact that our business can have on the environment. UBM’s principal environmental issues are energy usage, waste recycling, transport, and paper sourcing and usage. Over the past few years we have made significant progress in measuring and reducing the environmental impact of our UK businesses. The graphs below show how we have improved over the period.

In 2010 the UBM Board set the objective of producing a global Carbon Report, championed by CFO Bob Gray, to measure environmental outputs for UBM as whole and implement initiatives to reduce negative impacts on the environment. 

2010 environmental initiatives and successes include:

• Achieving the Carbon Trust Standard in the UK.
• Several of our US offices qualifying for the Energy Star Rating.
• Signing up to the 10–10 worldwide initiative working towards a 10% reduction in carbon emissions for 2010.
• Completing a server visualisation programme to reduce wasteful processing power.
• Consolidation of various sites to maximise space and energy efficiency.
• Significant work undertaken by UBM Live towards BS 8901 accreditation for sustainable events.
• Recycling 91.5% of waste at Ludgate House our principal UK office (exceeding our 90% target).