EVRY climbs the climate rankings

(Oslo, 23 October 2014) EVRY is the most environmentally friendly IT business in Norway and Sweden according to a new international climate report. This is primarily due to its systematic work on virtualisation and cloud services and its construction of a new data centre with world-class environmental standards.

"It is both pleasing and motivating to have scored so highly in this report, and indeed to be ranked first in our two home markets. The fact that we are well ahead of many large companies in other industries - including companies we often admire - is a strong endorsement of the measures we take to reduce our impact on the environment. This is something that we should be delighted about. At the same time, we have to continue with these measures, and indeed delivering Future Proof and building the new data centre at Fet will ensure we maintain our world-class environmental performance", comments Håvard Larsen, Executive Vice President at EVRY.

Improved score

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an international environmental organisation that evaluates companies' efforts to reduce emissions. The evaluation criteria include not only companies' actual emissions, but also the extent of the environmental measures they take and their ability to measure and manage their emissions from year to year. Importance is also placed on the comprehensiveness of companies' environmental reporting and on their observance of reporting deadlines.

CDP is funded by investors who between them have assets totalling USD 92 trillion. The investors in question put pressure on companies around the world to take environmental concerns seriously and to work systematically to ensure they grow in a sustainable way. One of CDP's partners is the Norwegian insurance company KLP Forsikring.

This year, EVRY received a score of 91 points out of a possible 100. This is an improvement on last year's score of 89. EVRY's performance in relation to environmental action was also assessed. Companies are graded on a scale that run from A to D, with A being the best score possible. EVRY has also improved in this area compared with last year when it scored B, as this year it scored A and so for the first time was included in the Climate Performance Leadership Index, along with two other Norwegian companies.