Zoom Recognizes Uber, HP, Genpact, Autodesk and Other Enterprise Customers Who Have Reduced CO2 Emissions

Top 10 Customers Avoided Over 685K Metric Tons of CO2 in 90 Days

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) today announced its Green Leader customers, the ten companies estimated to be avoiding the most carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions by replacing face-to-face, in-person meetings with face-to-face Zoom video meetings. In total, the top ten were estimated to have avoided 685,205 metric tons of CO₂ in the 90 days preceding October 31, 2019, the equivalent of the annual CO₂ emissions from 148,958 cars, and the equivalent of 11,420,077 trees planted.

The CO₂ Cost of Business Travel
While face-to-face meetings are essential to sustain and grow businesses, hosting these meetings in person can have adverse effects on the environment. Local meetings reached by car commute create literally tons of CO₂ a year. With an average daily round trip commute of 30 miles, the annual CO₂ emissions for a typical passenger vehicle is 4.6 metric tons (epa.gov). Air travel is even less efficient. A single economy class round-trip flight from San Francisco (SFO) to New York (LGA) expels 1.4 tons of CO₂ (co2.myclimate.org). While air travel currently accounts for 2.5 percent of global CO₂ emissions, this emissions source is growing at a faster rate than predicted in previous, already dire, projections (nytimes.com).

The Green Leaders
The top ten Green Leaders that were estimated to have avoided the most CO₂ emissions through the use of Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform during the three months preceding October 31, 2019 were:

1. A multinational database software company
2. A multinational computer technology company
3. HP, Inc.
4. VMware, Inc.
5. A Fortune 50 Retail Company
6. Sanofi Aventis Groupe
7. A $2B+ cloud services leader
8. Autodesk, Inc.
9. Genpact
10. Uber Technologies

The Green Leader in the #1 spot, saved 170,363 metric tons of CO2 in the 90 days preceding October 31, 2019, the equivalent of the annual CO2 emissions from 37,035 cars, and the equivalent of 2,893,382 trees planted. In total, the top ten were estimated to have avoided 685,205 metric tons of CO₂ in the 90 days preceding October 31, 2019, the equivalent of the annual CO₂ emissions from 148,958 cars, and the equivalent of 11,420,077 trees planted. The vast majority of CO2 emissions savings realized was from plane travel, as opposed to motor vehicle travel (80:1 ratio).