Atos at COP26: Global decarbonization leader underlines pivotal role of digital innovation in fight against climate change

Paris, Glasgow – November four, 2021,

In its participation and engagement at Glasgow COP26 this week Atos will emphasize escalating proof of the purpose that new and rising digital alternatives enjoy in aiding organisations of every single description lessen emissions.

In demonstrating its leading world-wide decarbonization credentials via a dedication to offset residual emissions by 2028 along with introducing simple alternatives for its client foundation as nicely as important R&D financial investment in long run digital technologies aimed at lowering emissions in new and effective methods, Atos is pressing the case for accelerated development towards net-zero by using its delegation of senior digital gurus attending the summit.

Talking at a panel arranged by the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Adjust (UNFCCC) tomorrow, Nourdine Bihmane, Worldwide Main Delivery Officer and Head of Internet-Zero Transformation at Atos, will make the case for digital, not only as an enabler of the changeover to net-zero but as a important accelerator of this method.

Forward of the panel celebration, Nourdine Bihmane explained: “I consider a net-zero long run is doable, but we ought to get daring motion on a world-wide scale. On this journey that we require to speed up, digital is a lever to guidance both of those personal and community sectors. Information is at the centre of this, to make precise and well timed conclusions to evaluate, lessen and then clear away surplus CO2 from the environment. At Atos, we have developed an stop-to-stop portfolio leveraging both of those technological know-how and character-primarily based alternatives to guidance this vital changeover for our customers.”

In excess of the course of COP26, Atos will:

• Interact with world-wide business leaders from the technological know-how sector, community sector, and other industries to increase information of the scale of the sustainability challenge and discuss how they can function collaboratively to tackle it. This function is supported by a modern once-a-year report from EcoAct, an Atos business, which features Local weather Reporting General performance investigation rating the best twenty companies in the FTSE 100, DOW thirty and EURO STOXX fifty for weather disclosure, aiding enterprises in the decarbonization area understand how they are carrying out towards their weather goals.
• Just take a central purpose in the DEFRA Tech for Local weather Motion to take a look at and propose technologies and improvements for developing resilience, mitigating emissions, and achieving net-zero by 2050 in alignment with the IPCC suggestions, as nicely as the essential purpose secure digital applications enjoy in slicing carbon emissions.
• Propose concrete motion via innovation this sort of as Terra² a revolutionary cell application that supplies useful weather knowledge enabling final decision makers and influencers to make knowledge-driven conclusions, supporting the COP26 ambition.

Atos supplies a backdrop to COP26 motion with Digital Eyesight: COP26 – its modern impression paper inspecting how corporations in every single sector can harness digital technological know-how to speed up development to net-zero targets and condition a sustainable long run, with contributions from Atos gurus and senior figures in business and politics.

Alongside this, an write-up from Atos British isles and Northern Europe CEO Clay Van Doren – ‘Green Cloud: How collaboration is unlocking the inexperienced potential of cloud computing’ –has been printed in techUK’s most recent report, Local weather Tech: The Innovators, introduced at the organisation’s COP26 Reception at the Trades Corridor of Glasgow very last evening.

Clay Van Doren, CEO, British isles & Ireland and Northern Europe at Atos, explained: “As a direct actor in the decarbonization area offering both of those actionable alternatives now, and R&D financial investment for the extensive-term, Atos calls on governments to seize this momentous option for urgent collective motion to supply lasting change. Possessing committed to net-zero by 2028 and as a signatory of the Local weather Pledge ranked Quantity 1 in the IT services sector by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, we will direct the demand supporting governments and enterprises to reach net-zero. That is why we are taking a complete and active purpose in COP26.”

Ranked Quantity 1 in the IT services sector by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) Globe and Europe, Atos gives an stop-to-stop digital method to permit decarbonization and supply important change for customers and partners on their journey to net-zero. The business has its very own dedication to lessen the world-wide carbon emissions less than its management and affect by fifty% by 2025, and to offset its residual emissions by 2028 – seven yrs forward of the 2035 target formerly set by the business.

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About Atos

Atos is a world-wide leader in digital transformation with 107,000 staff and once-a-year income of above € eleven billion. European range one in cybersecurity, cloud and high effectiveness computing, the Group supplies customized stop-to-stop alternatives for all industries in 71 nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization services and products and solutions, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized digital for its customers. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on Euronext Paris and provided on the CAC 40 ESG and Next twenty Paris Stock Indexes.

The function of Atos is to assistance design and style the long run of the details area. Its abilities and services guidance the enhancement of information, education and learning and analysis in a multicultural method and lead to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the planet, the Group allows its buyers and staff, and users of societies at substantial to reside, function and establish sustainably, in a secure and secure details area.

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