GO investing to reduce impact on the environment

The world is today marking World Earth Day, encouraging everyone across the globe to invest in the planet. Companies worldwide are increasingly putting environmental sustainability high on their agendas – a topic that is influencing both business strategy, the supply chain and consumer purchasing decisions.

At GO, attitudes towards climate change, increased awareness and a deep-set need for real change is pushing the company to take tangible action to reduce its impact on the environment, and in its quest to become a purposeful-led organisation, it has put environmental sustainability as a pillar in its strategic programme.

Its intention is that while, as a company, it undertakes efforts to reduce its carbon footprint, it also enables its customers to reduce theirs. Becoming carbon neutral or reducing our carbon footprint to the bare minimum, is a long-term goal and GO has started by outing an ambitious programme in place.

For the third consecutive year, GO has measured its carbon emissions in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, which is the world’s most widely used greenhouse gas accounting standards for organisations. The...