- What efforts has your corporation taken to protect the water, plants and wildlife in the communities in which it is located?
- It is the policy of CenturyLink to comply with all environmental laws, to make responsible environmental management a company priority and, where necessary, to establish detailed compliance plans that manage environmental risks in day-to-day operations.
- What is the governance structure at CenturyLink with respect to environmental sustainability?
- Environmental sustainability programs within CenturyLink are administered under the direction of the Senior Vice President and Treasurer. This executive position reports to the CFO.
- What is the Carbon Disclosure Project?
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent, nonprofit organization which acts as an intermediary between shareholders and corporations on all climate change-related issues, providing climate change data from the world’s largest corporations to institutional investors in the global marketplace.
Qwest’s (acquired by CenturyLink in 2011) participation in CDP, which began in 2006, is one important mechanism through which Qwest discloses its greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), primarily to the global investment community.
- What steps has CenturyLink taken to reduce energy consumption in its facilities?
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CenturyLink’s IT department has implemented initiatives to reduce energy consumption, save costs and reduce CenturyLink’s carbon footprint. These projects include decommissioning unused servers and replacing old power hungry Uninterrupted Power Systems (UPS) equipment with more efficient UPS equipment and implementing hot aisle/cold aisle concepts with new server installations, The efforts have resulted in an estimated annual energy savings of nearly 7 million kilowatt hours per year (kWh/year), which is equivalent to 565,483 gallons of gasoline.
As an active member and contributor to the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), CenturyLink is working alongside other industry members to, among other things, identify and promote energy efficient technologies and equipment.
CenturyLink is also a member of the ATIS Exploratory Green Group (EGG), aimed at developing recommendations and sharing best management practices in the area of environmental sustainability for the telecommunications industry.
- How do CenturyLink’s products enable its customers to reduce their environmental impact?
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CenturyLink helps customers go green with products and services that use environmentally friendly architectures such as IP and Ethernet in order to, among other things:
- Create virtual environments – collaboration ware, webcams
- Move to online billing, autopay, and fax to email (reducing paper waste)
- Minimize their carbon footprints by reducing, in particular, air travel