The well-known global commerce platform, eBay, has decided it’s time to flex its green muscles and has pledged a 15 per cent corporate emissions reduction by 2012.
As the world’s leading online marketplace, eBay already has a relatively small carbon footprint. Most of its environmental impact is the result of energy used by its data centers. Thus, eBay announced that it hopes to reach its ambitious goal by unveiling a new LEED certified gold standard data center in 2010 that will account for more than a third of its global data infrastructure.
They also intend to implement new ways to repurpose and extend the life of hardware, thus reducing e-waste. Further, the company has set up a Green Team comprised of about 2000 employees in 23 countries whose job is to make eBay a greener business primarily by encouraging their global workforce of over 15,000 employees to support green projects and to live and work in a more sustainable fashion.
eBay as become one of the first internet companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions figures through the Carbon Disclosure Project, giving greater transparency to their reduction target commitments.
