A presentation on the various initiatives taken by Wipro Ltd. in order to make the cpompany more green and to reduce their carbon footprints.

1. GREEN IT MATTERS
AT WIPRO LTD
GREEN IT AND IT FOR GREEN
Presented By:
LBSIM, Delhi
2013-14
Rinky Sachdeva
Rohit Jain
Atul Mathur

2. FLOW OF PRESENTATION
 Introduction
Green IT and IT for Green
Global Warming
 IT industry overview
 CSR at Wipro
 Green IT initiatives taken at Wipro
 Global Competitors
 Conclusion

3.  Green IT : Optimum use of ICT to manage sustainability of Enterprise
operations and Supply Chain as well as its products, services and resources.
 “Green IT: The New Industry Shock Wave” By Gartner Inc, ICT industry
accounted for 2% of worldwide CO2 emissions.
 Emissions came mainly from data centers having servers, monitors and other
components.
 A desktop computer- 100 watts power/hr or 2.4 KWhs/day.
 Coal needed for this- 714 pounds/year, burning of which releases a ton of
CO2
 For every 100 KW of energy supplied to a data center only 3 KWs are used
efficiently
The Other side
 IT industry helps to bring down 98% of CO2 emissions by non IT industry.
 Examples: Substitution of Travelling by Teleconferencing, Telecommuting and
minimization of transactional delays with e-governance

4. Percentage
6%
Printers 6%
LAN Office Telecoms 7%
7%
9%
40%
Mobile Telecoms 9%
Fixed-Line Telecoms 15%
15%
Servers, including cooling
23%
23%
PC's and
Monitors(excluding
embodied energy) 40%

5. Acc to “K. Raghuraman”, head of Green IT at Wipro Green:
It is about opportunities for IT companies to generate green
revenue by reducing carbon footprint of IT as well as non-IT
industries
IT for Green :When IT is used to reduce Carbon footprint of
non IT industry
Small wastages at IT has led to ICT industry contribution
to Global warming

6. GLOBAL WARMING
 Global Warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due
to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane etc.
caused due to emissions
 IPCC (1988) by WMO and UNEP published series of reports on climate
change laying foundations for measures to counteract such change
 It brought Business enterprises into alert about environment regulations
 Since Feb 2003, EU has revisited regulations on Waste Electrical and
Electronic Equipment
 Since July 2005, Restricted use of hazardous substances and promotion of
recycling in Electronic products
 Eco-design requirements for energy using products
 Since Oct 2007, Us has put emission limits on utility, transportation and
manufacturing industries.

7. Contd...
 Kyoto Protocol: International agreement adopted in Japan in
1997 to set a cap on GHG emissions for 37 industrialized
countries and 27 EU nations so as to reduce it to 5% against
1990 levels over 2008-2012.
 As of 2009, 186 countries had ratified Kyoto protocol including
India.
 A large no. business houses have taken CSR initiatives networking with NGO’s with grassroot expertise to take care of
delivery ends
 The goal is to take care of those at the bottom of the pyramid.

8. IT INDUSTRY: AN OVERVIEW
 It is worth US $1.36 trn in 2008 compared to US $ 1 trn in 2001
 Hardware constitutes 40% of IT spending: Application systems, client
systems, storage and peripheral systems
Impact on Environment:
 Use of toxic chemicals such as mercury, lead and diphenyls in hardware
components generates non degradable e –waste.
 Acer and Lenovo were the first to eliminate usage of hazardous chemicals
from their PC’s.
 Wipro in 2006 took steps to track product lifecycle from manufacture to
final disposal.
 Wipro is among the only 3 companies in India to implement “take back
services”.

9. Contd...
Software comprises of System software and Application
software
Today Software companies are putting in place code
review processes for their programmers
It has led to Green software development i.e. the
development of programs which can be executed with
minimum processing capabilities.

10. Contd...
Services sector in India started in mid 1990’s when
Software companies started doing data entry tasks for
their clients in U.S.
ITES companies had maximum opportunities for driving IT
for Green. They can provide solutions for clients which not
only reduces carbon footprints but is helpful in making
new products and can increase their revenue.

11. COMPANY BACKGROUND
Wipro was established in Maharashtra to manufacture
hydrogenated vegetable oil
It diversified into lighting and hydraulics manufacturing
before getting into IT
Wipro in 1980 became a global corporation in IT enabled
services headquartered in Bangalore
It has 4 business segments: IT services, IT
products, Infrastructure Engineering and consumer &
lighting

12. Contd...
 It generates 70% of its’ revenues from clients in U.S and E.U
 It remain insulated from environment regulations in these countries
because of its’ offshoring model.
Efficiency improvement initiatives taken at Wipro:
 Six Sigma (1997)
 Lean(2004)
 Agile(2005)
-One of the earliest companies to get ISO 14001 certificate
-Net energy consumption at Wipro has come down from 360 KWhs to 309
KWhs
-Meets 52% of its’ water requirements through rain water harvesting and
recycling

13. Contd...
 In its’ Bangalore campus, waste from cafeteria turns into
Methane for lighting burners
 Harvested rain water is used to cool air conditioning towers
 Waste paper is recycled into writing pads
 Micro windmill lights bulbs throughout the campus
 All flouroscent lamps replaced with LED bulbs
 Since 2003, it has cut water usage in all it’s offices by nearly
66%

14. CSR AT WIPRO
 Debuted in CSR through “ Wipro applying Thought” in
schools in 2001
 Networked with 30 organizations in 17 provinces in
India, it conducted a regular Education Programme for
school Principals to help them with skills to generate a
facilitative environment for change processes
 Also conducted special programmes for teachers to
increase the quaity of primary education in India
 Wipro-cares , an in-house programme meant for
employees and their family members to participate in
social causes.

15. Contd...
 Eco-Eye, a charter for ecological sustainability in 2008
 It had a governing council, consisted of senior managers which
had direct support from top management
 Goals:
Green procurement policy: To ask its’ top 50 suppliers to
disclose their GHG and water footprint
Customer Stewardship: To help customers reduce their carbon
footprint
One Wipro model: Offer solutions with IT for Green, Green
IT, clean energy, water and lighting

16. WIPRO’S ECOEYE DEPLOYMENT FRAMEWORK
Wipro
Goal
Road-Map
Metrics
Time line
Becoming
Carbon- Nuetral
Reduce Usage
•GHG
Emissions
•Energy
Payback
March 2014
•Net Water
Consumed
March 2014
Internal
Ops
Extended Circle of Influence
Employees
Community
Suppliers
Partners
Customers
Holistic Engagement
Use Renewable
Resources
Becoming WaterPositive
Reduce Usage
Leverage and building on traditional focus on energy and water efficiency at Wipro
Recycle/Reuse
Settings new
standards in
recycling waste
Reduce/Recycl
e/Absorb
Initiatives to be targeted in each area for different stakeholders
Multiple initiatives in-progress simultaneously
•Recycle
Ratio
60 on-going projects
Eco-friendly
Composition
Phased Implementations
-Start within and expand to outside
Achieving
biodiversityfootprint
-
•Area
-
Reporting on
Sustainability
-
-
-
Managing Climate
Change
-
-
-
Reducing
personal footprint
-
-
-
-Phase 1 : Greater focus within Wipro & ‘Community’
-Phase 2 : Greater focus across ‘Extended Circle of Influence’
-Target ‘Quick-Win’ Initiatives
Advocacy
groups

17. GREEN IT INITIATIVES
Hosted Intelligent Document Management
E-Freight cargo suite of tools
Intelligent smart device technology
Unified Communication strategy
Virtualization policy
Carbon Management solution

18. TURNING WIPRO GREEN

19. COMPULSION FOR GREEN IT AT WIPRO
Compulsi
on
Element
Drivers
Kyoto protocol
Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) exempted countries like China and India from GHG emission reduction targets
E-waste
India has a draft policy on e-waste which will soon become a regulatory policy.
Weather
Global warming has resulted in extreme weather conditions around the world, impacting Wipro‘s business
Rise in Sea
Level
The IPCC has predicted a minimum rise in sea levels of 2 feet by 2100 which can have a severely damaging impact
on the infrastructure assets of Wipro which has operations in several coastal cities in India.
Human Health
Outbreaks of malaria and dengue are likely to be more common in tropical countries like India due to global
warming, affecting Wipro‘s workforce and its operations.
Energy Scarcity
India experiences an average deficit of 14% in peak hours and 9% in non-peak hours. The increasing gap in demandsupply can result in high operational costs to the company
Water Scarcity
India‘s demand for water will exceed supply by the year 2020, at present, India uses an estimated 829 billion
cubic yards of water annually and in the near future, this will rise to exceed the 1.4 trillion cubic yards that it can
supply.
Regulatory
Physical
General
Demand
Scarcity
Operations of customer segments like Insurance, Energy and Utility can be impacted by climate change. It may
increase their cost of operations and reduce the volume of their business with Wipro.

20. PROGRESS IN ECOLOGY AT WIPRO
Category
Business
Units
Year of
Launch
Highlights
Wipro Infotech
June 2007
•Offers radiation free monitors & energy conserving components
•Uses recyclable and bio-degradable packing materials
•Compliant with restriction of Hazardous Substances(RoHS) Regulations
Sept 2006
•Monitors hardware through a process called -Wipro Green Computing spanning product lifecycle
•Offers 17 physical facilities all over India collecting retired computers, laptops and servers from customers and
facilitating their recycling
Products
Greenware
Services
E-Waste Disposal
Managing IT
Infrastructure
IT Services and
Products
•Optimises server operations to reduce floor foot-print
•Implements remote monitoring for increased efficiency
Managing
Facilities
IT Services &
Products
• Diagnoses, measures and improves energy requirements of data centres
• Uses renewable energy sources to reduce carbon foot print
• Manages airflow, lighting and cooling systems for energy efficiency
Other Initiatives
Eco-Consortium
Wipro Infotech
Oct 2006
•Facilitates a consortium among Sun Microsystems, APC-MGE, Hitachi Data Systems, AMD and Wipro
Infotech to help customers with green issues specific to data centres.
•Tests for walk-in customers at a hardware lab in Bengalore to confirm that they are “green compliant”
Green Testing Lab
Wipro Water
Wipro Infrastructure
Engineering
Mar 2008
• Provides complete water treatment solutions to all types of industries
• Leads the market for high purity water products in India used by pharma industry
Wipro EcoEnergy
Wipro Infrastructure
Engineering
June 2008
• Provides customised solutions in clean energy to clients in all industries

21. GLOBAL COMPETITORS
IBM: In 2007 unveiled “Project Big Green” focussing on
efficient use of energy in 30 mn sqft of data centers
The goal was to double their computing capacity without
increasing their carbon footprint
It has positioned it’s financing business segment “IBM
Global Financing” as a provider of Green Wrapper for
financing data centers to achieve energy efficiency.

22. Contd...
 HP owned e-waste recycling plants was the first step in
reclaiming not just steel and plastic but even toxic chemicals
 It also audited it’s vendors for eco-friendliness
 SAP AG had also in 2009 put its’ focus on sustainability for
both its’ own operations and solutions for customers