| | The professional
services firm KPMG LLP
has linked with
Transport for London in
a new environmental
scheme aimed at reducing
amounts of car travel by
its staff and partners.
In the first scheme
of its kind, all of
KPMG’s 10,300 people in
the UK are being offered
an Oyster card to
encourage them to make
more use of public
transport while
travelling within London
on behalf on the firm –
as part of a
broad-ranging campaign
to minimise levels of
carbon dioxide | |
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| | emissions.
KPMG’s initiative has
been welcomed by both
the Mayor of London, Ken
Livingstone, and
Transport for London.
Dr Ashley Steel, the
KPMG UK board member who
has led the initiative,
said: “KPMG people need
to travel regularly
between our 22 offices
in the UK. If all
London-based people
replace just one taxi
journey a week with the
use of an Oyster card
then over 300 tonnes of
CO2 emissions can be
avoided over the year.
By offering Oyster cards
to all our UK people | |
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| | then even the occasional
business traveller can
take advantage of the
benefits that Oyster
cards bring while
travelling in London,
including helping to cut
CO2 emissions.”
The Oyster card will
be aligned to KPMG’s
financial systems to
allow flexible and easy
reimbursement of
business fares and the
initial £3 cost of
buying a card.
KPMG staff working
outside London will also
be encouraged to have a
card – which they can
use when they enter the
capital and join the | |
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| | London transport
network. This will also
help to avoid time
wasted in queuing.
John Griffith-Jones,
chairman and senior
partner of KPMG LLP,
said: “At KPMG, we have
made reducing our carbon
emissions a clear
strategic priority. We
recognise as a business
the importance of
managing our
environmental impact and
believe that carbon
reduction is the most
sustainable way to
achieve this.”
KPMG is the first
professional services
firm in the UK to be | |
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| | certified to ISO 14001
standard, the leading
environmental management
system standard. Among
the many green
initiatives the firm has
undertaken is the
purchase of renewable
electricity for more
than 90% of its
electricity needs since
May 2001. This has
reduced CO2 emissions by
72,000 tonnes.
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