While launching 'Eco Chapters' at the Wipro Campus, company's Infrastructure Engineering and Corporate Vice -President (Social Initiatives) Chief Eexcutive Anurag Behar said, at present, an estimated 70 per cent of Leed-certified buildings are lit by energy efficient Wipro products.
Eco chapters has been launched under the umbrella eco-eye, a programme driven to ensure environmental sustainability, aimed at engaging all Wipro stakeholders, including employees, partners, suppliers, customers and immediate communities, in its agenda to step up measures to protect the environment.
As part of the green initiative, there have been efforts to design products and solutions that reduced hazardous waste and focuses on enhancing environmental sustainability, Wipro B Delivery and Location Head Hyderabad Krishna Murthy said.
Wipro has also been helping customers deal with e-waste like safe disposal of hardware and aims at becoming a carbon neutral, water positive organisation, achieving a defined level of biodiversity foot print, he said.
Wipro also aims to achieve transparency in sustainability reporting and incorporate the expected effects of climate change and other areas of environmental degradation into its risk strategy, he added.
