Partners

The first 10:10 Leader Company

KYOCERA Document Solutions UK has a long-standing and sincere commitment to reducing its own environmental impact and to promoting environmentally-efficient use of office machines. Carbon emissions reduction is a useful proxy for reducing the environmental impact of business and emerging legislation makes it an increasingly critical focus area for business. We became the first corporate supporter of the 10:10 campaign because it adopted an approach which helps to engage people across all sectors of society in reducing carbon emissions. Recognising that every employee in our company or its customers and business partners is also a private citizen, and that employee engagement is crucial for the success of any carbon abatement programme, we feel that this is important.

To kick off our 10:10 programme we created an office efficiency guide with some easy to implement ideas for cutting your office carbon emissions immediately. You can download it from the top right hand side of this page. We have also hosted events for 10:10 at the KYOCERA Technology Suite and we continue to advise on low-carbon office practice.

Working with Green Alliance on its Designing out Waste strategy

Green Alliance is a charity and independent think tank focused on effective leadership for the environment. It has a track record of over 30 years, working with the most influential leaders from the NGO and business communities. Its work generates new thinking and dialogue, and has increased political support and action for ambitious environmental solutions in the UK. 
It understands political decision-making and has helped to change policy bringing climate change and environmental issues into the mainstream. 

It pursues its aims through six strategic themes:

Political Leadership
Sustainable Economy
Third Sector
Climate and Energy Futures
Green Living
Designing Out Waste

Conscious of the waste associated with paper and consumables for office printers and copiers, KYOCERA Document Solutions UK has partnered with Green Alliance on its Designing Out Waste workstream. 

Working with Forum for the Future

Forum for the Future is a non-profit organisation working globally with business and government to create a sustainable future. It has15 years’ experience inspiring new thinking, building creative partnerships and developing practical innovations to change our world. It aims to transform the critical systems that we all depend on, such as food, energy and finance, to make them fit for the challenges of the 21st century.

Over the past 15 years, Forum for the Future has:

•changed the debate about sustainable business by highlighting the opportunities it offers, and been instrumental in altering the way leading companies operate;

•trained thousands of leaders, across society, through its master classes and Masters Programme, so they are knowledgeable about sustainable development and equipped to face the global challenges like climate change and shortages of vital resources;

•promoted long-term thinking and created shared, positive visions of tomorrow with businesses, government and NGOs, through our ground-breaking futures and scenarios work;

•sparked innovation of new products, services and business models that will make our world more sustainable.

It now seeks to transform the complex systems which serve our fundamental needs - such as food, energy and finance - so that they are fit for the 21st Century. And to do this, it is putting ‘systems innovation’ at the heart of its new strategy. 

It will focus, initially, on three critical global systems that underpin our lives and the prospects for sustainability: energy, food, finance. KYOCERA is working with Forum for the Future to understand and mitigate the energy impacts of its products and develop strategies to support customers that wish to reduce them.

Supporting Profit Through Ethics

The ability to identify genuinely responsible businesses will empower consumers and wider society. By supporting these businesses, by choosing them over their competitors, people will make profits dependent on ethics.

Profit Through Ethics is creating an identification mark for responsible businesses. The new mark will launch at the conclusion of the Profit Through Ethics project in 2012. Participating businesses will be licensed to display it on their marketing materials, e.g. their websites, advertisements, packaging, service information, etc.

This mark will raise public expectations as to what is possible and it will raise standards of ethical practice across business. It will signify that the bearer is sufficiently serious about responsibility and ethics as to prove its credentials and, further, that it is part of a movement transforming business to better serve people and planet. KYOCERA Document Solutions UK is a founding partner of the project.

Supporting the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges

Since 2008, KYOCERA Document Solutions UK has partnered the EAUC in its work to promote sustainable operation of further education establishments. The EAUC runs the Green Gown Awards, which recognise excellence in sustainability among colleges and universities, as well as running informative conferences and keeping members up to date with best practice and emerging legislation.