Earth Day 2024: Contributing to the protection of our planet

Earth Day, established in 1970, is an annual event which seeks to safeguard our planet and fight for a brighter future. Esker is committed to contributing to the protection of our planet by controlling our environmental footprint. 

Earth Day is an important reminder to shift our focus to protecting the beautiful planet that we call home. It is a day to focus on educating others about environmental issues, to help raise awareness of pollution, renewable energy, and ways that people can take steps to be greener.

Positive-Sum Growth

There’s more to business than the bottom line. That’s why Esker believes in equipping you with technology that creates positive-sum growth, which is a fancy way of saying that when your company succeeds, it never happens at the expense of any team, individual or enterprise in your business ecosystem — everyone wins!

What does this mean for the Planet?

Future growth depends on environmental sustainability. Fortunately, that’s what Esker’s global cloud platform is all about, giving you tools that translate into real results like:

• Less Paper used in day-to-day activities, helping to save trees & reduce wasteful practices.
• Less Equipment needed to support manual operations, promoting long-term sustainability.
• Less Carbon by using cloud computing, which has shown to reduce emissions up to 93%

Reducing Esker’s Environmental Footprint
Esker is also strongly committed to reducing the environmental footprint of our own business activities.
Beginning in 2018, in France, where our Lyon Head Office is based, Esker established processes for determining its carbon emissions, and has since extended these to all of its worldwide subsidiaries.
You can read more about this in our Impact Report.

Globally, we have many initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint.

• Replanting: a wide variety of tree species is one of the pillars of the strategy to remove carbon emissions from Earth’s atmosphere and protect biodiversity. With Esker’s support, Reforest’Action, a non-profit organisation engaging in a unique approach they call “crowdplanting”, more than 19,250 trees have been planted in India, Haiti and Tanzania since 2019.
• Data Centres & Energy Efficiency: Esker chooses environmentally responsible vendors whenever possible. For example, all new Esker customers are hosted by default on Microsoft Azure, which uses energy from renewable resources for a significant portion of its data centres, and bases its billing model on server resource usage, thereby encouraging moderation.
• Responsible Product Development: Esker ensures that its R&D teams are attentive to the digital footprint of software operations by building optimised services and energy efficiency into its solutions. Esker also conducts regular internal conferences on the challenges of digital sobriety, led by the founder of GreenIT.fr.
• Life Cycle of IT Equipment: Esker strives to extend the lifecycle of company-owned IT equipment and electronic devices as much as possible, through in-house maintenance, vendor support, or employee buy-back programmes in exchange for donations to charities of their choosing.
• Waste Recycling: We have waste recycling at our mail production facilities, and within all subsidiary offices. In addition, 100% of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is recycled.
• Mobility & Business Travel: To encourage the use of low-carbon modes of transport, Esker offers a variety of incentives: electric car fleets, bike and scooter parking, mileage reimbursement for bicycle use, and public transport compensation.

You can read more about our environmental efforts on our website.

Locally, here in the UK, one of our current focuses is on our Esker goodies. We are trying to source sustainable promotional giveaway items, such as our metal water bottles, recycled cork pens, compostable and all natural ingredient jellybean pouches, recycled paper notebooks and sustainable cotton canvas bags. We also have recycling points around our offices, and electric car charging points on-site.

Let’s all work together to ensure the protection of our beautiful planet.

Learn more about Esker’s ESG initiatives here.