Informatics commits to environment sustainability

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Informatics International Limited and Converse Solutions Ltd, two of Informatics Group’s fastest growing subsidiaries were certified with the carbon neutral certification by the Carbon Consulting Company (CCC), Sri Lanka’s premier carbon footprint expert.

For the past few months Informatics has been taking actions for shrinking the carbon footprint of its subsidiaries to ensure environment sustainability as a part of their CSR policy. Achieving Carbon Neutral status exhibits that Informatics is steadfast to environmental sustainability by initially reducing and then offsetting its entire carbon output.

Group Director of Informatics, Hasith Wickramasinghe proudly stated, “We are one of the foremost Software Companies in Asia to achieve the Carbon Neutral Certification with our vision to ‘Go Green’. Achieving Carbon Neutral status proves that Informatics is very much concerned of our environment and Informatics hopes to offset more of its subsidiaries to get carbon neutral certification in 2012. We would like to thank and congratulate Carbon Consulting Company for helping us to accomplish this task.”

Informatics is one of the oldest and largest companies in Sri Lanka and it has created the holding of companies whose focus is on IT industry, education and agriculture. For nearly three decades, with an unblemished track record, the company has been offering innovative and quality IT solutions to clients in almost all vertical markets. Informatics provides end-to-end software solutions in nearly all industry verticals ranging from banking, insurance, government to telecommunications and many more.

Thanks to an unblemished track record it has managed to build mutually profitable, outsourcing partnerships with clients worldwide.The Carbon Consulting Company(CCC) has been created with the purpose of helping organisations reduce their environmental impact and maximise the CSR and marketing opportunities arising from these efforts. “The CCC’s mission is to help corporate leaders and decision makers develop the skill sets and knowledge base that would be required for survival in the dawning era of a low carbon economy,” said Carbon Consulting Company COO Sanith Wijeyeratne.

The CCC is a carbon footprint expert certified company, and is accredited by the ‘Carbon Trust’, the UK Government’s carbon standards body. It is also an official certifier of the Carbon Neutral Company of the UK.

“Carbon neutral certification is a proud reflection of what is important to all of us at Informatics; we are conscious of our impact on the environment and regularly take steps to minimise the carbon emission as a business unit and as individuals. Achieving a carbon-neutral rating will also assist Informatics to present itself to the international community as a responsible and proactive company adhering to the key values of Mother Nature. We would like to share our experience with other IT companies to follow suit as well,” stated Informatics Group Director Hiran Wickramasinghe.