MD7 Earns Climate-neutral Certification in Europe

MD7, a wireless infrastructure consultancy with its North American headquarters in Allen, Texas, and international headquarters in Dublin, said that it has been re-certified as climate-neutral company by Climate Partner. It said it has reduced the CO2 footprint of its European offices in 2020 compared with 2019, despite an increase in the number of employees. MD7’s headquarters in Dublin will be its third office to be fully run by green power, the company said. It said that the total emissions that were offset by MD7 in 2020 are equivalent to almost 300 tons of CO2.

“Reducing our carbon emissions across all of our offices despite growing really fast is a massive achievement,” said Mark Christenson, MD7 president of international. “It also makes me happy to see our office in Düsseldorf move to green energy, making it the second, after Maastricht, to be run by green electricity.”

Reducing MD7’s carbon footprint by almost 60 percent year-on-year saved an enormous amount of CO2 emissions, said Aaron Rodrigo, MD7 program manager.

“Many of these saved emissions relate to a significantly lower number of flights – which to some degree is of course related to the very limited business traveling activities during the pandemic,” Rodrigo said. “However, even as business travel has started to take off the ground again in 2021, we still keep our emissions from flights at a minimum.”

MD7 said it is seeking to further increase its carbon offsetting over the coming years, and recently switched its power provider for their headquarters in Dublin to make it their third office in Europe to be fully run by green electricity. MD7 also said it plans to reduce its CO2 emissions per full-time employee by 10 percent year-on-year until 2025 compared to 2019. Strategically, the company said, MD7’s goal is to not only make all of its current and future offices fully green, but also to become carbon positive by offsetting more CO2 than it produces by 2022.