BoardPAC a Global Board Meeting Automation company qualifies to be Carbon Neutral

BoardPAC marked a key milestone in its Environment Social and Governance (ESG) journey by being certified by the Sri Lanka Climate Fund as being carbon neutral for the year 2021.  The certification was carried out by Sri Lanka Climate Fund functioning under the Ministry of Environment using the ISO 14064 – 1:2018 standard.

Dr. Anil Jasinghe, Secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Chairman of Sri Lanka Climate Fund stated “I would like to congratulate BoardPAC in embarking and successfully achieving Carbon Neutral certification using the globally accepted ISO standard.  We encourage other companies in Sri Lanka to embark on this process, so we can build a sustainable IT industry”.

Ms Lakmini Wijesundera, the CEO of BoardPAC (Pvt) Ltd, said, “Our product is marketed and used by the Board of Directors of most of the Major banks and corporations globally.  We enable Boards to have a paperless secure method of conducting meetings and maintaining records.  Currently Boards are very focused on ESG and making their corporations sustainable.  As a facilitator in that process we felt it was important to be carbon neutral ourselves”.

The Sri Lanka Climate Fund is a government-owned company established under the Companies Act No. 7 of 2007 of Sri Lanka, serving the purpose of building a new low-carbon business economy and low-carbon life patterns. While optimizing carbon emission performance in existing facilities, they are looking to explore the potential for new effective low carbon solutions through innovative strategies and collaboration with local and international markets.

The ISO 14064 – 1:2018 is a global standard for Corporations to assess their organization wide use of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and discharges. Once the GHG emissions are quantified and certified organizations can offset the emissions by investing in UN globally approved project to receive the carbon neutral certification.

Mr Vijendran Watson, the Chairman of BoardPAC (Pvt) Ltd, said “I am pleased that the management has undertaken this initiative and become the first to be Carbon Neutral in the Board meeting Automation space.  Our users who are Directors in the top corporates will I am sure, be happy to be using a product that has a carbon neutral certification.”

BoardPAC is an award-winning, multinational, paperless board meeting automation software provider recognised for driving simple, secure, sustainable, and experiential communications for the board and executive members. Leading corporations such as Petronas, Deloitte, EY, Mercedes Benz, Prudential, Hong Leong Financial Group, Stock Exchange of Malaysia, The Reserve Bank of India, Bidcorp, Denel, Murray & Roberts, SITA, and Novus Holdings are just some of BoardPAC’s success stories. BoardPAC has also been recognised as one of Asia’s Best Workplaces 2021 and Sri Lanka’s Best Workplaces 2020/2021 by Great Place To Work®.

 

Image caption : From left: Ms.Harshani Abeyrathnathna Verification Manager,SLCF, Mr.Chamara CEO,SLCF,Mr.Buddhika Abeygooneratne, Head of Operations & systems,BoardPAC, Dr.Anil Jasinghe Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Mr.Vijendran Watson, Chairman,BoardPAC, Mr.Rajitha Kuruppumulle, Chief Operating Officer, BoardPAC and Mr.Thusitha Jayanath, Operations Manager, BoardPAC

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