RIMES Technologies, the global leader in Managed Data Services (MDS) and RegTech solutions for financial institutions, announces that it has been certified as Carbon Neutral Plus by Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps corporates and individuals reduce their carbon footprints. By investing in a wide range of global offsetting projects, RIMES has now offset all greenhouse gas (GHG) and carbon dioxide (CO2) since its creation in 1996.
Lyndsey Higgins, Head of Business Services at RIMES comments: “Sustainable business is increasingly important to our investment management clients, our employees and other stakeholders. By offsetting our total carbon emissions, we have taken a big step forward in our broader Environmental, Social and Governance goals, which are being driven internally by our steering committee. By committing to carbon neutrality, we are ensuring that RIMES – and by extension our clients – are at the forefront of sustainable business and able to deliver maximum value with minimal impact on the environment.”
John Buckley, Managing Director at Carbon Footprint added: “We are very proud to have been able to support RIMES in their goal to become a Carbon Neutral Organization. Even more so, we are absolutely delighted to see them setting such a commendable example in choosing to offset their lifetime emissions and achieve our Carbon Neutral Plus standard, which is the equivalent of carbon negative. We hope that more businesses follow RIMES’ lead as we continue to address the challenges of climate change.”
Through its work with Carbon Footprint, RIMES is supporting projects which supply clean renewable energy to the grid in Indonesia and the Philippines, provide modern efficient cooking alternatives to rural communities in India and China, and help to protect the precious Amazon Rainforest from illegal deforestation. In addition, RIMES has planted 500 trees in the UK and Kenya.