QinetiQ is a leading international defence and security technology company, developing innovative technology-based solutions and products and providing technology-rich support services for government organisations, such as the UK MOD and the US DoD, and for commercial customers around the world.

QinetiQ is committed to embedding the principle of environmental sustainability across all of its business activities.

The Group’s key achievement in 2007 were in its energy management where QinetiQ, in partnership with the Group’s facilities management provider, has been awarded accreditation with the Carbon Trust for its energy management. This reflects the culmination of a six-year drive towards greater energy efficiency.

Across the year, employees were provided with advice on how best to conserve energy, enabling QinetiQ to reduce its UK energy consumption by 4.5%.

The Group has also sought to address wider carbon footprint issues through investment in PhD research at Cardiff University that will provide a better understanding of how greenhouse gases released from aircraft gas turbine engines are formed, transported and, in the longer term, can be mitigated through technological or regulatory means.