A look into Low-carbon Office in Practice

Yin Jiang

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China

Abstract: Low-carbon office is the critical process for social transition, the inevitable trend in social sustainable development, which has several forms such as paper-free office, teleconferencing and office automation to work together. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the difficulties and measures of low-carbon office employed in enterprises and the effectiveness and negativity of paper-free office in order to exploit the potential for sustainability with comparison to the paper-based office. The research highlights the benefits of low-carbon office in terms of energy conservation and environment protection: reducing cost of resources and measuring standards of low carbonization interior office area, which decreases the expenditure of wasteful paper, meanwhile to ensure that people work in a healthy office environment.

Keywords: Paper-free office; Low-carbon Economy; Evaluation standards