Citrix Online Works with PURE to Offset Carbon

Released on: October 22, 2007, 7:22 am

Press Release Author: Louise Andrews

Industry: Environment

Press Release Summary: Citrix Online, a leading provider in EMEA of real-time remote
access and online collaboration services, and a division of Citrix Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: CTXS), today announces that it has worked with PURE, the Clean Planet Trust
and UK-registered charity (No.1112249), to offset carbon generated by the EMEA-based
business.

Press Release Body: Major milestone in Citrix Online's bid to reduce its carbon
emissions

Chalfont, UK. - 22 October, 2007: Citrix Online, a leading provider in EMEA of
real-time remote access and online collaboration services, and a division of Citrix
Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), today announces that it has worked with PURE, the
Clean Planet Trust and UK-registered charity (No.1112249), to offset carbon
generated by the EMEA-based business. This marks a significant milestone in Citrix
Online's campaign to reduce overall carbon emissions.
Citrix Online worked with PURE to measure its carbon footprint between September
2006 to August 2007. This was calculated in respect of Citrix Online's regional
direct energy usage and electricity, and also business travel by air and road, in
accordance with the relevant scopes of the World Resources Institute Greenhouse Gas
Protocol, the most widely used international accounting tool to understand, quantify
and manage greenhouse gas emissions.
To offset its emissions, Citrix Online has made a cash donation to PURE. The charity
will use the donation to financially support Kyoto emissions projects around the
world by buying their carbon credits. PURE then cancels these credits, removing them
from carbon trading schemes and therefore limiting the amount of carbon dioxide that
polluters are allowed to release into the atmosphere.
The Citrix Online EMEA-based group is now working closely with PURE to roll out a
number of initiatives to further engage employees and reduce the overall carbon
footprint of the European-based business.
Simon Presswell, Regional Vice President, Citrix Online Division, EMEA, said, "The
Citrix Online products GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC enable businesses to effectively
work and collaborate remotely, and throughout the company we use our own tools to
keep travel costs to a minimum. Citrix Online is committed to reducing its carbon
emissions even further and our partnership with PURE marks an important stage in our
programme to achieve this."

"Every business has a role to play in reducing carbon emissions," said Phil Wolski
of PURE. "Offsetting those residual emissions that can't or won't be reduced is, of
course, the final step to be taken after measurement and reduction of those
emissions that can. We are looking forward to helping Citrix Online and its
employees further develop its programme of tangible emission reductions that will
make significant and lasting changes throughout their organisation to reduce their
overall carbon footprint, and encourage their clients and partners to share their
positive experiences."

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Notes to Editors

About PURE
PURE is the first UK registered charity (No. 1112249) dedicated to combating
climate change by carbon offsetting. PURE supports the proposed UK Government Code
of Best Practice for carbon offsetting. For more information visit
www.puretrust.org.uk or contact PURE on 020 7382 7815 or via info@puretrust.org.uk
.

About Citrix Online
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), is a leading
provider of easy-to-use, on-demand applications for remote desktop access, Web
conferencing and collaboration. Its award-winning services, which are used by more
than 22,000 businesses and hundreds of thousands of individual subscribers, include:
Citrix® GoToMyPC for remote PC access; Citrix® GoToAssistT for live remote support;
Citrix® GoToMeeting® for online meetings; and Citrix® GoToWebinarT for
do-it-yourself Web events. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Citrix Online has
offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.citrixonline.com.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in
application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely
on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance,
highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100
companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of
small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance
partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.

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