Climate Saver Initiative: HP’s partnership with WWF

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At HP, we realize our own strength and believe in exercising our influence for good, but we also know that we cannot do it alone. In 2006, we launched a joint initiative with WWF to combat climate change around the globe. Supporting the Earth Hour campaign and joining WWF Climate Savers Initiative (watch our video) are just the latest steps in a series of different joint programmes across the world.

At a Climate Savers summit held in Tokyo in February, HP pledged to reduce emissions from operations and the use of its products by six million tons below 2005 levels by 2010. In addition, the company committed to reduce the energy consumption by 15 percent in its operations based on 2005 levels, while achieving a 25 percent reduction in the energy used by its products and operations combined below 2005 levels by 2010.

“WWF commends HP for its strong commitment to energy reductions—not only within its own operations, but in placing a strong emphasis on increasing energy efficiency in its products,” said Carter Roberts, WWF-US President and CEO. “HP’s bold actions should serve as a model for other technology companies seeking to transform the way they do business to help protect the planet.”

At the Climate Savers Tokyo summit, companies from around the world gathered to discuss business strategies to reduce climate change. During the summit, HP said it will sign the Tokyo Declaration – a call to action and renewed commitment on global warming.

HP has already made great strides in reducing its emissions through operational efficiency and product recycling. In 2007, HP announced it would reduce energy use from its products and operations by 20 percent over 2005 levels by the end of 2010. But by the end of October 2007, HP had already reached a 19.2 percent reduction, so it strengthened the goal further to 25 percent.

HP made further progress in January 2008 when it announced a commitment to reduce the energy consumption of its volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent by 2010, and today it is working to consolidate its 85 data centers worldwide into six data centers with high-efficiency servers and cooling technology.

Our main joint project in EMEA focuses on finding ways in which strategic, far-sighted use of information and communications technology (ICT) can help our customers reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In the future, companies will have to actively seek out opportunities to make climate change a driver for innovation and profit. This pioneering project is an opportunity for HP to demonstrate its leadership in the ICT sector, turning the current climate challenge into a business opportunity.

About Climate Savers
WWF’s Climate Savers currently comprises 14 major international companies committed to reducing their total emissions by over 10 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. Climate Savers companies were among the first to recognize that climate change poses both risks and opportunities to business.

Climate Savers is a WWF business initiative founded in 1999 to mobilize companies to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Targets agreed with WWF must be demonstrably more ambitious than previously planned or communicated by the company, placing the companies at the forefront of emissions reductions in their particular sectors.

A Climate Savers agreement involves negotiations between WWF, the company concerned and independent technical experts who later monitor and verify compliance with the agreement.

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