Collaboration

Due to the breadth and complexity of the issues involved, addressing climate change effectively requires partnership across many different types of organizations. In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other technology companies, HP is encouraging legislative action on energy and climate policies to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the global economy.

Public policy work

HP supports coordinated and cost-effective actions by governments to help businesses and individuals address climate change. In 2009, a delegation of HP executives participated in the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen (COP15) to show support for the international negotiations to mitigate climate change and to demonstrate how IT and innovation are critical to achieving a low-carbon economy.

We encourage the development and promotion of effective climate change policies through participation in organizations such as:

• The Climate Group
• Combat Climate Change
• The International Climate Change Partnership
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

As part of our collaboration with WWF, HP joined 11 other companies in 2009 in an open WWF letter to the U.S. Senate urging legislators to pass comprehensive climate change legislation. We also participated in the Ceres and Clean Economy Network “We Can Lead” campaign and signed on to two statements calling for comprehensive climate change legislation in the United States (see example ). HP was also active in Behind the Green , an educational initiative created by the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign to promote the role IT plays in helping to improve energy efficiency.

For more information on our public policy activities in this area, including our position and guiding principles for climate change mitigation strategy, see our climate change global issue brief.

World Wildlife Fund collaboration

HP continues to work closely with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on key environmental issues including climate change. Together, we are leveraging our experience in technology innovation and environmental conservation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy use, protect forests, influence policy makers on climate change and showcase IT solutions for a low-carbon economy. (See more detail in Stakeholder engagement.)

Industry collaboration

We work closely with other IT companies to advance energy efficiency. Examples include the following:

• HP is a founding board member of The Green Grid Association , a nonprofit global consortium focused on improving data center energy efficiency.
• HP is a board member of Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), which brings together businesses, consumers and conservation organizations working for more energy-efficient PCs and servers.
• HP is a member of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and contributed to the development of a U.S. Addendum to the Smart2020 report . The addendum, published in 2009, applies the Smart2020 analysis to the U.S. economy and makes practical policy recommendations.
• HP is working in partnerships to establish better standardization of GHG emissions measurement in supply chains.
• HP works with other leading firms through the Smart Energy Alliance to help utilities transform their energy transmission and distribution operations.