Climate and energy

Climate change presents significant environmental, social and economic challenges and opportunities for HP, our customers and society. We are working within our own business and with others to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas¹ (GHG) emissions from product manufacture, transport and use. The IT industry is responsible for about 2 percent of global GHG emissions. But our products and services offer great potential to help reduce energy use and emissions throughout the global economy—the other 98 percent. This represents significant opportunities for HP and our customers.

Effectively responding to climate change requires a broad coalition spanning governments, industries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals worldwide. To that end, HP is collaborating with organizations such as Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) to demonstrate business leadership in addressing climate change, advance industry standards for energy efficiency and reduce GHG emissions throughout the economy.

HP was actively engaged in the international climate policy process throughout 2009, including:

• Signing the 2009 Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change, which called for a strong and effective UN climate framework
• Supporting the Climate Group’s Climate Week event in New York in September
• Participating in the Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles in October to show support for leadership from sub-national government leaders from around the world
• Contributing to an IDC special report offering recommendations to policy makers on how information and communications technology (ICT) investments can contribute to achieving climate change goals
• Attending the COP15 UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December, to demonstrate our support for international action and advocate for the potential of IT and innovation to help the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Strategy

Our climate strategy involves harnessing the power of IT to drive greater efficiency across the global economy. The key is applying IT to transform energy-intensive and carbon-heavy processes to become more:

• Transparent—developing technologies that make energy consumption more visible throughout the economy, and transparently reporting on the performance and goals of our own supply chain, operations and products
• Efficient—making IT more efficient, from devices to data centers, and applying IT to enable automatic provision of energy, water and other resources
• Transformational—replacing energy- and carbon-intensive processes with inherently lighter-footprint digital alternatives, from business travel to business models

Greenhouse gas emissions related to HP’s business, 2009

Category (click on item for more detail)	2009 emissions [tonnes CO2e]	Level of influence*	Our actions
HP operations	1,951,000	High	We manage our facilities and data centers to reduce energy consumption.
HP employee business travel	365,800	High	Our travel policies and telepresence solutions reduce business travel.
Product manufacturing	4,100,000**	Medium	We work with our first-tier suppliers to report and reduce their energy use.
Product transport	1,700,000	Medium	We optimize distribution networks and convert to lower-energy transport modes where appropriate, but we do not control shipping operations.
Product use	Roughly an order of magnitude more than emissions from product transport	Medium	We design products and offer services to use less energy.
Product recycling (CO2e avoided)***	210,000	Medium	We offer customers a range of reuse and recycling services.

• * Refers to the level of influence HP has on this category of emissions.
• ** 2008 is the most recent year for which this data is available.
• *** According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Waste Reduction Model (WARM) Tool, CO₂e reductions from recycling are calculated per the following formula: 1.858 kg CO₂e/kg recovered electronic waste.

See Climate and energy – Operations for a discussion of GHG emissions by scope.²

1. ¹ Throughout this report, “greenhouse gas” or “GHG” refers to all greenhouse gases emitted by human activities, and “CO₂e” refers to “carbon dioxide equivalent,” the unit used to measure greenhouse gases. CO₂ is the main, but not the only, man-made greenhouse gas.
2. ² The World Resources Institute (WRI) defines Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions in its Greenhouse Gas Protocol .