This is the eighth consecutive year HP has reported its global citizenship performance, reflecting our ongoing commitment to transparency. Our Global Citizenship Report 2008 describes the company's policies, programs and performance as we strive to balance our business goals with our impacts on society and the planet.
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We developed a version of our report with customers in mind. It features HP solutions and best practices to help enterprises and other organizations address pressing global citizenship issues.
Our five pillars
We focus our global citizenship initiatives on five areas: ethics and compliance, human rights and labor practices, environmental sustainability, privacy, and social investment. Collectively, these areas span our entire business, influencing our priorities, operations, product development and brand differentiation.
Making the business case
Customers are giving global citizenship greater weight in their IT purchasing decisions, making it increasingly important to our business. Global citizenship is also key to responding to new opportunities, increasing the efficiency our operations, strengthening our relationships with stakeholders, and attracting and retaining exceptional employees.
Upholding Standards of Business Conduct
Regardless of tenure, title or responsibilities, everyone at HP is expected to be an ethical leader. Last year, we trained 97% of employees in our Standards of Business Conduct (SBC) and introduced a simpler, values-based version of the SBC in more than 20 languages.
A central hub for compliance
In 2008, we strengthened leadership of our Compliance Office to promote greater consistency across our global organization. The office works with other groups within HP to provide a holistic view of governance, risk and compliance to senior management.
Raising supply chain standards
HP is leading a new approach to strengthening social and environmental standards in the global IT supply chain. We collaborate with local NGOs to train suppliers in building capabilities and making systemic improvements to protect workers and the environment.
Fostering employee success
Our HP culture rewards performance, provides opportunities for training and advancement, and encourages open, honest communications and respect for all. We remain focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce.
Supply chain audit performance
We have made it easy to review in-depth results of our supplier audits—either globally or by region—with an interactive tool that presents data, explains major causes of nonconformance and highlights challenges and HP’s response.
Engaging society
HP unconditionally supports human rights and promotes higher standards in our employment practices and throughout our supply chain. We collaborate with others to share our progress in these areas and raise awareness of human rights issues.
Sustainable design
In 2008, we introduced the HP Eco Highlights label, which helps customers understand the environmental attributes of more than 115 products. Through our Design for Environment program, we focus on energy efficiency, materials innovation and design for recyclability.
Climate and energy
HP was the first IT company to report the greenhouse gas emissions of key suppliers, and we are on track to reduce the energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions of our operations and products to 25% below 2005 levels by 2010.
Showcasing impact
Visit our gallery of sustainable design example—new to this year’s report—highlighting HP solutions that increase productivity and lower costs while improving environmental sustainability.
Reuse and recycling
In 2008, we recovered for reuse 75 million pounds (34,000 tonnes) of hardware units and recycled 265 million pounds (120,000 tonnes) of electronic products and supplies, increases of 16% and 6% compared with 2007.
HP’s accountability model
Our groundbreaking approach to protecting privacy goes beyond legal and industry norms. We review all decisions related to privacy not only for compliance but also for our values, customer expectations and a range of potential business risks, and hold ourselves accountable for our actions.
Collaborating on solutions
HP works with regulators and nongovernmental organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative and the European Commission to advance thinking and develop new frameworks for protecting the electronic flow of information across borders.
Innovations in education
We believe technology can be a catalyst in addressing inequalities in education and fostering the next generation of skilled workers and entrepreneurs. In 2008, HP invested nearly $20 million in programs that apply technology in creative ways to transform the learning experience, particularly in science, technology and engineering, and math.
Entrepreneurship education
HP supports organizations and programs that help cultivate socially minded entrepreneurs, particularly in developing regions. Our goal is to increase the number of entrepreneurs using technology to launch and grow small businesses, crucial to creating jobs and spurring economic growth in local communities.
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Using IT to enable a low-carbon, sustainable economy While HP is engaged in many initiatives described throughout the Climate and energy section to reduce the energy consumption of products in manufacture, transport and use, our greatest contribution to tackling climate change will lie in developing products and services to support a broad-based transformation towards a low-carbon economy. This is a key element in our climate strategy. The IT industry is responsible for about 2 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.1 But we have the potential to help reduce significantly the other 98 percent of emissions. HP partnered with the environmental organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to examine the potential for IT to enable GHG emission reductions in several sectors of the economy.2 It estimated annual savings between 1.1 billion tonnes CO2e and 8.7 billion tonnes CO2e by 2030 (up to 15 percent of 2008 global GHG emissions3). The greatest potential is seen in smart vehicles and transport and e-commerce, but substantial savings are also estimated in sectors ranging from buildings to energy supply. The European Union believes that IT can help it achieve ambitious GHG emission reduction targets and is focusing on electricity generation and distribution, buildings and lighting.4 We report some potential HP solutions later on this page. HP has developed IT solutions that can help reduce GHG emissions, in three ways:
HP is sponsoring the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge, a competition to find the most innovative solution to addressing the effects of climate change. The winner, who will be selected by a team of judges including HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd, will receive a $75,000 prize to turn the best idea into reality.
Low-carbon IT solutionsWWF developed an approach for classifying IT solutions and their potential to reduce GHG emissions. This table outlines those categories.
We offer or are developing products and solutions in each of these areas. BuildingsIn many countries, buildings are the largest user of energy—40 percent of the total in the European Union and 48 percent in the United States.5 Information Technology can reduce energy use in existing buildings as well as help to make new buildings more energy efficient.
Transport and communicationIT can help reduce emissions by substituting virtual solutions for physical travel and transport. For example, HP Halo Telepresence Solutions (see case study) allows people to conduct remote meetings yet feel that they are just across the table from each other. HP SkyRoom will bring high-definition collaboration to the desktop, making virtual meetings even more accessible to a larger number of people. Commerce and servicesConducting business transactions electronically and substituting physical products with digital ones can reduce GHG emissions. Decreasing paper use is an area of special focus because every tonne of virgin paper results in 1.5 tonnes of CO2e emissions.
Industrial productionIndustrial production is responsible for almost 40 percent of global GHG emissions, but the figure can be as high as 80 percent of the total in rapidly industrializing countries.6 Dematerialization and on-demand production can decrease emissions by reducing the need for physical materials and the associated manufacture, storage and transport.
Knowledge and behaviorIT can play a central role in providing the information required to implement effective policies and strategies with far-reaching sustainability benefits. Delivering relevant information to end users, such as real-time energy usage, can change behavior and decrease GHG emissions.
See our Low-carbon IT solution white paper for more information.
1 Gartner: Conceptualizing Green IT and Data Center Power and Cooling Issues, September 2007.
2 The potential global CO2 reductions from ICT use, WWF, Sweden, 2008. www.wwf.se 3 2008 global emissions estimated at 55bn tonnes, Breaking the Climate Deadlock, A Global Deal for Our Low-Carbon Future, report to G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit, June 2008. 4 European Commission Communication, May 13, 2008. 5 The potential global CO2 reductions from ICT use, WWF, Sweden, 2008. www.wwf.se. 6 WWF Sweden, as above.   |
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