HP partnered with Forum for the Future, a leading sustainable development think tank based in the UK, to examine how business and technology can address the threat of climate change. The project report shows how climate change will have a profound impact on every aspect of our life, and explains how business can help by showing leadership and harnessing technology. The report is intended to stimulate debate on tackling climate change and is being used within HP to stimulate discussion on the climate change challenge. See forum for the future and a podcast
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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View the interactive dashboard to track our recent performance, see progress against our 2008 goals and view our targets moving forward.
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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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Because of 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 developing strong climate change policies and advancing industry standards to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the global economy. Public policy workHP supports coordinated and cost-effective actions by governments to help businesses and individuals address climate change. In May 2008 we wrote to U.S. Senate leadership supporting strong legislation for a cap and trade system to limit GHG emissions. We also joined over 140 leading global companies in signing a communiqué from the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change at the Poznan negotiations in December 2008 in Poznan, Poland. The communiqué argued that economic conditions must not be used as an excuse to delay investments to reduce emissions. It called for an eventual treaty (to be agreed upon in Copenhagen in December 2009) based on targets for emission reductions to 2050, with immediate and deep cuts in developed countries, while developing countries should adopt economy wide targets by 2020. We encourage the development and the promotion of effective climate change policies through participation in global and local organizations such as:
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. Climate Futures
India Climate Change Photography ContestHP India and Sanctuary Magazine partnered to announce the Climate Change Photography Contest 2008 for the second year in a row. The competition aims to address complacency about climate change, showing how quality of life is being affected. Entries highlight the reality of global warming in India, the connected threats to society, and the urgent need to recognize and tackle climate change collectively. World Wildlife Fund collaborationIn 2008 we renewed and strengthened our partnership with the conservation organization WWF. Through this collaboration we work to improve our performance in environmental stewardship, sustainability and energy efficiency while enabling WWF to achieve broader, bolder and more measurable conservation impacts. Our efforts with WWF involve significant reductions in HP's global carbon footprint and also demonstrate the potential of technology and HP products to enable conservation and change consumer behavior. The partnership aims to inspire a global movement to encourage efficiency and the reduction of environmental impacts through the use of IT products. This partnership has led to the publication of a report by WWF1 identifying potential IT applications that can help save more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions. HP followed up that research with what WWF believes is the world’s first customer catalogue of low-carbon IT solutions. These are products and services currently offered by HP. (See Climate and energy—Enabling a low-carbon economy.) HP supported WWF’s Earth Hour initiative, joining cities around the world turning out the lights for an hour in March 2008. The Europe, Middle East and Africa region joined with WWF, Ashridge Business School and the European Academy of Business in Society to create a Sustainable Innovation Award for MBA and postgraduate students from 700 universities. We are also supporting:
We are expanding the focus of the partnership beyond energy and GHG emissions from our operations and products, to also include emissions in our supply chain and paper use. We believe the partnership will help HP and WWF broaden our respective spheres of influence—with governments, other NGOs and stakeholders. Industry collaborationWe work closely with other information technology companies to advance energy efficiency. For example, HP is a founding board member of The Green Grid Association, a nonprofit global consortium focused on improving data center energy efficiency. In 2007, Green Grid and the U.S. Department of Energy established a goal of making U.S. data centers 10 percent more energy efficient by 2011. Achieving the 10 percent target would reduce CO2e by approximately 6.5 million tonnes a year, equivalent to permanently removing about 1.2 million cars from the road. In addition to providing a director for the Green Grid Association's board, HP personnel led task forces creating a data center energy efficiency rating system and a metric that shows how closely total power consumption of the data center relates to the power used by the IT equipment. HP is also a board member of Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), which brings together businesses, consumers and conservation organizations to make new PCs and servers more energy efficient and to promote power management to minimize energy consumption when computers are inactive. The CSCI seeks to reduce computers’ power consumption by 50 percent by 2010, lowering global CO2e emissions by 54 million tonnes per year—equivalent to the annual emissions of 9.9 million cars. Through the Global e-Sustainability Initiative HP provides input to the European Commission’s policymaking and promotion for sustainable energy, including the European Union’s 2020 project to achieve 20 percent renewable energy share and a 20 percent reduction in GHG emissions by 2020. HP took part in the Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, to help companies better understand the climate impacts within their supply chains. Twelve member companies participated in a pilot completed in February 2008. Members distributed surveys about climate change initiatives to 328 suppliers, and 44 percent responded. The survey requested information on their overall knowledge of climate change, how it affected their company operations, a description of their reduction program and who held the responsibility for climate change within the company. It also asked about the companies’ own supply chains and product-level detail.
1World Wildlife Fund, “The potential global CO2 reductions from ICT use,” Sweden, 2008.  |
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