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.
View the interactive dashboard to track our recent performance, see progress against our 2008 goals and view our targets moving forward.
If you'd like a hard copy of our report, use the custom report tool to generate a PDF with the information that interests you most.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Highlights in 2008
4 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, compared with 2007 
91.3 percent of nonhazardous waste diverted from landfill 
20,000 square meters of carpet selected for its positive environmental attributes installed in offices globally HP owns and leases facilities in more than 170 countries, a global scale that brings obligations as well as opportunities to have a positive impact on communities and the environment. Managing our operations responsibly is a cornerstone of our commitment to environmental sustainability. Our priorities are to reduce our consumption of energy and other resources, and to limit the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and waste we produce. We are making progress. In 2008, we reduced our GHG emissions associated with energy use by 4 percent compared with 2007 in absolute terms and 13 percent normalized to revenue. (See Climate and Energy—Operations.) We diverted more than 91 percent of our waste from landfills. In addition, we are continuing our HP Workplace Transformation program, which we launched in 2006 to improve energy efficiency and our use of space worldwide. These ongoing improvements bolster our environmental performance, support our reputation as a responsible business and create substantial cost savings for HP. We monitor other areas of our environmental impact, including the greenhouse gases associated with fuel consumed by HP-owned vehicles and in our business travel, and the volume of water used in our facilities. We also manage and monitor the processes used to manufacture our products in our facilities and report on key indicators, including PFCs, chemical emissions and releases, and ozone-depleting substances. Our environment, health and safety (EHS) management system ensures we comply with regulations and meet company standards across all HP facilities. Scope of this section
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