Climate Friendly Energy Policy
Our Climate Friendly Energy Policy guides our effort to reduce both facility and transportation related emissions. The policy identifies pathways to be followed, including:
- Energy efficiency improvements in all of our operations;
- Cogeneration—on-site generation of electricity and recovery of the waste heat to potentially achieve overall efficiencies of more than 80 percent;
- On-site renewable energy that produces no CO2 emissions;
- Renewable electric purchases;
- Carbon trading and sequestration
The results of these efforts have not only positively impacted the environment but have also reduced our operating costs.
Climate Policy Initiatives
We actively work to help shape responsible climate and energy policy in the United States and around the world. We are a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), as well as a signatory of the Copenhagen and Cancun Communiqués, which called on world leaders to sign a climate agreement.
Since 2003, we have been disclosing our energy use to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). We believe that completing this inventory and reporting the results publicly comprise the first step in better greenhouse gas management (see our reports at www.cdproject.net). In 2012, our report achieved the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI). We track and report most of our Scope 1 & 2 emissions sources, but we continue to face challenges in collecting meaningful Scope 3 emissions data, which we currently provide for business travel only. We also continue to participate with the CDP’s Supply Chain program, encouraging our suppliers to measure their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and report them publicly on our behalf. In 2012, 139 of the 156 suppliers that we requested to participate in the CDP Supply Chain Program did so, up from 35 participating suppliers in 2009.