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In 2007, we began to publish monthly energy use and related CO2e emissions for our major U.S. facilities on our corporate
Web site. During fiscal 2008, we'll expand this data to include year-over-year
comparisons, site-level data, and data for sites outside the U.S.
As part of our commitment to transparency and sharing, we seek opportunities to engage with other businesses and organizations grappling with the challenges climate change presents. The Carbon Disclosure Project and Sun's OpenEco.org community project are two examples.
Carbon Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent, not-for-profit organization working to bring investors and corporations together to consider the implications of climate change for shareholder value and commercial operations. The CDP Web site is the largest repository of corporate GHG data in the world.
In 2007, the CDP issued its fifth survey of the GHG emissions of 2400 companies. Sun completed this survey for the first time.
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OpenEco.org
Increasingly, companies buy proprietary tools to do their GHG analysis, which can require significant investment in technology and consultation.
Not only does this discourage many organizations from assessing their GHG impacts; it also means they can rarely share their results.
We believe that by having communities work together and share information, we maximize our chances of success in facing our environmental challenges.
That's why Sun is sponsoring OpenEco.org, a new online community designed to help participating organizations
assess, track, and compare energy performance; share best practices for reducing GHG emissions; and encourage sustainable innovation. The community
will initially focus on reducing energy use in office buildings worldwide.
The OpenEco.org community will incorporate standard, approved carbon-accounting practices to ensure that participating organizations' GHG
calculations can be reported under widely accepted systems such as the World Resources Institute's GHG Protocol.
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