2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

CSR Report: Eco Responsibility

Summary of Eco Goals
Stated Goal
Time
Focus on reducing the environmental impact of all our major events, including JavaOne, CommunityOne, and Tech Days; we'll collect relevant data to establish a baseline for each of these events and then use that data to set measurable goals moving forward.
Fiscal 2009
GHG Emissions
Reduce global Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2 emissions from global operations by 20% over 2007 levels by 2015
Fiscal 2015
Reduce year-over-year growth in global business travel emissions to 5%
Fiscal 2009
Buildings and Operations
Reduce operational energy use (excluding datacenters) by 15,500 MWh, or 4%, from fiscal 2008
Fiscal 2009
Retrocommission Sun-owned buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area and Colorado
Fiscal 2009
Achieve LEED certification for our MPK10 building in Menlo Park, California
Fiscal 2009
Travel and Transit
Conduct a Sun transportation summit to review program components and effectiveness, develop a unified strategy for transportation support, and set up a metrics and reporting framework
Fiscal 2009
Develop a pretax transit subsidy program
Fiscal 2009
Water Use
Expand tracking of water usage to all regions, focusing in particular on obtaining data for buildings with more than 75,000 square feet of active space, or document why this data cannot be obtained
Fiscal 2009
Choose three sites to target for water reduction from the list of facilities for which water-use data is available
Fiscal 2009
Waste Management
Improve waste and recycling data collection and reporting
Ongoing
Reduce total waste-to-landfill ratio by 2% over fiscal 2008
Fiscal 2009
Profile the waste/recycle programs at all sites, including those where the waste and recycle programs are managed by the landlord (rather than Sun)
Fiscal 2009
Eco Innovation
Publish energy-consumption data for all products
Fiscal 2009
Drive increased energy efficiency in microprocessors, systems, and storage through investments in targeted R&D
Ongoing
Provide tools for datacenter customers to monitor power consumption of Sun products
Fiscal 2009
Exceed industry targets for energy efficiency of power supplies used in Sun products
Fiscal 2009
Product Takeback
Report the following data internally quarterly: pounds put on the market; pounds returned; percent reused, recycled, or committed to landfills
Beginning in FY 2009
Develop a schedule to include consistent reporting for percentage of old products returned and recycled in Canada, China, India, Japan, and Australia
FY 2010
Implement (in the United States) a distributed Product Recycling Center model closer to the source points of our product and service parts returns, thus reducing transportation miles by more than 50%
FY 2010
Expand the standard returns and recycling process to other countries, starting with those with the most sales
FY 2010