2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Business Travel

Travel is an important element of our global business, but it has a significant environmental impact. Our corporate travel provider arranges approximately 90% of our total business travel and reports miles traveled and associated GHG emissions for all trips. (Air travel is the major contributor to these emissions.)

• In the 2007 calendar year, CO₂ emissions from business travel were 76,314 metric tons, a 9.5% increase from 2006. This was primarily due to a proportional increase in air travel.
• Emissions from travel by our Asia/Pacific region rose by 46% compared with 2006. This region comprises 18% of total emissions from business travel, compared with 17.5% of revenue.

We're considering various ways to minimize impacts from our travel:

• Reducing the number of face-to-face meetings by investing in increased teleconferencing and videoconferencing
• Designing and implementing region-specific programs, such as analyzing travel between specific cities and identifying ways to reduce trips or use greener transport options
• Encouraging rail instead of air travel where possible
• Monitoring and controlling increases in emissions in Europe and Asia/Pacific

SMART Commuting

Sun has supported alternative travel options for our employees around the world since 1991. The Sun Microsystems Alternative Resources for Transportation (SMART) commuting program in the United States provides subsidies for employees who take public transport and operates employee shuttles among our San Francisco Bay Area campuses. We're looking into expanding the program and switching the existing shuttle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel. We're also developing an audit process to measure the program's success. Outside the United States, employees have other incentives to commute responsibly, such as shuttles shared with nearby companies and public transport passes.

In 2007, we set a goal to increase participation in the SMART program by 5%. We achieved a 10% increase in participation in fiscal 2008. Though it's likely that some of this increase was the result of a broader employee outreach effort on the part of SMART staff, we believe substantial increases in gasoline prices were the single largest motivating factor. The team now receives daily requests for program information, and our intercampus shuttles in the San Francisco Bay Area are often at capacity.

In fiscal 2009, we'll look closely at ways to improve our alternative transport and commuting programs and increase participation in them. We'll report our findings and actions in our 2009 CSR report.

The following chart shows the use of our SunWay shuttle service in fiscal 2008. Totals show the number of rides given per month. Since most people using the service are traveling to and from work, we can assume that the number of users is roughly half the number of rides given.