Eco Responsibility

Sun's Carbon Footprint

Sun is firm in its commitment to a 20 percent reduction of our U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over 2002 levels by 2012, which was made as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders program. We have taken a giant leap in establishing such an aggressive GHG reduction goal. Achieving our goal will take a concerted effort as well as a coordinated strategy, and will involve the following steps:

• Continue to fine-tune our 2002 baseline GHG emissions data (estimated at 263,465 metric tons), on which our 20 percent reduction goal is based
• Establish tracking systems to capture and measure our GHG emissions, and report our findings publicly and against our baseline data
• Develop a global baseline and set reduction targets for all operations worldwide by the end of calendar year 2007
• Continue to reduce energy usage in our datacenters, converting them into eco responsible facilities
• Develop an alternative energy strategy

Sun's Energy Usage

More than 90 percent of Sun's carbon footprint comes from energy use. We are committed to openly sharing our energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions data and encourage other organizations to do the same.