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Eco Responsibility

At Sun, the first step in being eco responsible is "greening" our business, or minimizing the environmental impact of our own operations. From carbon emissions to energy usage and the efficiency of our datacenters, we are determined to integrate eco principles into every aspect of our operations and deliver value for all of our stakeholders, including the environment.


Sun's Carbon Footprint

Sun is proud to have reduced our US GHG emissions 23% between 2002 and 2007, achieving our first U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders goal 5 years early. Our new commitment is to reduce GHG emissions from our global operations by 20% over 2007 levels by 2015. This is our most ambitious reduction target yet, and achieving our goal will take a concerted effort as well as a coordinated strategy. Some of the key components of our strategy include:

  • Pushing for increased efficiency across our entire portfolio including in our datacenters, where we will continue to leverage our technology and expertise to make them more sustainable and share what we learn with our customers.
  • Refine tracking systems and tools such as OpenEco.org to capture and measure our GHG emissions, and report our findings publicly and against our baseline data.
  • Continue to identify and implement the use of alternative energy where it makes financial sense.


OpenEco.org

OpenEco.org is a global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation. Sun uses OpenEco.org to calculate and track emissions from our worldwide operations.

Learn more at openeco.org


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.

 
 
 
Sun Microsystems, Inc. – April 2009 Energy Use/CO2 Emissions
Campus Electricity
(MWh)
Natural Gas
(MMBTU)
CO2e
(Metric Tons)
Austin, TX 1,037 N/A 623
Broomfield, CO 5,995 4,018 5,334
Burlington, MA -- -- --
Guillemont Park, UK 1,759 417 877
Linlithgow, UK 1,310 N/A 637
Louisville, CO 84 N/A 72
Hillsboro, OR 1,421 87 586
Menlo Park, CA 5,028 3,341 1,829
San Diego, CA 932 454 330
Santa Clara, CA 4,924 1,417 1,693
Sunnyvale, CA 1,750 104 580
Campus Totals 24,239 9,838 12,560
 
Sun Total (all sites) 30,838 10,013 16,019
 
CO2e calculated using OpenEco.org.
-- = data not available
N/A = no gas service
MWh = megawatt hours
MMBTU = million British thermal units

Sun's 2009 CSR Report

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