The Real Story about HP and Environmental Responsibility

• Beginning in the 1950s, Global Citizenship became a core company objective.  A key component of HP’s Global Citizenship program is Environmental sustainability. 
• In the 1980s, HP began electronics recycling.
• In the early 1990s, HP  focused on specific environmental issues – through our Design for Environment program.

For more information on HP’s Environmental sustainability, see: www.hp.com/environment

• The HP rp5700 Business Desktop PC is the first product to meet the stringent requirements that comprise the "Gold" status of Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) in the U.S. ¹ 
• HP’s business desktops were the first to meet the recently announced ENERGY STAR® 4.0 requirements – months before the new guidelines took effect.
• HP’s power management features on desktop PC’s save up to 481 KWh or 241 kgs of CO2 per year.  The CO2 emission reduction for every 12 PC’s with these features enabled is equivalent to removing a car from the road each year.
• The HP BladeSystem reduces data center thermal footprint.  A third-party report found that HP’s Thermal Logic enables the HP BladeSystem c-Class to draw 30% less power than a competitor’s similarly configured rack mounted server.  See: www.hp.com/go/bladepowerreport
• HP’s server virtualization and consolidation technologies can create significant savings in material, energy, cost, and green house gas emissions. At HP, this technology reduced server power consumption from 5 million kWh to 1.8 million kWh in one application alone. See the Real Story about HP’s Virtualization Leadership.
• HP’s storage technology can cut storage array power and cooling costs in data centers by 50 percent.²  More information on environmentally responsible HP StorageWorks offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/GreenStorage
• HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling solutions can save up to 20 - 45% of datacenter cooling costs and reduce C02 emissions by thousands of tons per year.  See the Real Story about Dynamic Smart Cooling
• HP’s Halo Collaboration Studio simulates face-to-face meetings, enabling global interactive collaboration while avoiding CO2 emissions related to travel.

HP has pledged to reduce the energy consumed by and CO2 emissions from our products and operations 20% by 2010. 

See the March 28 press release:  http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070328a.html

HP has put a stake in the ground with objective energy efficiency goals as a corporation. HP Energy Efficiency goals:  http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/gcreport/energy/goals.html

In 2006, HP was a founding sponsor of the Green Grid Alliance.  See:  http://thegreengrid.org/

In 2006, HP announced a global partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to improve the energy efficiency of our products and operations even further, enable climate researchers with technology and to provide public education on global climate change.  See: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2006/061108a.html

In 2007, HP was a launch sponsor of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.  See: http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/ 

HP is one of the founders of ASHRAE TC 9.9 which has generated the guidelines books for data centers.  See:  http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/

HP is one of the founders of the original thermal consortium on data centers that generated the Uptime power curve. HP is the first and only company to certify servers to the Uptime Fault Tolerant Power Specification.  See:  http://www.upsite.com/TUIpages/tui_certification.html

HP is working with the US EPA to drive server efficiency metrics.  See: http://www.energystar.gov/ia/products/downloads/Finalserverenergyprotocol-v1.pdf

• Ranked as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world by The Global 100³
• Named one of 10 corporate “Green Giants” in the world by Fortune Magazine⁴
• Called “Global-Warming Ready” by Newsweek Magazine⁵
• Appears on the Dow Jones Sustainability, FTSE4Good and Accountability Rating Indices

The facts show that HP is a leader in environmental responsibility.  This is not new for us. 

For more information on Environment Sustainability at HP see: www.hp.com/environment