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Partner with HP to reduce energy use, lower data center costs, and make better use of your equipment

Partner with HP to reduce energy use costs across your enterprise

The way we see it, environmental responsibility and business success go hand in hand. HP’s commitment to the environment helps us deliver on our promise to simplify your technology experiences. Every day we hear from customers who want to purchase more energy efficient products or recycle their HP technology.

Our Design for the Environment strategy helps reduce the amount of energy used by our products. It also lessens the impact of the materials used in manufacturing and makes it easier to recycle our products. When you partner with HP, you reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut power and cooling costs, and lower data center facility constraints.

Leading the way to a greener planet, a healthier business

For more than 25 years, the environment has played a key role in everything we do at HP. Our concern for the earth’s fragile ecosystem goes back to the early days of HP. Founders Dave Hewlett and Bill Packard were always concerned about our impact on local communities and the world at large.

That commitment continues through our efforts to:

» Design and produce high-quality products that are environmentally sound

» Conduct our operations in an environmentally responsible manner

» Create and maintain comprehensive environmental, health and safety policies

Helping you adapt with sustainable computing

HP scientists estimate business technology power usage consumes 415 million tons of coal per year with 864 million tons of CO2 greenhouse emissions. In a world with limited resources, we cannot continue to consume energy at our current rates.

To address this growing concern, HP has:

» Set aggressive goals to reduce our energy consumption and carbon footprint

» Helped our customers develop energy and space efficient environments

» Improved the environmental performance of our products

Reducing the carbon footprint of enterprises around the world

There's a lot of buzz around the concept of reducing your carbon footprint. By doing so, you decrease the amount of carbon dioxide released into the environment, lessening your overall environmental impact. HP reduced its own on-site greenhouse gas emissions by 31 percent.

We continue to focus on this issue by:

» Setting additional goals to reduce our greenhouse emissions

» Offering our customers solutions like consolidation and virtualization to reduce energy consumption

» Using new technologies in our operations that substitute low-carbon alternatives for carbon-intensive ones

Making recycling a way of life

Recycling technology equipment is a win-win situation for everybody. It is good for the planet and good for business. We make it easy for you to recycle the computing products you use every day.

We offer a range of programs that allow you to recycle and reuse equipment that help you:

» Manage your unwanted products through trade-in, return for cash, and donation program

» Recycle computer hardware, printing supplies, rechargeable batteries and other items

» Purchase refurbished equipment, which reduces costs and environmental impacts

Creating a greener supply chain

At HP, we maintain strict environmental standards for ourselves – and we ask our suppliers to do the same. We’ve made investing in supply chain social and environmental responsibility to meet stakeholder expectations and help you make responsible choices.

We are committed to being a positive force in the communities and we ask our suppliers to do the same by:

» Establishing specific labor, health and safety, environmental, management system, and ethic standards

» Promoting diversity among our suppliers around the world

» Setting conformance guidelines to codes of conduct that our suppliers must adhere to

Making global citizenship a part of our business

We are proud of our efforts as global stewards. Global citizenship encompasses our commitment to align our business goals with our impacts on society and the planet. It is one of our seven corporate objectives, rooted in HP’s founding values and key to our success.

We continue our energies and expertise on:

» Setting high goals in terms of corporate ethics and responsibility

» Establishing human rights and labor practices

» Reducing our impact on the environment

» Respecting and protecting the privacy of our customers, suppliers, partners and employees

» Investing in our local communities via educational and social programs

Improving energy efficiency through data center power and cooling research

The power needed to run your company’s data center and workplace is rising – as is the cost of that power. Researchers at HP Labs have been pursuing sustainable IT since the early 1990s.

Today, we can offer you technologies that help you:

» Reduce the amount of power you consume in your data center

» Work more efficiently and save money with products like the Halo telepresence and videoconferencing solution

» Lower your thermal footprint by using Data Center Thermal Assessment Services

Partnering with an industry leader

HP helps you meet your most demanding green technology challenges through a range of innovative technologies. The technologies help you reduce your environmental impact while reducing costs, lowering risks, and improving productivity.

We do this by offering you ways to:

» Build a new next-generation data center or extend the capacity and life of your existing data centers

» Drive power and cooling gains through products such as power management protection

» Reduce environmental impacts throughout the workplace with our energy-efficient business PCs, workstations, and Thin Clients

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