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• Governmental,NGO,andpublicactionsinsupport
of a transition to a low carbon economy
Lenovo is making progress in all of these areas as we
continue to work internally and externally to reduce the
environmental impact of our operations. Our initial goal
is to eliminate or offset 100% of Lenovo’s Scope 1 GHG
emissions and achieve a 10% absolute reduction in
Lenovo’s Scope 2 GHG emissions by March 31, 2011
(using FY08/09 as a baseline) were met. These goals
were met through a combination of energy efficiency
measures and the purchase of renewable energy credits
and carbon offsets. We have committed to further
purchases of renewable energy credits during FY 2011
and carbon offset purchases during FY 2011 and FY
2012. We continue to emphasize energy efficiency within
our operations. Over 40 separate energy efficiency
projects were initiated at our facilities around the world
during the past two years.
We also continue to work with external partners to
improve our ability to quantify, track and mitigate the
impacts of our supply chain and our products. Lenovo
is engaged with the Electronics Industry Citizenship
Coalition (EICC) in the development of a database to
track the GHG emissions of our supply chain. Initial
work on quantifying the greenhouse gas emissions of
Lenovo’s largest suppliers is nearing completion. This
work will be expanded during the coming year to include
water impacts of our supply chain.
We also continue our engagement in the development
of standards and tools to accurately quantify the lifetime
impact of our products. We participated as a member
of the Stakeholder Advisory Group for the World
Resources Institute’s (WRI) and the World Business
Council on Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) writing
of the new Product and Reporting Standard for the
Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. Lenovo was one of
the initial testers of the Standard using it to establish
the product carbon footprint for one of our all-in-one
desktop PCs. We will now participate as a member of
the Stakeholder Advisory Group for further work in this
area as the Carbon Trust works in conjunction with WRI
and WBCSD to develop ICT industry guidance for the
Standard.
In addition, Lenovo continues to work with other
members of the ICT industry, academia and U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency in the development
of tools to simplify and expedite determination of the
product carbon footprint for PC products. Work on a
tool for laptops is nearing completion and the project
is now transitioning to tools supporting analysis of the
impacts of desktops and visual devices.
Further details on our strategy, objectives, targets and
environmental performance are available at http://www.
lenovo.com/climate. Detailed results regarding our FY
2011 environmental performance will be published in our
annual sustainability report.
Lenovo’s Environmentally Conscious Products program
focused in FY10/11 on the following key areas:
• ProductMaterials,includingtheuseofpost-
consumer recycled content;
• ProductEnergy,includinganewfocusonproduct
carbon footprint; and
• Productpackaging,includingsizereductionand
use of environmentally preferable materials.
In the product materials area, Lenovo is a leader in the
use of recycled content in PC products, and has made
tremendous progress in the use of post-consumer
recycled content plastics. By working with Lenovo
suppliers to develop and qualify engineering grades of
post-consumer recycled content plastic (PCC), Lenovo