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Corporate social responsibility
• The continued advancement of our climate change
goals. In 2012, we set a long-term goal to reduce our
energy use and our carbon footprint by 10 percent by
the end of 2016. To date, we’ve already reduced car-
bon emissions by more than 24 percent and energy
consumption by 22 percent.
• Recognition as both a CDP Climate Performance
Leader and Disclosure Leader for the second straight
year. We were one of only 27 S&P 500 companies
named to both lists.
• More employee involvement. Several employees
formed a grassroots Green Team whose members
have coordinated a variety of environmental events,
including two office supply giveaways—keeping
an estimated 5,000 pounds of materials out of
the landfill.
• Prioritizing sustainability during our multi-year
campus renovation. For example, to date we’ve
recycled more than 90 percent of the materials
removed—metals, carpet, drywall, furniture, etc.,
which exceeds the LEED guidelines target of 70 per-
cent for construction waste.
$13,600,000
in more than 700 community
organizations in 13 different
countries around
the globe.
3,500
employees contributed
over 22,650 hours of
volunteer time off.
24 Principal
Through our foundation and corporate
contributions, we invested over
Online version link to https://www.principal.com/about-us/corporate-citizenship
Our 2015 sustainability achievements include: