Measuring Progress

Planning a successful sustainability strategy requires an honest assessment of how our business operations contribute to the very challenges we’re trying to address. We now track the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of all of our owned and operated locations. Following our inventory efforts in 2008, we established our first milestone target: by 2011, we will reduce energy use in our owned and operated locations worldwide by 11 percent compared to 2007 usage.

Greenhouse gas inventory. In 2007, we measured the 2006 energy usage and GHG emissions of our facilities located in our Americas region. In 2008, we measured our 2007 energy use and GHG emissions of all of our facilities worldwide. Recently, we completed our 2008 global energy use and greenhouse gas inventory. For more detail on our 2008 inventory, see the report we recently submitted to the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Third-party verification. For our 2006 and 2007 inventories, third-party verification was performed by a verifier approved by the EPA Climate Leaders program. For 2008, our data is being third-party verified under The Climate Registry General Reporting Protocol.