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Intel Releases CSR Report, Environmental Goals

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Intel has released its 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report, which includes new 2020 environmental goals for the chipmaker to drive improvement in its manufacturing operations and the energy efficiency of its products.

Intel’s new 2020 environmental goals include:

  • Reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on a per chip basis by 2020 from 2010 levels.
  • Design all new buildings to a minimum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification between 2010 and 2020.
  • Increase the energy efficiency of notebook computers and data center products 25 times by 2020 from 2010 levels.
  • Achieve additional energy savings of 1.4 billion kWh from 2012 to 2015, and publish additional energy conservation targets for 2016–2020 in its 2012 report.
  • Reduce water use on a per chip basis below 2010 levels by 2020.
  • Achieve zero chemical waste to landfill by 2020.

Other highlights from the 2011 report include:

Supply Chain Responsibility

  • Intel was again recognized in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 list for excellence in supply chain management, ranking 16th in 2011, up from 18th in 2010 and 25th in 2009.
  • To address the issue of conflict minerals, through the end of 2011, Intel had identified 98 smelter sites and visited 48 of them in 16 countries to lay the groundwork for third-party audits. Intel’s goal is to demonstrate that its microprocessors are validated as conflict-free for tantalum by the end of 2012, and to manufacture the world’s first microprocessor fully validated as conflict-free across all four minerals (gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten) by the end of 2013.

Renewable Power

  • For the past 4 years, Intel has been recognized as the largest voluntary purchaser of green power in the United States, under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership program.
  • Since 2009, Intel has collaborated with third parties to complete 15 solar electric installations across nine Intel campuses in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Israel and Vietnam — collectively generating more than 5 million kWh per year of clean energy.
  • Since 2001, Intel has invested more than $58 million and completed over 1,563 energy conservation and energy efficiency projects, saving more than 825 million kWh of energy, or the approximate CO2 emissions from the electricity use of more than 70,933 average U.S. homes for 1 year. These investments also enabled Intel to reduce energy costs in 2011 by $10.9 million.

Employee Engagement

  • Since 2008, Intel has linked a portion of its employees’ variable compensation to environmental sustainability metrics.
  • In 2011, as part of Intel’s Environmental Excellence Awards, 62 employee teams from around the world were nominated for their work that helped Intel reduce its environmental impact. In fact, the estimated annual cost savings from the 2011 winning projects exceeded $70 million.
  • In 2011, Intel provided $125,000 in funding for nine employee projects via its Sustainability in Action grant program — including the installation of a rainwater harvesting project at a school in Israel and the design of a zero-emissions heating and cooling control and supply system for a local community building in China.
  • In 2011, 50 percent of Intel employees donated over 1.1 million hours of service through the Intel Involved volunteer program — an average of 13 hours per employee — at 5,100 schools and nonprofit organizations in 45 countries.

Green Building Design and LEED Certification

  • By the end of 2011, Intel had achieved LEED Silver Certification for a total of 18 buildings across five sites in Arizona, Costa Rica, China, Israel and Malaysia.

Education

  • In 2011, Intel reached its goal of providing professional development through the Intel Teach program to over 10 million teachers in more than 70 countries, reaching over 300 million students. In addition, the program was introduced in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Gabon and Tanzania.
  • In 2011, Intel launched She Will, a campaign to educate and empower girls and women around the world by fostering equal economic and educational opportunities.

Intel has provided public reports on its environmental, health and safety performance since 1994 and produced an annual Corporate Responsibility Report since 2001.

You can find a blog post on creating value by by Intel’s Michael Jacobson here.

[Image Courtesy: Intel]

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