“Decisive action to address climate change is required from all of us to create a healthier world that can support the lives and livelihoods of our current population and the generations to come.”

During the final meeting of COP21, the world learned that leaders from 195 nations had reached an historic agreement in which their countries committed to lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a global company operating in more than 120 countries, we strongly support this new international agreement designed to aggressively address the root causes of climate change.

We believe that our own efforts to reduce energy use and lower greenhouse gas emissions across our technology portfolio, operations, and supply chain are critical to our long-term business sustainability and contribute directly to our customers’ success.

At HP, we engineer solutions that reduce our environmental impact without adversely affecting the quality of our products. Like our HP PageWide Technology used in our HP OfficeJet Pro X and Enterprise X printers that enables us to reduce the carbon footprint of printing by up to 55 percent per printer. Or our service-based solutions, such as our Managed Print Services that reduces our customers’ printing-related energy usage by 20-40 percent and decreases costs by 10-30 percent. And we continue to innovate with new technologies, like 3D printing, that are transforming how whole industries work.

We launch initiatives that reduce our carbon footprint and waste, such as our “closed loop” print supplies recycling program in which we combine plastics from returned ink cartridges with plastics from other sources, such as used water bottles and plastic hangers, to create plastic for new cartridges. The recycled plastic used in this process has a carbon footprint up to 33 percent smaller than virgin plastics and reduces fossil fuel consumption by 54 percent.

We also work to lower carbon emissions throughout our value chain by systematically analyzing our carbon footprint, setting goals to reduce GHG emissions, and reporting on the actions we have taken. Through these efforts, we send a clear message to companies, governments, and other organizations around the world that we must all take action.

At HP, sustainability serves as a guiding principle for how we conduct business and create solutions that are changing the world. It is core to our business strategy and fundamental to every decision we make.

While it isn’t always easy to balance the desire to act sustainably and the need to continually grow as a company, we know that through our technology and our people, we will continue to reinvent a more sustainable business and society. That’s because we believe that sustainability ignites innovation that creates a brighter future for everyone, everywhere.

Regards,

Dion Weisler President and Chief Executive Officer, HP Inc.

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All figures contained on this page are reflective of Hewlett-Packard Company prior to the company’s November 1, 2015 separation. HP Inc. metrics will be introduced to the site on an on-going basis as they become available.

Sustainability Highlights

Through our actions and investments, we strengthen our communities and enable the sustainable development of society at large; we minimize the environmental footprint of our customers, operations and supply chain; and we act with integrity and respect for human rights around the world.

Environment
Products and solutions

We continually innovate to reduce the environmental footprint of products and solutions across our portfolio, proactively developing technologies that help to solve some of society’s most serious environmental challenges.

  • Honored to receive the highest possible CDP carbon disclosure score—100 points—and an A rating on carbon-reduction performance.
  • Became the first global IT company to set GHG emissions reduction goals for all three parts of its value chain, by adding an ambitious products goal to reduce the GHG emissions intensity1 of our product portfolio through 2014, compared to 20102.
  • PageWide Technology business printer HP OfficeJet Enterprise X offers a step-change in materials use, generating up to 94% less supplies and packaging waste than comparable laser printers3.
Product return and recycling

We provide an extensive network of product take-back programs in 734 countries and territories.

  • Added a new closed-loop process for polypropylene to our existing recycling programs, enabling us to produce new inkjet cartridges entirely from material recycled by our customers.
  • Incorporated some recycled plastic in over 75% of HP inkjet cartridges shipped for commercial sale by the end of 2014.
  • Recovered 157,500 tonnes of hardware (including HP and non-HP products) and supplies. Of this amount, we recovered 4.2 million computer hardware units weighing 39,100 tonnes for reuse and remarketing and recycled 118,400 tonnes.
HP operations

We relentlessly pursue reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, waste, water, and paper consumption in our worldwide operations.

  • Committed to 100% renewable electricity in 2016, joining the RE100 initiative to accelerate the transformation of the global energy market.
  • Reduced GHG emissions from operations by 5.5%, decreased total waste by 11.5%, and cut water consumption by 3.1% in 2014, compared to 2013.
Supply chain environmental impact

We lead industry efforts to reduce GHG emissions, waste, and water withdrawal in our supply chain.

  • Helped production suppliers cut GHG emissions by 600,000 tonnes CO2e (cumulatively) since 2010, toward our goal of a two million tonne reduction between 2010 and 2020.
  • Expanded our supplier Energy Efficiency Program in China and Southeast Asia to include 70 new HP supplier sites.
  • Achieved an 18% reduction in first-tier manufacturing and product transportation-related GHG emissions intensity from 2010 through 2013.
Society
Supply chain responsibility

We motivate and empower suppliers and other stakeholders to enhance labor conditions, support human rights, and improve environmental performance at supplier production facilities.

  • Awarded an A grade on CDP Supplier Climate A List for our climate performance, among the top 2% of suppliers disclosing through CDP’s supply chain program.
  • Achieved 84% of workers related to HP production at final assembly sites working fewer than 60 hours per week on average, with fewer than 4% working more than 72 hours per week.
  • Became the first IT company to require direct employment of foreign migrant workers in our supply chain through the HP Foreign Migrant Worker Standard.
Employees

We aim to attract, motivate and empower the most talented people in the fast-moving and ultra-competitive information technology (IT) industry with compelling career development opportunities, a supportive work environment, recognition, and rewards.

  • Achieved 80% participation of all employees worldwide in our Voice of the Workforce survey, which found that overall employee engagement remained strong at 70%.
  • Worked with the Rainbow PUSH coalition as well as numerous other experts and organizations to address issues of diversity and inclusion in our industry, and deepened our long-standing commitment to transparency in continuing to publish comprehensive employee diversity data.
  • Launched Matter to a Million, our global employee engagement initiative providing capital to low-income entrepreneurs in partnership with a nonprofit micro-lender. Combined with additional HP Company Foundation contributions, this equaled more than $5.9 million in loans.
Integrity
Human rights

We take an uncompromising stance on human rights in our own operations, and we make compelling arguments to others to do the same. Over the course of the last year, HP was proud to contribute to multi-stakeholder initiatives led by the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, Social Accountability International and BSR.

Corporate ethics

We adhere to the highest ethical standards by supporting our employees in making the right decisions. While our industry-leading practices and policies in this area are well-known, each year we strive to make even greater progress.

Privacy

We implement rigorous policies and procedures to safeguard personal data that we hold or process, and we support these priorities through a rigorous program designed to train our employees and engage external stakeholders. By way of example, in 2014, HP helped lead efforts to develop the Unified Ethical Frame for Big Data Analysis, a groundbreaking initiative from the Information Accountability Foundation that has met with unheralded support from regulators, companies, and the privacy community.

Government relations

We advocate with transparency and integrity to promote laws and regulations that encourage economic growth and innovation in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.

All figures contained on this page are reflective of Hewlett-Packard Company prior to the company’s November 1, 2015 separation. HP Inc. metrics will be introduced to the site on an on-going basis as they become available.

1. Emissions intensity of our product portfolio refers to tonnes CO2e/net revenue arising from use of our high-volume product lines, including notebooks, tablets, desktops, mobile computing devices, and workstations; inkjet and LaserJet printers; and all HP servers, including industry-standard servers, HP Moonshot, and HP Apollo.

2. Expressed as emissions generated per unit of output. For printers and personal systems, each product constitutes a unit of output. For servers, each unit of output equals a task performed by the system, as defined by industry standards.

3. The HP OfficeJet Pro X576dn generates up to 94% less waste per 15,000 pages compared with major in-class competitors’ color laser MFPs <$1,000 USD and color laser printers <$800 USD as of July 2014. Tested by Buyers Lab Inc. and commissioned by HP. The HP OfficeJet Enterprise X585dn generates up to 90% less waste compared with the majority of color laser MFPs <$3,000 USD based on market share as reported by IDC as of Q3 2013.

4. As of October 31, 2014.

Sustainability strategy

Since its inception, corporate citizenship has helped guide how HP does business. Today, everything we do is designed to help create a more sustainable business and society.

At HP, sustainability extends beyond global citizenship. It supports our business strategies and helps us meet our customers’ needs, engage and develop our people, and deliver profitable growth and business stability over the long-term. In support of this approach, we engineer and deliver ground-breaking solutions with sustainability in mind. These solutions help us strengthen our communities; minimize the environmental footprint of our customers, operations, and supply chain; and act with integrity and respect for human rights around the world.

We are creating a brighter future through actions, solutions and technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. For examples of how we are achieving this across our value chain, see our 2014 Living Progress Report.

Advancing sustainability

We continually develop, implement, and scale programs and social investments that transform how people work and live. For example in 2014, we announced a goal to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of our product portfolio1 by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 2010 levels2 . This made us the only global IT company to have set GHG emissions reduction targets for all three parts of its value chain.

We also introduced our Foreign Migrant Worker Standard to provide better protection for this vulnerable group of workers in our supply chain. Innovation in our products – such as the HP PageWide Technology – continued to enable significant advances in energy efficiency.

Our commitment to transparency was rewarded with the highest possible CDP disclosure score—100 points—and an A rating on performance.

Materiality

In 2014 we updated our 2012 materiality assessment (see graphic below) to ensure HP focuses and reports on the most pressing sustainability issues that impact, and can be affected by, our company.

Key themes that emerged and will influence our evolving strategy included the imperative to develop products and solutions that benefit society as well as our customers, and the paramount importance of protecting customer privacy in our data-rich society. We also identified intellectual property protection as a new material issue.

For our materiality matrix, please see our full report.

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Stakeholder engagement

We engage in ongoing open dialogues with stakeholders, including suppliers, customers, public policy makers, industry bodies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and sector experts. We work closely with organizations and companies dedicated to addressing global citizenship issues—sharing ideas, successes, and best practices that accelerate the creation and deployment of solutions.

We tap into our most important assets—our employees—to help us deliver on our sustainability goals. We encourage our employees and support their passions by making long-term investments in programs that promote employee engagement around the world.

Global citizenship governance

Strong leadership, sound governance, and active employee participation throughout HP form the foundation of our sustainability work. Our Head of Sustainability leads the effort to ensure our sustainability work serves as a driving force for our company.

The HP Board of Directors’ Nominating, Governance, and Social Responsibility Committee oversees all the company’s global citizenship efforts. HP’s Executive Council retains overall responsibility for global citizenship as part of our business strategy. Senior leaders reporting to the Executive Council in various business and global ensure our company-wide commitment to and alignment with HP’s global citizenship objectives and are responsible for advancing sustainability company-wide.

1. Emissions intensity of the HP product portfolio refers to tonnes CO2e /net revenue arising from use of high-volume product lines, including notebooks, tablets, desktops, mobile computing devices and workstations; inkjet and LaserJet printers; and HP servers, including industry-standard servers, HP Moonshot and HP Apollo.

2. Expressed as emissions generated per unit of output. The unit of output was determined per product line as follows: printer output represents carbon emissions from printing one A4 image; each personal system represents one unit of output; for servers, each unit of output equals a task performed by the system, as defined by industry standards.