Environmental Strategy
EMC's Office of Sustainability is applying a unified environmental strategy across our business and day-to-day operations. We have built effective internal governance to support execution against this strategy.
Environmental sustainability definition
At EMC, we define environmental sustainability as conducting and transforming ourselves and our company in a manner that will do the following for our employees and their families, customers, suppliers, investors, and the global community:
- Conserve and enrich the environment in which we live and work
- Create value in the adaptations that are required to thrive into the future, and
- Mitigate the risks from changes in the planet that we cannot influence
EMC's environmental priorities
We focus our efforts where we have the greatest potential to reduce negative impact and even have positive influence. In examining our risks and opportunities, we have defined four focus areas for our environmental strategy:
- Energy and climate change
- Material use and waste
- Water
- Collaboration and engagement with external groups
Recognizing that environmental sustainability is both a responsibility and opportunity, we focus our efforts across the following spheres:
- EMC operations
- Our supply chain
- Use and disposal of our products
- Efficiency in our customers' IT infrastructures
- The global community
Governance model
EMC is integrating environmental sustainability throughout our business. The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of EMC's Board of Directors meets with the Chief Sustainability Officer twice a year to provide board-level oversight. Our operating model can be seen below.
Environmental Management System
EMC's comprehensive environmental management system covers waste reduction, conservation of energy and materials, and overall environmental impact at our facilities worldwide. All of EMC's global manufacturing sites are certified to the world's most recognized and accepted environmental management standard, ISO 14001. The same policies and procedures apply, as appropriate, to all EMC facilities worldwide. In 2010, EMC did not incur fines or nonmonetary sanctions for noncompliance with environmental laws and regulations.
