Goals and progress
Environment | Our ECO focus
Taking action on climate change means taking action on energy management.
Since 2003, we’ve participated in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders Program to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
In order to meet the broad scope and high degree of transparency required by the Climate Leaders Program, we collect and report on greenhouse gas emissions data for our store operations. We’re pleased to report that we’ve reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from 2003 to 2008, exceeding our climate leaders goal of 11 percent over that five-year period.
Our future goals for energy management will be informed by our environmental footprint assessment. Meanwhile, we continue to make changes, and measurable progress, across Gap Inc. For example:
In our stores, managers are reducing energy use with the help of our Energy Management Program. The program identifies stores with high energy use and works with the managers of those stores to ensure that they’re focused on energy conservation. To help managers succeed, we provide training materials and tips on reducing energy use along with targets for store-level energy reduction (in KWH/SQFT).
In our distribution centers, we’ve replaced lighting fixtures with energy-efficient fluorescent lights that maintain quality lighting while significantly reducing our energy use and costs. We’ve also installed a one-megawatt solar array at one of our distribution centers in Fresno, California.
