Goals and progress
Environment | Our program in action
Climate leaders
Location: United States
Summary: We’re taking action on climate change now. As participants in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders Program, we’ve met our goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We believe that the need to take action on climate change is pressing.
Together with assessing our environmental footprint, we're participating in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leaders program to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Leaders is an industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop climate change strategies. The program has a broad scope, requiring a high degree of transparency and data collection on greenhouse gas emissions.
We began our Climate Leaders work by completing a company-wide inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and setting goals to reduce them. 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.
We did this through a variety of initiatives that include introducing energy-efficient light bulbs at our distribution centers and improving energy performance at our headquarters and stores through better environmental management systems and behavior changes.
Going forward, the findings from our environmental footprint assessment will inform our actions and drive our goals for 2010 and beyond.
