BELC Company GHG Reduction Targets

Thirty-seven of our BELC companies have greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. Some of these companies have achieved their targets and are currently evaluating new goals, while other companies are considering first-time targets. To learn more about the process of GHG target-setting, please read the Pew Report: Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets (pdf).

Check marks identify achieved targets.

ABB

Reduce GHG emissions by 1 percent each year from 2000 to 2004.

Develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for every core product, detailing its GHG emissions throughout its lifecycle.

• Reduce energy consumption by 5 percent per output unit over two years, from 2006 to 2008, through a Group-wide internal energy-savings program.

• Reduce CO₂ emissions from operations in Switzerland by 50 percent by 2010.

AEP

Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions by 4 percent below baseline (average of 1998 to 2001 emissions) by 2006.

• Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions by 6 percent (below the average of 1998 to 2001 levels) by 2010 using in-system reductions or carbon-equivalent offsets.

Alcoa

Reduce GHG emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2010 through improved resource use.
Actual reduction was 26 percent.

• Reduce GHG emissions 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2010 through improved resource use, assuming success with commercializing inert anode technology.

Bank of America

• Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions by 9 percent from 2004 levels by 2009.

• Reduce GHG emissions by 7 percent in energy and utility customers’ operations from 2004 levels by 2008.
  

Baxter International

Reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 16 percent per unit of production value from 2000 to 2005.

• Reduce GHG emissions by 20 percent indexed to revenue from 2005 levels by 2010.

BP

Reduce GHG emissions from operations by 10 percent from 1990 levels by 2010.

• Maintain net GHG emissions at or below 2001 levels over the next decade.

California Portland Cement

• Reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 9 percent per production index from 2003 levels by 2012.

Citi

• Reduce GHG emissions by 10 percent from 2005 levels by 2011.

Cummins, Inc.

• Reduce global GHG emissions by 25 percent per dollar revenue from 2005 to 2010.

Deutsche Telekom

Reduce GHG emissions from energy use by 15 percent from 1995 levels by 2000.

• Reduce CO₂ emissions from power consumption in Germany by 50 percent from 1995 levels by 2010, with the use of RECS certificates.
  

DTE Energy

Reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2000.
Emissions in 2007 remain below 1990 levels.

Reduce or offset power plant CO2 emissions by 5 percent from 1999 levels by 2005.

Duke Energy

• Reduce, avoid and/or sequester at least 10 million tons of CO2 equivalents between 2007 and 2014.

DuPont

Reduce GHG emissions by 65 percent from 1990 levels by 2010.
Actual reduction was 67 percent.

• Source 10 percent of global energy use from renewable resources by 2010.

• Reduce total global GHG emissions by 15 percent from 2004 levels by 2015.

Entergy

Stabilize CO2 emissions from U.S. generating facilities at 2000 levels through 2005.
Actual reduction was 23 percent below target.

• Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions from operating plants by 20 percent from 2000 levels by 2010.

Exelon

• Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions by 8 percent from 2001 levels by 2008.

GE

• Reduce total global GHG emissions by 1 percent from 2004 levels by 2012.

• Reduce intensity of GHG emissions by 30 percent from 2004 levels by 2008.

• Improve energy efficiency 30 percent from 2004 levels by 2012.

Hewlett-Packard

Reduce on-site GHG emissions by 18 percent from 2005 levels by 2006.
Actual reduction was 31 percent.

Reduce PFC emissions by 10 percent from 1995 levels by 2010.
Actual reduction was 34 percent.

• Reduce the combined energy consumption of operations and products 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2010.

Holcim

• Reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 12 percent per ton of product manufactured from 2000 levels by 2008.

• Reduce global average net specific CO₂ emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels by 2010.

IBM

Achieve an absolute 10 percent reduction in PFC emissions from semiconductor manufacturing processes from 2000 levels by 2005.
Actual reduction was more than 57 percent.

Reduce average annual CO₂ emissions equivalent to 4 percent of emissions associated with worldwide annual energy use from 2000 levels by 2005.
Actual reduction was 6.2 percent.

• Reduce total global GHG emissions by 7 percent from 2005 levels by 2012.

Intel

• Reduce PFC emissions by 10 percent from 1995 levels by 2010.

• Reduce global GHG emissions by 30 percent per production unit from 2004 levels by 2010.

Interface Inc.

• Reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 15 percent per unit of production from 2001 levels by 2010.

Lockheed Martin

• Reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 30 percent per revenue dollar from 2001 levels by 2010.

Novartis

Reduce CO₂ emissions by 3 percent absolute from 2000 levels.

• Reduce vehicle CO₂ emissions by 10 percent by 2010.

• Reduce Scope 1 GHG emissions from operations by 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2008-2012.

Ontario Power Generation

• Stabilize CO₂ emissions at 1990 levels through 2000 and beyond.

PG&E Corporation

Reduce overall energy use at 88 facilities by 18 percent from 1999 levels by 2003.

Reduce annual sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆) emissions by 50 percent from 1998 levels by 2002.

• Reduce SF₆ emissions by 60 percent from 1998 levels by year-end 2007.

• The company expects to meet California’s requirement that 20 percent of electric sales come from qualifying renewable energy resources, which emit no or minimal GHG emissions, by 2010.

PNM Resources

• Reduce CO₂ emissions, or equivalents, by 7 percent per megawatt hour from 2002 levels by 2009.

Rio Tinto

Reduce on-site GHG emissions per ton of product by 4.8 percent from 1990 levels by 2001.

• Reduce total GHG emissions per ton of product by 4 percent from 2003 levels by 2008.

• Reduce energy use per ton of product by 5 percent from 2003 levels by 2008.

Rohm and Haas

Reduce energy consumption by 5 percent per pound of product from mid-1999 levels by 2001.

Implemented a corporate-wide energy metrics program in 2001 and achieved targeted year on year energy utilization reductions in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

• Reduce energy consumption by at least 1 percent per pound of product each year.

Royal Dutch/Shell

Reduce GHG emissions from operations by 10 percent from 1990 levels by 2002.

• Maintain GHG emissions from operations at 5 percent below 1990 levels through 2010.

SC Johnson

Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions 8 percent from 2000 levels by 2005.
Actual reduction was 17 percent.

Reduce GHG emissions from the top five factories worldwide by 5 percent per year from 2000 to 2005.

• Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions 8 percent from 2005 levels by 2011.
  
  
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all worldwide factories 12 percent from 2000 levels by 2011.

Toyota

Reduce energy consumption per unit of production by 15 percent from 2000 levels by 2005.

• Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of production from U.S. assembly operations by 10 percent from 2002 levels by 2012.

TransAlta Corporation

Reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2000.

• Beginning July 1, 2007, reduce GHG emissions intensity by 12 percent from average intensity between 2003 and 2005.

• Achieve zero net GHG emissions from the company’s Canadian operations by 2024.

• Reduce total U.S. GHG emissions by 7 percent from 2006 to 2011.

United Technologies Corporation

Reduce energy consumption by 46 percent per revenue dollar from 1997 to 2006, resulting in a 16 percent reduction in absolute GHG emissions.

• Reduce global energy consumption as percent of sales by 40 percent from 1997 levels by 2007.

• Reduce total global GHG emissions by 12 percent from 2006 levels by 2010.

Weyerhaeuser

• Reduce GHG emissions by 40 percent from 2000 levels by 2020 through greater reliance on renewable fuels.

Whirlpool Corporation

• Reduce total GHG emissions 6.6 percent by 2012.

Wisconsin Energy Corporation

Reduce SF₆ emissions to less than 5 percent of equipment nameplate capacity.
Achieved for each year between 2001 and 2005.

• Increase Wisconsin retail electric sales from renewable energy sources by 5 percent by 2011.