Graduates

IBM's corporate policy on environmental affairs, first issued in 1971, is supported by the company's global environmental management system, which is the key element of the company's efforts to achieve results consistent with environmental leadership and ensures the company is vigilant in protecting the environment across all of its operations worldwide.

We have had a formal energy conservation policy since 1974 and in 1999, we manufactured the world’s first computer made with 100% recycled resin for major parts. Between 1990 and 2005, we avoided CO2 emissions in an amount equal to 40% of our CO2 emissions in 1990. And in 2005, IBM employees brainstormed ‘innovations for a better planet’.

In 2006, we were awarded the US EPA Climate Protection Award, becoming the first company to receive this award twice. We have been a global leader in computer recycling for more than 15 years and in 2006, 51% or our end-of-life product and product waste was recycled.

'Project Big Green’ is a new IBM service announced in May 2007 and directs $1billion a year across the business to increase data centre energy efficiency for IBM and our clients.

IBM was one of the first global companies to pionner programs to reduce employee commuting and has sustained these programs for nearly 2 decades – in the US alone, our ‘work at home’ program conserved approximately 8 million gallons of fuel and avoided more than 61,000 metric tonnes of Co2 emissions in 2006.