Environmental Sustainability
As environmental sustainability moves to the global forefront, there is increasing social and political pressure on businesses to become more environmentally responsible. Enterprises are looking for solutions that can enable them to create environmental benefits now, while continuing to address these critical business imperatives: lowering costs; retaining and growing their customer base; increasing market share; and increasing shareholder value.
The EDS Minute Video:
EDS Goes Green
EDS' comprehensive global environmental sustainability program focuses on developing eco-friendly client services, as well as initiatives involving employees and the greening of EDS operations around the world. We are committed to providing services and solutions that sustain valuable ecological resources.
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EDS recognizes a healthy environment is the basis for a sustainable global economy and essential for the well-being of our people, our business and our clients. We take our environmental responsibilities seriously. The company is addressing environmental sustainability by providing ecologically friendly IT capabilities, promoting efficient operations and demonstrating thought leadership and stewardship with our alliance partners, industry groups and the investment community. We are also committed to engaging our employees, reporting the environmental impact of our operations and reducing our carbon footprint.
EDS Environmental Sustainability Program Governance
A Global Environmental Governance Council, Global Environmental Core Team and regional implementation teams advance EDS' Environmental Sustainability Program. These teams, led by EDS' Global Environmental Sustainability manager, work to ensure we are using our people, capabilities and innovative thinking to implement business solutions for ourselves and our clients that address climate change and other environmental issues.
Investor Relations
EDS is proud to communicate with and be recognized by the investment community for environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility in the following ways:
- The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) survey – This survey is sponsored by institutional investors representing US$57 trillion in funds under management. EDS' response provides investment-relevant information to the 64 signatory investors who have EDS holdings and to other prospective signatory investors.
- Included in the 2007 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and North America Index – These global indexes track the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.
- Included in the KLD Domini 400 Social Index (DS400) – The DS400 is a benchmark for U.S. equity portfolios that selects companies based on their environmental, social and governance performance. EDS has been a constituent since 2001.