Innovation + Responsibility

I'm thrilled to report that today Sun launched our fiscal 2008 CSR Report.  The full report is available exclusively online.  And, in an effort to take transparency to a new level, we have added a comments feature to the report that allows readers to post comments directly on the page.  We won't censor the comments - we'll only be filtering them for inappropriate language or spam. I'm really hoping people who check out the report leave their comments - praise, criticism or general feedback. As a company, we get so much value out of the feedback our stakeholders provide.  This new feature of our reporting is a way for us to extend our stakeholder engagement efforts and receive valuable feedback from a much broader range of audiences interested in Sun's efforts to sustain our business, our communities and our planet.

I won't go into too much detail here, but I do want to point out some highlights of this year's report.

• Sun met (actually, we surpassed) our goal of achieving a 20% reduction of US GHG emissions over 2002 levels by 2012 (say that three times fast!).  In fact, we achieved a 23% reduction, and we did it in fiscal 2008! Now we've set a new goal to cover our global operations: To reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2 emissions from global operations by 20% over 2007 levels by 2015.
  


• We continue to make eco responsibility a core part of the products we make and sell, and this report has an update on our Eco Innovation efforts. 


• Employee participation in Worldwide Volunteer Week was up 84%!
  


• We were disappointed that we couldn't provide more information about our product takeback programs in this report. The good news is that we are working diligently to imprpove our processes so that future reports have more robust and reliable data. And, we set forth some meaningful goals that will keep us on track and continually improving.


• We have expanded our reporting to include more information about how we interact with our employees around the globe. From inclusion to learning and development to wellness to health and safety, we have provided a much richer picture of the kind of employer Sun is, and how we hope to become even better. 


• By studying employee work habits, we learned that in fiscal 2008, Open Work enabled Sun employees to drastically reduce travel time and miles driven.  Our study found that these employees saved an average of 107 hours of travel time - that's the equivalent of 13 extra days off! - and avoided roughly 52,000 metric tons of CO2.
  

I could go on and on...but I'd rather you read the report. Check it out and tell us what you think - either by emailing us (csr at sun dot com) or by posting your comments directly in the report itself. You can also post comments on this blog.