Western Digital’s core commitment to positively impacting its global environmental footprint was extended. The new goals include using 100% renewable energy to power the company’s operations, achieving net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions across the company’s operations, and reducing water and waste.
“Committing to these new, aggressive sustainability targets furthers Western Digital’s priority of being a good environmental steward and putting forth data-driven goals and metrics to hold our organization accountable for mitigating the impacts of climate change,” said Irving Tan, Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Western Digital. “We have already made significant progress in reducing emissions, water, and waste, as well as leveraging renewable energy and low-carbon product design and packaging.” These new targets reaffirm our commitment to being a sustainability industry leader.”
Western Digital’s established sustainability program has already established aggressive goals and has received industry recognition. For example, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) approved the company’s goals to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 42% by 2030 and scope 3 use-phase emissions/Terabyte by 50% by 2030, both from an FY2020 base year, in 2021, and the company has since achieved nearly 15% absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction. Furthermore, as a founding member of the First Movers Coalition, Western Digital has committed to using at least 10% net-zero fuels for ocean shipping by 2030. Western Digital’s facilities in Shanghai, China and Penang, Malaysia have been designated as Sustainability Lighthouses by the World Economic Forum’s Lighthouse Network.
“As sustainability becomes a business priority for organizations, companies that commit to and demonstrate progress toward achieving actionable sustainability targets will be recognized as industry sustainability leaders,” says Curtis Price, VP Sustainability Research at IDC. “Western Digital’s new commitments in net zero emissions, water and waste reduction, and renewable energy demonstrate the company’s commitment to reducing the environmental impact of its business operations and paving the way for other companies to follow suit.”
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