IBM

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Driving progress
with 21 goals for
environmental
sustainability
Setting goals has long been an essential part of IBM’s global
environmental management system, with formal goals
involving energy conservation (1970s); pollution prevention
and recycling (1980s); chlorofluorocarbons (1989); design for
the environment (1991); ISO 14001 (1996); CO2 (2000); and
specific perfluorinated compounds, PFOS and PFOA (2007),
being characteristic of IBM’s journey.
In 2021, we conducted an extensive review...