IBM releases some perfluorocompounds (PFCs) from its semiconductor manufacturing operations. Although the releases are in relatively small amounts (in carbon dioxide equivalents, when compared to the company's indirect CO2 emissions), in 1998, IBM became the first semiconductor manufacturer to set a numeric reduction target for PFCs.
IBM's current PFC emissions reduction goal is to reduce PFC emissions from semiconductor manufacturing 25 percent by 2010 against a base year of 1995. In 2008, IBM's emissions were 30.4 percent below the 1995 baseline amount of 381,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.