At IBM, we proactively engage and collaborate with stakeholders from a cross-section of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, businesses, industry associations, investors, academia, communities and employees.
- European Union Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres Program (participant and stakeholder)
- United Nations Environment Programme
- U.S. EPA's ENERGY STAR (charter member
- Reporting on IBM's corporate environmental programs and performance annually since 1990
- Voluntary participation in CDP's climate change and water security questionnaires since their inception.
- Voluntary Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) disclosure since 2007
- Voluntary reporting under EcoVadis Sustainability Rating Platform since 2014
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) - Business Environmental Leadership Council (first IT company invited to join)
- Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
- The Climate Registry
- The Nature Conservancy
- Wildlife Habitat Council
- World Environment Center
- Alliance to End Plastic Waste
- American Chamber of Commerce to the EU
- Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Corporate Social Responsibility Policy Advisory Network
- Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO)
- Call for Code
- China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment (Environmental Committee)
- Clean Energy Buyers Association
- Climate Leadership Council (founding member)
- Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact
- Electronics Product Stewardship Canada (charter member)
- European Green Digital Coalition
- Information Technology Industry Council's Environmental Leadership Council and Energy and Environment Committee
- International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) Technology Working Groups
- Led coalition of manufacturers in support of California's successful product recycling legislation for video display products
- Led establishment of SWICO Electronic Recycling System in Switzerland in 1994 (First comprehensive national recycling system for electronic products in the world)
- Led formation of industry electronics recycling systems in Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland before the EU's WEEE legislation
- Lisbon Council: Eco-innovators Network
- Responsible Business Alliance (charter member)
- The Green Grid (founding member)
- United States Information Technology Office (USITO) – Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Group
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Climate and Sustainability Consortium
- Pennsylvania State University Center for the Business of Sustainability
- ECMA 328 Standard, "Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment"
- ECMA 341 Standard, "Environmental design considerations for electronic products"
- ECMA 370 Standard, "The Eco Declaration"
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Environmental Engineering Standards: EN 303 470 "Energy Efficiency measurement methodology and metrics for servers"
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC): Technical committee 111X "Environmental aspects for electrical and electronic products and systems"
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1680.4 Working Group developing Environmental Standard for Servers
- International Electrotechnical Commission: Technical committee 111 "Environmental aspects for electrical and electronic products and systems"
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC 62321) RoHS Test Standards
- Member of ISO Technical Committee 207 (TC 207) for Environmental Management System Standards
- Member of ISO Technical Committee 301 (TC 301) for Energy Management Systems
- The Green Grid:
- Vice-Chair of The Green Grid and Member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC)
- Chair of the Data Center Energy Efficiency Standards (DCEE-S) Standing Working Group
- Member of the Server and Storage Energy Standing Working Group