IBM is leveraging hybrid cloud and emerging AI technologies across operations, supply chain, products and services to embed sustainability and long-term value into everything that we do.
At IBM, a commitment to the environment dates back to the 1970s, when we first established formal goals around energy conservation and waste management.
Today, we act as “client zero” in this mission, using our own cutting-edge hybrid cloud and AI technologies to help IBM make progress on its environmental goals, improve the efficiency of our operations, and deliver innovations that can help our clients and communities.
At IBM, we set environmental sustainability goals to help drive improvements in our operations, which include:
Energy and climate
- Implement a minimum of 3,000 energy conservation projects to avoid the consumption of 275,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy from 2021 to 2025.
- Procure 75% of the electricity IBM consumes worldwide from renewable sources by 2025, and 90% by 2030.
- Reach net-zero operational GHG emissions by 2030.
Conservation and biodiversity
- Achieve a year-to-year reduction in water withdrawals at larger IBM locations in water-stressed regions.
- Source paper and paper/wood-based packaging directly procured by IBM from forests that are sustainably managed and certified as such.
Pollution prevention and waste management
- Divert 90% (by weight) of IBM’s total nonhazardous waste from landfill and incineration by 2025 through reuse, recycling, composting and waste-to-energy processes. Use waste-to-energy processes for no more than 10% (by weight) of the diverted waste.Â
Today, we have met or exceeded many of the goals we established in 2021. The following summary provides more details on IBM’s 21 Goals for Environmental Sustainability.
