2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group

Acer Corporate Responsibility Report 2009
It's Time for Environmental Responsibility
5. Influencing government policy: Acer continued to actively
participate – along with other major Taiwanese companies – in
the Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Forum's climate change
working group. We believe that providing the government with
practical suggestions regarding climate change policy and
regulations is a part of our corporate responsibility.
Acer Japan's Carbon Offsetting Plan
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
After gaining a firm understanding of our greenhouse gas emission
situation, we drew up an emission reduction policy that has five
major directions:
In 2007, Acer Japan adopted the slogan "green IT
movement=environmental protection" and started to buy
carbon credits to offset the consumption of electricity in
their offices. In 2008, the plan was expanded on a trial
basis. By offsetting the carbon equivalents of gas heating,
office electricity consumption, and fuel used in company
vehicles, Acer Japan became the first of our overseas
branches to achieve carbon neutrality. As a result of an
increase in the area of floorboards in the office the amount
of carbon dioxide equivalents that needed to be offset rose
from 66 metric tonnes in 2008 to 121 tonnes in 2009.
1. Reducing suppliers' greenhouse gas emissions: Acer started
supplier greenhouse gas emission accounting in 2009 and
requested that they set specific future reduction targets. We
will continue cooperating with our suppliers to ensure that
greenhouse gas emissions produced during manufacturing
processes are reduced to a minimum.
2. Increasing the energy efficiency of Acer facilities: By making
benchmark comparisons of the energy efficiency rates of all of
our facilities worldwide and setting realistic reduction targets,
we have given the management at each center an incentive to
increase the efficiency of their energy usage through targeted
improvements.
3. Promoting low-energy products: Besides adopting LED backlight
screens for monitors produced in 2009 we also rolled out the
low-energy Aspire Timeline series of laptops. Aspire Timelines
are in the same price range as similar laptops but are a big step
in the direction of low-energy computing.
4. Carbon neutral plan: In September 2008 Acer Japan bought
carbon credits that had resulted from wind-generated electricity
in India, a part of that nation's Clean Development Mechanism
(CDM). These credits were used to offset Acer Japan's 2007
carbon emissions from electricity consumption, allowing the
branch to achieve carbon neutrality. Acer Japan continued to
implement their carbon neutral plan in 2009 and even expanded
the scope of its implementation.
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