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Charters
We align with several charters that support and advance our sustainability goals.
CEO
Action for Diversity and Inclusion
The
largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and
inclusion in the workplace, representing more than 450 CEOs and presidents.
Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Advanced Cooling
(AC) Challenge
The AC Challenge urges governments,
companies and other stakeholders to make, sell or install
super-efficient air conditioner or cooling solutions that are smart,
climate-friendly and affordable. It is a call to action to recognize
that access to cooling improves health, productivity, economic growth
and education.
Climate and Clean Air Coalition HFC
Initiative
Under the HFC Initiative, coalition partners
support the development of HFC inventories and studies, information
exchange on policy and technical issues and demonstration projects to
validate and promote climate-friendly alternatives. We also support
technologies and various capacity-building activities to disseminate
information on emerging technologies and practices to transition away
from high global warming potential HFCs and minimize HFC leakages.
Digital Climate Alliance
An ad hoc private-sector coalition focused on
spearheading U.S. policy and legislative engagement efforts around the
building nexus between digitalization and corporate sustainability.
EP100
The Climate Group’s initiative
to bring together companies to commit to doubling their energy
productivity more than 70 member companies to date.
EP 100 Cooling Challenge
EP100
members commit to identifying ways of cooling their operations as
efficiently as possible — optimizing the contribution of efficient,
clean cooling in meeting their energy productivity goals.
Global Human Rights Policy
Many
of the standards set forth in our Human Rights Policy align with basic
working conditions and human rights concepts advanced by international
organizations such as the International Labor Organization and the
United Nations.
Paradigm
for Parity
A coalition of business leaders, board
members and academics who are committed to addressing the gender gap
in corporate leadership.
RE100
The Climate Group’s initiative to bring together companies to
commit to procuring 100% of their electricity consumed from renewables
to accelerate change towards a zero-carbon grid with more than 200
member companies to date.
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
An international organization working with governments, the
private sector and civil society to drive further, faster action
toward achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) — which
calls for universal access to sustainable energy by 2030 — and the
Paris Agreement — which calls for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions to limit climate warming to below 2° Celsius.
Task
Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
The
TCFD supports a transition to a low-carbon economy, more efficient
allocation of capital and an improved dialogue between investors and
companies. Signatories include more than 930 organizations
representing a market capitalization more than 11 trillion USD.
The Cool
Coalition
A global multi-stakeholder network that
connects governments and the private sector to finance, academia, and
civil society groups to facilitate knowledge exchange, advocacy and
joint action towards a rapid global transition to efficient and
climate-friendly cooling.
The Three Percent Club
A
collaboration of governments, the private sector, and financial
institutions that commit to working together to put the world on a
path to 3% annual efficiency improvement.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Better Plants
Challenge Partners
Having met our original goal set
in 2009 as part of the DOE Save Energy Now Leaders program, we became
a Better Plants Challenge Partner in 2016 with a commitment to reduce
energy intensity by 35% by the end of 2019.
WEConnect International
WEConnect International certifies and connects women-owned
businesses to global, corporate buyers.
We Are Still
In
An organization of more than 2,800 groups –
including businesses, mayors, county executives, universities, faith
groups and investors – that have committed to standing by the Paris
Climate Agreement and working to meet its goals.
We Mean Business: Commitment to Reduce Short-Lived
Pollutant Emissions
A coalition of companies that
agree to include measurement of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in their GHG
accounting and reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants
(SLCPs). We also engage stakeholders in supply chains to reduce SLCPs,
promote best practices and showcase successful efforts.
We Mean Business: Adopt a Science-Based
Emissions Reduction Target
Companies agree to set
a science-based target that is in line with the Science Based Targets
Initiative’s call-to-action criteria. Our goal of reducing the GHG
refrigerant footprint of our products by 50% by 2020 and reducing the
GHG emissions from our operations by 35% by 2020 was verified as a
science-based goal in 2016 by the Science Based Targets Initiative.
Our target to be carbon neutral and to reduce emissions from the use
phase of our products will be submitted for review as a science-based
target this year. If approved, this will be our second science-based goal.