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Sprint understands that climate change is a critical issue and that reducing greenhouse gas (GHG emissions) is an important goal. As a large corporation with thousands of locations throughout the United States, Sprint has a role to play in the reduction of harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and is actively engaged in making a difference. Sprint has committed to absolutely reduce its GHG emissions by 15% by 2017 and to to increase its use of renewable energy to 10% by 2017. The majority of Sprint’s GHG emissions come from energy use in Sprint’s network and facilities. Sprint has been actively working to reduce its energy impact for the past several years, as evidenced by our large purchases of renewable energy, investments in alternative energy research, and development of an energy-conservation program.
Sprint recognized the need for a baseline study to effectively measure our emissions and the potential benefit of working with other corporations to reduce total emissions. In the fall of 2007, Sprint became the first wireless provider to join the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leaders Program. Climate Leaders is an industry-government partnership aimed at developing long-term comprehensive corporate climate-change strategies. As a partner in this program, Sprint completed a GHG baseline study and announced a goal to reduce its GHG emissions by 15 percent over 10 years, based on a 2007 baseline of 2.2 million metric tons. Sprint is the only U.S.-based wireless telecom to have a published absolute GHG reduction target. In just its first year of measurement and reporting, Sprint achieved a 6.8% reduction moving from 2.18M metric tons of GHG emissions to 2.03M metric tons.
Ralph Reid
Vice President - Corporate Social Responsibility
Sprint
Sprint also participates in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). CDP is a non-profit organization that is led by institutional investors in partnership with government and non-government organizations. This group’s goal is to encourage companies to report GHG emissions and disclose climate change risks and opportunities to investors.