Climate Leaders Helps Companies Meet GHG Reduction Targets

Deere & Company is one of a growing number of companies that have announced plans to reduce their total global greenhouse gas emissions by a specific number — in this case 25 percent per dollar of revenue from 2005 to 2014. The company has committed to the reduction goal in conjunction with its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders program, which Deere joined in 2007.

Climate Leaders is a voluntary industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. Participants set a corporate-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal and annually report their progress to EPA. Through program participation, companies create a credible record of their accomplishments, reduce their impact on the global environment and identify themselves as corporate climate leaders.

Becoming a corporate climate leader can’t be easy for companies in industries such as oil, energy and equipment because direct greenhouse gas emissions are generated from both plant operations and from the final product. Monitoring and collecting data across the organization as well as tabulating and benchmarking against publicly stated goals requires an enormous amount of data integration and reporting capability.

We have been seeing this trend across the enterprise lately, in all industries, as corporate social responsibility becomes a matter of setting and reaching sustainability goals that are expressed in numbers and percentages. Moreover, we’re seeing a need to allow this kind of data aggregation and reporting from mobile platforms as well as from desktop PCs. As a result, we have set out a product roadmap that meets these needs for our customers more completely and fully than any of our competitors. Fortunately, we have the talent on our team to get this done!

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