Corning voluntarily recorded and reported its 2010-2011 worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with The Climate Registry. Corning previously registered its 2005 through 2009 GHG emissions with the California Climate Action Registry, The Climate Registry is a nonprofit collaboration among North American states, provinces, territories and Native Sovereign Nations that sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions into a single registry.

Our world-wide inventories were developed using The Climate Registry’s General Reporting Protocol which follows the same principles as these of the World Resource Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WRI/WBCSD) GHG Protocol A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (Revised Edition). These company-wide inventories include GHG emissions from the following sources:

• Direct emissions from stationary combustion of fossil fuels
• Indirect emissions from the use of electricity
• Direct emissions resulting from manufacturing or processing of chemicals and raw materials
• Fugitive emissions resulting from the intentional and unintentional releases of hydrofluorcarbons (HFCs and PFCs)
• Direct mobile emissions resulting from Corning's aviation fleet and motor vehicles

The gases reported in the inventory include all six internationally-recognized greenhouse gases regulated under the Kyoto Protocol:

• Carbon dioxide (CO2);
• Methane (CH4);
• Nitrous oxide (N2O);
• Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs);
• Perfluorocarbons (PFCs); and
• Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).

Results

The figure below shows the GHG (as CO2-e) as total emission, indirect emission, stationary combustion emission, mobile emission, and process emission. The results cover GHG emissions under our operational control and have been independently verified by a third party verifier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global Energy Management

In 2005, Corning Incorporated launched a Global Energy Management (GEM) program that strategically manages global energy with consideration to energy productivity, supply reliability and environmental impact. In accordance with our Values, Corning is committed to maintaining a long-term view of energy that will include a cost-effective, environmentally responsible use of energy in its facilities around the world. Our mission is to become world-class in the way we purchase and use energy.

As part of that commitment, Corning became an ENERGY STAR partner in 2005. ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. The program helps families and businesses save money and protect the environment through energy-efficient products and practices.

As an ENERGY STAR partner, Corning makes a fundamental commitment to protect the environment through continuous improvements in energy performance.

"Increasingly, the need to address energy costs, reliability, and consumption is being recognized as strategic to Corning's competitiveness. Likewise, greenhouse gas management is growing in importance. GEM is leading our efforts around the world to address these needs."
          - Kirk P. Gregg, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

Energy Policy Guidelines

• Continuously improve energy productivity through effective energy management programs that support manufacturing capabilities while providing a healthy work environment
• Encourage ongoing energy conservation by all employees
•  Implement plans to protect operations from energy supply interruptions
• Secure adequate and reliable energy supplies at the most advantageous rates
• Manage energy supplies to potentially lower greenhouse gas content
• Incorporate energy productivity in new product design, development, and manufacturing process
• Emphasize energy productivity in the selection of all real estate, equipment, goods, and services
• Drive further development and investment in innovative energy technologies
• Engage governmental agencies and utility companies to utilize and develop effective energy productivity incentives
• Support national and local energy productivity and climate change actions