Dell is committed to creating net positive social and environmental outcomes through its business objectives and technology. It takes a lifecycle approach to product development to minimize environmental impact from design to recycling. Dell's 2020 Legacy of Good goals aim to use IT to drive results that are 10 times larger than IT's footprint. Dell was a founding member of the Net Positive Project, which envisions that within five years: 1) many companies will have executed net positive initiatives benefiting the environment and society; 2) many organizations will make new accountable commitments to net positive; and 3) net positive will be widely recognized in corporate language.
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Dell before today:
Doing the most good for people and the planet
• Bringing sustainability and social
responsibility together with our business
objectives to benefit customers,
communities and the environment.
• Taking a lifecycle approach to product
development, ensuring sustainability
from design to recycling and everything
in between.
• 2020 Legacy of Good goals built around
what’s material; our vision of IT driving
net positive results that are 10x the size
of IT’s footprint.
Putting our technology and
expertise to work where they
can do the most good for
people and the planet.
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How many of you:
1. Have you ever heard of Net Positive?
2. Does your organization have any social or environmental goals, or
offer any products or services that create positive environmental
outcomes?
3. How many of you are here because you are personally interested in
sustainability?
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Creating net positive outcomes
Technologyhas always come with a promise – of advancement, of fulfillment of hopes and dreams,
of bettermentforeveryone it touches.Doing “less bad” is no longer a high enough bar for us to hold
ourselves to. We must reach higher, act bigger,and do so in concert with our customers and
partners. Technologygives us a way to create the net positive social and environmental outcomes
that truly build a Legacy of Good.We were part of the founding group for the Net Positive Projectand
we will continue to push for widespread adoptionof the concept.
• A critical mass of companies having executed net
positive initiatives that are deliver benefits to the
environment and society.
• A multitude of organizations making new, publicly
accountable, net positive commitments.
• Wide recognition of net positive in the corporate
lexicon.
In five years’ time, the Net Positive Projectenvisions:
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Panelists
Tim Fleming
Director, Sustainability Operations, AT&T
Tim Mohin
Senior Director of Corporate
Responsibility, AMD
Dan O’Neill
Sustainability Solutions Manager,
Arizona State University
John Pflueger
Principal Environmental Strategist, Dell
6. Questions?
For more information:
1. Contact John.Pflueger@Dell.com
2. Visit us at the CSR booth in the Expo
3. Learn more at www.dell.com/2020