Building a more sustainable future together with

Lenovo has established themselves as an industry leader and innovator for the past few decades, with product offerings ranging from PCs, servers, and solutions along with services.

In order to spearhead the industry’s drive towards a sustainable future, Lenovo launched their CO2 offset service, a first of its kind that aims to emphasise the company’s commitment to providing solutions to offset carbon emissions for the past 16 years and give customers an active part in this effort.

First launched in the Nordic region back in 2020, the CO2 offset services have proven to be successful and were subsequently rolled out Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and North America.

Carbon offsets present a new path towards a more sustainable procurement, providing companies with a new model to follow in future corporate actions that are aimed to align with their ESG goals.

Customers now have also formed more opinions when it comes to supporting sustainable businesses, with 57% of consumers willing to change their purchasing habits to reduce negative environmental impact. Over 70% of customers are willing to pay a premium if they can trace or be guaranteed that a business’s operations are sustainable and environmentally responsible, which is also important for them.

Customers are given the option of offsetting carbon emissions when they buy Lenovo’s products or services, as well as existing customers who have already bought devices not more than three years ago. The goal is to make offsetting carbon emissions simple and more accessible to consumers whilst giving them full control on this decision.

Businesses can easily offset their global carbon footprint with the CO2 offset service, aided by certified providers partnered with Lenovo.

Carbon emissions offsetting made easy with Lenovo

With just an action as simple as a click of a button, businesses can conveniently get Lenovo’s CO2 offset service and set the cost of carbon offset that helps support the establishment or expansion of numerous initiatives such as the use of windmills, solar cells, and biomass energy.

The company also works with United Nations-vetted climate change projects, Companies can be rest assured that their carbon offsets are being met, as Lenovo remains the only vendor that provides solid proof of compensating for CO2 and the first electronics manufacturer to be DEKRA verified when it comes to this type of service.

Offsets are calculated by basing the CO2 compensation on accurate and realistic emission by-products starting from production, shipment, and up to a typical usage cycle of four years.

Through this, the CO2 offsets compensate for the environmental impact a business’ operations may produce, as well as supporting the initiative on reducing the total CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Additionally, Lenovo collaborates with an environmental partner to compensate for the CO2 emissions associated with devices purchased, providing peace of mind for

LENOVO AIMS TO ERADICATE 1,000,000 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS, ALONG WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY POWERING OVER 90% OF THEIR GLOBAL OPERATIONS

with Lenovo’s CO2 offset service.

Lenovo’s support coming from their offset service has gone on and aided many projects across the world, such as windmill farms in Chile that magnifies the share of renewable energy in Chile whilst diversifying their energy sources. Another wind-power-based project supported by Lenovo is located in Mexico, where a 137 MW wind farm in the municipality of Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca State helps reduce fossil fuel dependence in the power generation industry of Mexico.

A supported biomass utilisation initiative in China has turned rice straw, wheat straw, and wood residues into power generation fuel whilst also creating jobs for the locals. By utilising biomass, a lot of the usual greenhouse gases emitted by traditional fossil fuels in power generation are avoided.

customers who seek tangible results from their carbon offset contributions. This offset information can also be tracked and confirmed simply by using the associated device’s serial number.

The way the carbon emissions offset service works starts with the customer adding the CO2 offset service whenever a customer purchases an eligible device from Lenovo. The service is integrated into the serial number both for security and transparency.

Once the products have been shipped, Lenovo reports to the official CO2 offset partner, where they finalise the transaction and issue a unique proof of offset with specific HW serial number(s) that are then made available to the customer. These also provide a unique CSR action, as the offsets done are directly linked to the product themselves, not on generic or broad categories for emissions.

This whole process is very easy to implement due to the fact that it is already integrated within hardware transactions for the users’ convenience.

A guaranteed sustainability solution from Lenovo

Thanks to the partnerships that Lenovo is managing with industry-leading providers of CO2 offset services, the service that the company provides is now backed up by concrete evidence as an unquestionable mark of its legitimacy.

One such company collaborating with Lenovo is ClimeCo, which was founded in 2009 and is currently one of the largest providers of U.S. voluntary carbon credits under the Climate Action Reserve.

Results have already spoken for themselves, as a leading Hong Kong financial services institution was able to offset CO2 production by 1,000 tons of CO2 after picking up Lenovo’s first-ofits-kind service. Another organisation, a Macau education institution, was able to offset their carbon emissions footprint by 500 tonnes.

A utility company in Hong Kong has also taken a more sustainable path, offsetting CO2 emissions by 367 tons as they take carbon emission more seriously into their operations

The Global Climate Action under the United Nations Climate Change is also a supported partner of Lenovo, with revenue coming in from customers with the CO2 offset service helping reward approved projects located in developing countries and further encourage the development of new projects, all whilst bringing everyone closer to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Projects supported by Lenovo and Global Climate Action help bring sustainable development benefits into communities, such as improved air and water quality, improved income, improved health, and reduced energy consumption.

Carbon emissions offsets are not the only aspect in which Lenovo has excelled. As a leader in sustainable packaging, Lenovo has long used biobased material to reduce the plastic and carbon footprint of new technology. This, in return, helps reduce CO2 emissions during shipping, with improvements in both product and packaging design that further incorporates sustainability into new technology.

Through the combined efforts of Lenovo and their customers, the company aims to eradicate 1,000,000 greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chains, along with renewable energy powering over 90% of their global operations.