September 19, 2023 – Lenovo at this time joined a brand new initiative to speed up non-public sector motion on the tempo and scale wanted to ship on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs) and meet the 2030 Agenda. The UN World Compact Ahead Quicker initiative calls on enterprise leaders all over the place to take measurable, credible, and bold motion in areas which have the ability to speed up progress throughout all 17 Sustainable Growth Objectives the place the non-public sector can collectively make the most important, quickest affect by 2030.
The SDG Progress Report launched earlier this yr by UN Secretary-Normal António Guterres, confirmed that simply 15 p.c of the Sustainable Growth Objective targets are on observe, progress on 48 p.c is weak and inadequate, and progress has stalled or gone into reverse on 37 p.c of the SDGs.
“Over the previous yr, Lenovo has remained dedicated to constructing a sustainable planet, selling inclusion, closing the digital divide, and being a accountable company citizen all over the place we do enterprise. We method our near-term 2030 targets with this imaginative and prescient, harnessing our innovation to extend the sustainability of our merchandise and operations,” shared Yuanqing Yang, Lenovo’s Chairman and CEO.
As a member of the United Nations World Compact, Lenovo has dedicated to 2 targets in two motion areas:
Local weather Motion
- Set company science-based net-zero emissions discount targets consistent with a 1.5°C pathway, with the purpose of halving world emissions by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050 on the newest.
Water Resilience
- Construct water resilience throughout world operations and provide chains and be a part of fingers to attain collective optimistic water affect in at the least 100 susceptible prioritized water basins by 2030.
In January 2023, Lenovo grew to become a part of the primary group of firms and the primary PC and smartphone maker to have net-zero targets permitted by the Science Primarily based Targets initiative. Along with endorsing the UN CEO Water Mandate in March 2021, Lenovo created a strategic partnership with Wine To Water to extend entry to scrub water for communities world wide. You possibly can learn extra about Lenovo’s affect and initiatives in alignment to the Sustainable Growth Objectives within the FY 2022-23 ESG Report.
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$62 billion income world know-how powerhouse, ranked #217 within the Fortune World 500, using 77,000 individuals world wide, and serving hundreds of thousands of shoppers each day in 180 markets. Targeted on a daring imaginative and prescient to ship smarter know-how for all, Lenovo has constructed on its success because the world’s largest PC firm by additional increasing into development areas that gasoline the development of ‘New IT’ applied sciences (shopper, edge, cloud, community, and intelligence) together with server, storage, cell, software program, options, and companies. This transformation along with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is constructing a extra inclusive, reliable, and smarter future for everybody, all over the place. To search out out extra go to https://www.lenovo.com, and skim concerning the newest information by way of our StoryHub.
