Climate Change
Together, we can create a sustainable future
Climate change is a global crisis, caused by human activities, with significant consequences for national and international peace, development, and security.
The technology sector has a central role to play in responding to the climate crisis, as digital transformation has the potential to decouple economic growth from carbon emissions growth.
Environment
Corporate Carbon Footprint
BlackBerry participates in CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) an international, not-for-profit organization that provides a system for companies to measure, disclose, manage and share emissions and climate change information. Since CY2009, BlackBerry has annually disclosed and shared information about its Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Measuring and Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
BlackBerry’s reporting is based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol). It includes Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions as defined by the protocol. BlackBerry’s CDP reports include all available data for BlackBerry operations worldwide.
- Scope 1: The total global direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by the reporting organization. For BlackBerry, this includes emissions associated with stationary fuel use, mobile fuel use, and refrigerant leaks (fugitive emissions).
- Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions that the organization has caused through its consumption of energy in the form of electricity, heat, cooling or steam. For BlackBerry, this includes emissions associated with the purchase of electricity.
- Scope 3: Indirect emissions that arise as a consequence of an organization's activities from sources that are owned or controlled by others. For BlackBerry, this includes emissions associated with employee air travel, employee business vehicle rentals, employee expensed vehicle mileage, and employee business rail travel.
Green House Gas Emission Reduction Initiatives
In order to minimize BlackBerry’s carbon footprint, we have been and continue to be focused on various initiatives targeted at reducing our direct and indirect GHG emissions across our operation including:
- Evolving from a hardware manufacturer to a software company.
- Optimizing our office spaces by rationalizing our global facilities footprint, installing energy efficient solutions, and more.
- Reducing our physical data center footprint.
- Utilizing digital collaboration tools to reduce business travel.
