Oracle Commits to Powering Its Global Operations with Renewable Energy by 2025
On June 23, 2021, Oracle announced its commitment to powering all global operations, including facilities and cloud services, with 100% renewable energy by 2025. CEO Safra Catz emphasized the importance of this initiative for sustainability, aligning with the values of customers, partners, and investors. The company aims for the same renewable energy milestone for its next-generation cloud regions and has already achieved this for its European cloud regions. Additionally, Oracle is focused on reducing e-waste and waste sent to landfills, while ensuring suppliers implement environmental programs by 2025.
- Commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2025 enhances corporate sustainability.
- Existing renewable energy initiatives for European cloud regions already in place.
- Successful recycling of 99.6% of 2.5 million pounds of retired hardware in FY20.
- 25% reduction in waste sent to landfills since 2015 demonstrates effective waste management.
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Oracle expanded its commitment to sustainability by pledging to power its global operations, both its facilities and its cloud, with
"Relying on renewable energy is an important step toward a more sustainable future," said Oracle Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz. "Oracle will always make its biggest impact on the environment by providing customers with technology that enables them to reduce their carbon footprint, but this new goal reflects the shared values of our customers, partners and investors."
Oracle's latest renewable energy goal builds on its existing sustainability priorities, including:
- Clean cloud: Oracle maintains its goal of achieving
100% renewable energy use at all next-generation Oracle Cloud regions by 2025. - Hardware recycling: Continuing its efforts to reduce e-waste, in FY20, Oracle collected 2.5 million pounds of retired hardware assets, of which
99.6% was either reused or recycled. - Reducing waste: Oracle has decreased the amount of waste sent to landfill at Oracle-owned buildings by
25% on a square foot basis since 2015. - Responsible sourcing: By 2025, Oracle's expects
100% of its key suppliers to have an environmental program in place.
Oracle's European Cloud regions are already powered with
"Renewable energy is critical to tackling climate change and helping us move to a cleaner, greener future," said UK Business & Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. "Oracle's ambitious pledge today will ensure it is going further and faster to reach a sustainable future, and inspiring other businesses around the world to be more environmentally-friendly."
"Telenor Group recently set science-based targets to reduce our own emissions by
More details regarding Oracle's focus on sustainability can be found in Oracle's Corporate Citizenship Report.
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at https://www.oracle.com.
Additional Resources:
- Read Oracle's Sustainability Matters Blog
- Learn how Oracle is helping customers reach sustainability goals
- A Conversation with Oracle's Chief Sustainability Officer, Jon Chorley
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