Our path to sustainability follows a balanced strategy that includes energy efficiency goals for our company's owned and controlled properties; investments in renewable and alternative energy sources; measuring and reporting our progress; and the pure momentum that comes from product innovation and employee involvement.

Our Environmental Sustainability Commitments

BNY Mellon's comprehensive approach to environmental sustainability includes: applying rigorous operating and energy efficiency standards to our buildings with an eye toward ENERGY STAR® and LEED certification; measuring and implementing strategies to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG); investing in renewable energy; decreasing paper use and reducing waste while increasing the use of post-consumer recycled products and building materials; engaging employees so they, too, can become sustainability champions; and developing products and services — such as Socially Responsible Investment vehicles and a Carbon Trading Platform — for the financial services marketplace.

Key Achievements

• Received 11 ENERGY STAR awards covering 5.6 million square feet;
• Purchased 1.1 million Renewable Energy Credits as part of a five-year investment in renewable energy, the equivalent to 225 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, or 60 percent of the company's projected global electricity usage in 2010;
• Participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), publicly disclosing carbon emissions for every owned, controlled or leased facility in the 34 countries in which the company operates. BNY Mellon's 2009 CDP score is 78 out of 100, up 32 points from the previous year. As a result, BNY Mellon was named to the CDP Carbon Disclosure Leaders Index, comprising the top 50 S&P 500 companies and it is listed among the CDP's top five financial institutions in the S&P 500 Index; and
• Recycled more than 5.2 million pounds of office trash, white paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and plastic. For facilities that are tracked, which currently represents more than half of our employees, this is 60 percent of total waste.