How Has HP Achieved its 2025 Climate & Circularity Targets?

Sustainabilitymag · May 22, 2026 · 632 words · By Lucy Potter

Corporate Governance Environmental Sustainability Corporate social responsibility

HP's 2025 Sustainability Progress Report details the company's achievements in reducing emissions, increasing renewable energy use, and implementing circular product design. The article outlines the company's current milestones and its updated long-term targets for 2030 and 2040.

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“With more than 55,000 employees and operations in more than 180 countries, HP develops software, services, devices and subscriptions to drive business growth.”

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The provided evidence for claim 0 contains general information about HP's sponsorships and technical details about TPM firmware, but does not contain data regarding the number of employees (55,000) or the number of countries of operation (180).

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“HP met or exceeded all of its 2025 sustainability goals”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Inc.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HP OMEN, also known as simply OMEN or OMEN by HP, is a line of high-end gaming PCs, laptops, peripherals and PC parts manufactured by HP. The name comes from the former VoodooPCs line of desktops that…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HP ZBook is a brand of mobile workstations made by HP Inc. Introduced in September 2013, as the portable variant of the HP Z workstations, it is a successor to HP's previous mobile workstations in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_ZBook

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“It reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions from global operations by 69% by 2025, compared to 2015”

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The evidence discusses general CO2 emissions and other companies (General Motors), but does not provide any specific data regarding HP's Scope 1 and 2 emissions reductions between 2015 and 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is a discontinued proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, now out of standard support (Mature Support on HP…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas. It is a business-focused organization which works in servers, storage, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenText AQM (Application Quality Management), formerly known as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), is a software suite used in application development and management. It includes modules for pla…
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“reached 66% renewable electricity in its operations, achieving 100% in the US.”

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The evidence provided describes HP's general business activities and products, but does not mention renewable electricity percentages for global or US operations.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (; née Sneed; born September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard (HP)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HP may refer to:
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“It also exceeded its goal of helping suppliers cut two million tonnes of CO₂e emissions between 2010 and 2024, reaching 2.47 million tonnes.”

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The evidence discusses global CO2 trends and a different company (Alstom), but does not mention HP's specific goal or achievement of reducing supplier emissions by 2.47 million tonnes.

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“HP recycled 1.21 million tonnes of hardware and supplies by 2025, since the beginning of 2016”

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One web search result mentions HP recycled 118,000 tonnes in 2020 and has a goal for 2025, but it does not confirm the specific figure of 1.21 million tonnes recycled by 2025. The claim's specific number is not corroborated by the provided evidence.

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web search NEUTRAL — Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random-access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and c…
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web search NEUTRAL — HP has recycled 118,000 tonnes of hardware and supplies in 2020.By 2025, HP's goal is to reach carbon neutrality and zero waste in its operations and 100 per cent renewable electricity in global opera…
https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/hp-bets-…

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web search NEUTRAL — By recycling one million tonnes of e-waste through the Recycle My Electronics program, Canadians have made an impact on our shared future of diverting e-waste from landfills and illegal export.
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“eliminated 72% of single-use plastic packaging compared to 2018.”

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The evidence mentions HP's strategy to eliminate plastic foam and a specific shipment of 24 million systems in fibre packaging, but it does not confirm a 72% reduction in single-use plastic packaging compared to 2018. One result mentions 72% in the context of Italian public opinion on food packaging, which is unrelated to HP.

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web search NEUTRAL — HP endeavours to eliminate unnecessary packaging and hard-to-recycle materials such as plastic foam. In 2020, the sustainable technology partner shipped no less than 24 million personal systems in fib…
https://www.livingtomorrow.com/insights-and-stories/hps-thre…

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web search NEUTRAL — Environmental impacts caused by single-use plastic food packaging.Public opinion on strengthening plastic packaging regulations Roughly 72% of respondents expressed strong support for tightening Itali…
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web search NEUTRAL — One single-use plastic bag is estimated to have a lifespan of 12 minutes, according to Environment Massachusetts. To reduce the use of single-use plastic bags, cities, states and countries around the …
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2019/04/22/single-use-plas…

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“It aims to reduce value chain emissions by 50% by 2030”

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The evidence mentions that Inditex (Zara) and the US Government have targets to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030, but there is no evidence provided that HP has this specific target.

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web search NEUTRAL — Inditex will use supply chain transformation, support for biodiversity and circularity initiatives to cut emissions along its value chain 50% by 2030.The more ambitious targets were approved by the In…
https://www.retailtouchpoints.com/features/news-briefs/zara-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Sony Group Corporation announced a series of new medium-term environmental goals, including new targets to reduce Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60%, and group-wide Scope 3 value chai…
https://www.esgtoday.com/sony-sets-goal-to-reduce-value-chai…

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web search NEUTRAL — A strong 2030 emissions-reduction target (known as a “nationally determined contribution,” or NDC) has re-established the United States as a global leader on climate change.6 Words to Describe the US …
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“achieve net zero by 2040”

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“achieve 100% renewable electricity in its global operations by 2040.”

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“In 2025, 96% of its home and office printers, desktops, notebooks, displays and workstations contained recycled content.”

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“HP’s Designed for Circularity initiative, launched in 1992, provides a set of principles that inform the development and design of HP products.”

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