We record and report our worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with The Climate Registry, a nonprofit collaboration among North American states, provinces, territories and Native Sovereign Nations that sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report GHG emissions into a single registry.

Our worldwide inventories were developed using The Climate Registry’s General Reporting Protocol which follows the same principles as these of the World Resource Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WRI/WBCSD) GHG Protocol -A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (Revised Edition).  These company-wide inventories include GHG emissions from the following sources:

• Direct emissions from stationary combustion of fossil fuels
• Indirect emissions from the use of electricity
• Direct emissions resulting from manufacturing or processing of chemicals and raw materials
• Fugitive emissions resulting from the intentional and unintentional releases of hydrofluorocarbons
• Direct mobile emissions resulting from Corning's aviation fleet and motor vehicles

The gases reported in the inventory include all six internationally-recognized greenhouse gases regulated under the Kyoto Protocol:
 

• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Nitrous oxide
• Hydrofluorocarbons
• Perfluorocarbons
• Sulfur hexafluoride

This bar graph shows Corning greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by source from 2005 to 2015, measured in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2-e). Source types are:  purchased electricity, stationary combustion, industrial process, mobile combustion and fugitive. The results cover GHG emissions under our operational control and have been independently verified by a third-party verifier.