Timberland has a target to become carbon neutral by 2010. This means that we will address our own footprint by reducing the emissions created by our facilities and employee travel.

Timberland will employ a five step process to achieve carbon neutrality.

Step 1: Verify our greenhouse gas inventory with a third-party vendor.
Step 2: Reduce energy demand through energy efficiency improvements.
Step 3: Purchase whatever clean, renewable energy we can from electric utilities.
Step 4: Generate our own renewable energy on-site where we can't purchase clean energy from the electric grid.
Step 5: Purchase renewable energy credits to offset emissions and help develop local renewable energy projects.

• Make our climate impact transparent through public reporting and third-party verification
• Target a reduction in our carbon emissions by 50% by 2010 over a 2006 baseline.
• Work with a third-party to have our greenhouse gas inventory verified and registered with the Climate Registry.
• Source more clean energy in Timberland-owned facilities and factories
• Increase the number of LEED certified buildings.
• Use 60% renewable energy by 2015.
• Reduce emissions associated with product and employee transportation
• Reduce employee travel emissions by 25% by 2010.
• Develop a better understanding of the inbound and outbound emissions associated with our product.
• Leverage the relationship with our footwear supply chain to reduce climate impact
• Partner with Clean Cargo Working Group to measure and publish the energy footprint of our supply chain.
• Focus on our employee's contribution to climate change
• Educate and empower employees to make a personal commitment to emission reduction.

*As of December 2008, we revised historical data from 2006 (our current baseline) through year end 2008 to account for updated emissions factors provided by the WRI/ WBCSD Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. Best practice in GHG accounting calls for inventories to use the most up-to-date emissions factors. In this process, we also discovered historical accounting errors in our 2006, 2007, and 2008 data, mostly due to better record-keeping and improved understanding of energy consumption in some of our Asia offices. We are still verifying data corrections in 2008 energy reporting related to select retail stores. Should any further corrections be necessary, we expect emissions to decrease slightly and will update our 2008 annual data. In the meantime, please note that we have restated our 2006 baseline, and 2007 and 2008 performance accordingly.

As a result of restating our 2006 baseline, we are also restating our long-term emissions reductions goals in order to maintain absolute emissions reductions targets of 24% in 2008 and 50% in 2010 (over the 2006 baseline).

We are on track to have our GHG Inventory verified by a third party by 2010.

Read more about our progress and challenges ahead in Timberland's Climate Strategy.