Adobe Sustainable Development

Adobe &

Environmental Sustainability

An Adobe CSR Brief

2012

At Adobe, we are inspired by purpose-driven creativity. We believe that everyone has the power to create and that being creative is not confined to any one sector or profession. “Create Change,” our corporate social responsibility (CSR) call-to-action, guides how we operate our business, design new products, and address pressing social and environmental issues.

The Adobe CSR Brief series shares our current progress and continuing efforts to apply our creativity toward solving problems every day. Adobe & Environmental Sustainability highlights a few of our ongoing and new environmentally focused initiatives. These efforts are led by our Environmental Sustainability Council, a global, cross-functional group

of employees tasked with developing and implementing Adobe’s strategies.

Today, Adobe is recognized by Newsweek, Ethisphere and the U.S. Green Building

Council as one of the greenest companies in the world. We are proud of our success

so far, but know that we are just beginning. We will continue to strive to exceed industry certification standards and maximize efficiency with cutting-edge technology, all while empowering employees to create a culture of environmental sustainability.

We are pleased to announce three new environmental sustainability goals:

• Achieve Net Zero energy consumption by 2015 in our owned facilities in

the United States

• Reduce the amount of product packaging used per unit by 40 percent by 2012,

and 80 percent by 20141

• Expand our employee-led Green Team to all of our 12 major sites globally

by 2015

1 Packaging reduction is based on a 2011 baseline.

Adobe’s Path to Net Zero Facilities

Adobe is on a journey to achieve Net Zero energy usage in our facilities. We are working to ensure that our buildings produce or offset as much energy as they consume, resulting in a net zero energy usage. For the past decade, we...