Environmental Performance - AMD Green 

Our commitment to environmental stewardship 

AMD Green is our integrated environmental, health and safety stewardship commitment that encompasses AMD products, operations and employees.   It is our commitment to customers, partners, communities and employees to pursue performance-per-watt leadership, energy efficiency, and environmental responsibility in our products and operations.

AMD actively participates in industry-wide efforts to promote and improve responsible EHS management and policy development.  This dedication to environmental stewardship influences our products, operations, and employees in collaboration with partners around the world.

  • Products: Designing processors and chipsets that use less power and generate less heat for a smaller environmental footprint, yet provide stellar performance-per-watt.
  • Operations: Designing and operating our global facilities as responsible environmental stewards, by achieving LEED Gold certification for our new Lone Star campus in Austin, Texas (USA) and powering the AMD Dresden (Germany) site (now a part of GLOBALFOUNDRIES) with ultra-efficient tri-generation plants.
  • Climate Protection: Maintaining a well-defined strategy for reducing our impact on the global climate.

AMD's Global Climate Protection Plan published annually since 2001, demonstrates our dedication to reducing our impact on the environment. AMD was honored to receive the 2008 Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for our continued commitment to protecting the global climate through energy-efficient product innovation, facility design and management, and industry education.

Environmental Health and Safety Management Systems

AMD is committed to reducing the impact of our operations on the environment and providing a safe and healthful workplace for our employees.  We maintain management systems at our manufacturing facilities that are based on a single set of global environmental, health and safety (EHS) standards.  These performance-based standards are the foundation of EHS management systems at each of our manufacturing facilities and are applied equally across our operations.
 
Periodic assessments are conducted to determine the conformance of manufacturing facility operations to our global standards.  These assessments are often coordinated with periodic compliance audits and audits for management system certification.  Corrective actions identified during any assessments or audits are managed until closed. 

All AMD owned and operated manufacturing facilities are certified to the International Standards Organization's 14001 standard for Environmental Management Systems.  Additionally, several of our manufacturing facilities are certified to the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18000 for health and safety management systems. 


Each of our manufacturing facilities tracks a variety of operational indicators such as energy and water consumption, waste generation, air emissions and other metrics relevant to measuring operational performance from an EHS perspective.  We maintain a central database for managing this information and share this data with other internal stakeholders to identify and track continuous improvement opportunities.