A significant and expanding aspect of Disney’s Environmentality is reducing greenhouse gasses (GHGs) through energy conservation and waste minimization. To aid in this effort, Disney businesses have improved upon building efficiencies, implemented unique recycling programs, introduced clean fuel vehicles, and promoted ridesharing. Plans are in place to further develop this commitment through emissions inventories that will serve as a foundation for managing the overall carbon footprint. Although some of these initiatives will require investments up-front, they are designed to achieve new long-term and sustainable benefits, including cost savings.

Based on Disney’s 2005 recycling and waste prevention tonnages in the U.S., the EPA has reported that TWDC reduced an equivalent of more than 71,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Continual planning is underway to enhance green building design elements while the Company prepares to develop the first GHG emissions inventory.