Environmental performance

	Units	2007	2006	2005	2004
Environment
Environmental data coverage	Scale 1-10	8.5	7.6	7.4	7.9
Environmental data quality	Scale 1-10	8.1	7.6	7.8	7.7
Environmental reporting coverage	Full-time equivalent	298,738	288,822	252,914	220,055
Coverage as % of Group		95%	96%	94%	90%
*Carbon dioxide emissions^1**
Total CO₂ emissions	tonnes	897,000	813,000	663,000	585,000
CO₂ emissions from energy	tonnes	718,000	634,000	539,000	497,000
CO₂ emissions from business travel	tonnes	179,000	179,000	124,000	88,000
Total CO₂ emissions per person	tonnes	2.86	2.81	2.62	2.66
CO₂ emissions per person from energy	tonnes	2.29	2.20	2.13	2.26
CO₂ emissions per person from business travel	tonnes	0.57	0.62	0.49	0.40
CO₂ emissions per m²	tonnes	0.13	0.13	0.11	0.11
*Carbon dioxide emissions by region^2**
Total CO₂ emissions
– Europe	tonnes	144,000	145,000	130,000	118,000
– Asia-Pacific^*3	tonnes	335,000	278,000	250,000	224,000
– North America	tonnes	236,000	292,000	216,000	211,000
– Latin America	tonnes	93,000	84,000	65,000	57,000
– Middle East	tonnes	10,000	14,000	0	0
Total CO₂ emissions per person
– Europe	tonnes	1.88	1.86	1.75	1.84
– Asia-Pacific^*3	tonnes	3.00	2.87	3.28	3.45
– North America	tonnes	4.32	5.01	3.84	4.17
– Latin America	tonnes	1.57	1.43	1.21	1.18
– Middle East	tonnes	5.56	4.77	0.00	0.00
Environmental: resource efficiency
Total energy consumption	gigawatt hours	1,832	1,780	1,610	1,496
Energy consumption per person	kWh/full-time equivalent	6,134	6,163	6,366	6,798
Energy consumption per m²	kWh/ m²	291	283	268	285
Total electricity consumption	gigawatt hours	1,515	1,486	1,313	1,141
Electricity (brown)	gigawatt hours	935	1,032	971	853
Electricity (green)	gigawatt hours	530	454	342	288
Primary fuel sources (gas, oil, diesel, etc)	gigawatt hours	315	293	297	355
Total waste produced	kilotonnes	64	68	54	47
Waste disposed per person	tonnes/full-time equivalent	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.12
Waste disposed	kilotonnes	32	35	30	27
Waste recycled	kilotonnes	32	33	24	20
Recycled	%	50	49	44	43

Total water consumption	thousand m³	4,638	4,687	4,041	3,629
Water consumption per person	m³/full-time equivalent	15.5	16.2	16.0	16.5
Business travel
Total business travel	million km	1,227	1,200	850	635
Business travel per person	km/full-time equivalent	4,107	4,155	3,361	2,886
Air travel	million km	883	831	557	408
Domestic air travel	million km	198	228	108	77
International Air travel	million km	685	603	449	331
Rail travel	million km	28	21	21	20
Road travel	million km	252	283	233	201
Other travel	million km	45	65	39	6
Haulage	million km	20	31	18	7

^*1 Figures for 2007 are scaled up to represent 100 per cent coverage. Figures also factor in a percentage for uncertainty in the reporting system, and include renewable energy certificates.
^*2 These figures are based on data collected from HSBC’s regional reporting units and include renewable energy certificates for 2006 and 2007. For the purpose of carbon neutrality, the figures for 2007 are then scaled up to 100 per cent full-time equivalent employees and additional factors are included to compensate for uncertainties as advised by HSBC’s assurance providers.
^*3 Includes emissions from service centres and technology centres, which contributed 95,232 tonnes.

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