Respecting the Environment
Innovation That Drives Environmental Responsibility is Core to our Strategy
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We demonstrate our commitment to environmentally responsible behavior by reducing the footprint of our products, adhering to compliance and regulations worldwide, and adopting responsible approaches to our daily business operations.
Product Environmental Impacts
Fortinet is focused on reducing the environmental footprint of our customers by innovating highly efficient, integrated appliances and cloud-based security solutions.
Product Design & Life Cycle Management
When it comes to our products, environmental sustainability is a top priority at the design stage and throughout the entire product lifecycle. This includes product energy use and efficiency, the safety of material inputs required for proper product operations (e.g., chemicals, water), ease of reuse and recycling, and proper disposal at the end of life.
All of our products comply with all globally recognized product environmental compliance directives and regulations. We are also working with our Contract Manufacturers to eliminate PVC from Product Packaging.
Regarding compliance with the WEEE directive, Fortinet requires its distributors and resellers worldwide to perform an environmentally friendly, WEEE-compliant collection of discarded products at no charge to the user.
Energy Management
Years of dedicated innovation and the development of the industry's only security-focused processors have allowed Fortinet to integrate multiple security and networking functions into a single, energy-efficient platform. This has resulted in appliances that use less power, space, and cooling. In addition, Fortinet's family of proprietary secure processor units (SPUs) are built for power and efficiency.
As a result, Fortinet produces the most energy-efficient appliances in the industry, helping our customers and partners reduce their environmental footprint. These advanced security solutions consume as much as 3X fewer resources than traditional appliances, helping lower the ecological impact of data centers, which consume around 2% of all energy worldwide.
Climate Change and Environmental Management
Fortinet takes its responsibility to the environment seriously. We have pledged to reduce our impact on climate change and have taken steps to mitigate our environmental footprint.
From an operations standpoint, we are committed to driving an environmentally low impact business, including energy, air pollution, waste, and water, across our globally distributed offices, facilities, and data centers. This includes monitoring and managing our impact on the climate from owned operations and supply chains related to greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, and renewable energy procurement; the ability to recover from and manage risks, such as the impact of more extreme weather events and natural disasters; and transition risks, such as the increasing cost of energy and customer expectations related to energy and emissions.
Fortinet invests in renewable electricity and sustainable projects. All of Fortinet’s owned facilities around the world run on 100% renewable electricity. Furthermore, Fortinet's recent headquarters expansion is a state-of-the-art 172,000-square-foot and LEED-Gold certified. This all electric, net-zero facility has implemented multiple energy efficiency measures including solar panels and radiant cooling, which uses 30% less energy than a standard building and conserves 76,800 gallons of water annually. Fortinet also incentivizes employees at its headquarters to reduce their environmental footprint by providing onsite solar-powered EV Charging Stations, preferred parking spaces for sustainable energy vehicles, and installed bike racks.
Fortinet works with supply chain and logistics service providers committed to ensuring the application and enforcement of environmental policies aimed at reducing air emissions and pollutions by promoting the use of clean fuels, transportation network optimization, and investing in fuel-saving technologies. We have local RMA depots in over 20 countries and central regional depots in North America, Europe, and Asia. These help us reduce transportation-related emissions by minimizing shipping distances and consolidating shipments, collecting defective products at centralized locations, performing local repairs, and recycling defective units in compliance with local regulations.