Dell engaged with Ceres and a team of external stakeholders, selected by Ceres and focused on sustainability, to review this year’s corporate responsibility report. This team is an independent group of individuals drawn primarily from the Ceres coalition and representing a range of constituencies that have expertise in environmental, social and governance issues. In reviewing this report, the team considered whether the company adequately reported on its sustainability performance and key impacts, including goals, targets, systems, data and initiatives. Dell also worked with key partners in our global giving and diversity and inclusion areas. Through this review process, these groups provided Dell extensive feedback, which was considered in the preparation of the final version of this report. Listed below is their input and Dell’s response.
| Stakeholder Input | Dell Response |
| Explain Your Business Case for Sustainability | - Included information about what makes a good sustainability plan in the Environmental Responsibility section of the report
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| Address in More Detail
Key Challenges in
Environmental and
Supply Chain | - Added content about challenges in Brominated Fire Retardation (BFR) elimination and recycling to the Environmental Responsibility section of the report
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| Be More Specific in
Sharing Your Data
and Goals | - Continued to enhance our transparency in terms of progress against goals through “Accomplishments for Fiscal Year 2009” on pages 9−11 and “Goals for Fiscal Year 2010 and Beyond” on page 12
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| Provide More Information on Results and
Benchmarking | - Provided year-to-year results in our key performance indicators (see “Dell by the
Numbers” on page 8) |
| Enhance Your Global
Perspective | - Attempted to incorporate a global dimension in key metrics, examples, challenges and successes
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| Share More Information on Your Public Policy | - Added more information about public policy in the Environmental Responsibility section of the report, because policy changes so fast it is difficult to publicly address issues
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| Feature More Success
Stories and Partner Profiles | - Featured a success story or profile of a Dell partnership in each section of this report
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Dell makes it a priority to engage with a range of stakeholders on their corporate responsibility initiatives. From our formal sustainability group with Ceres, to our involvement with Business for Social Responsibility and our connection with socially responsible investors, engaging with stakeholders is vital to the development of corporate responsibility initiatives. Below are just a few of the stakeholders we are involved with:
| Category | Stakeholders |
| Donation Partners | - Ecodair and Emmaus (France)
- Fundação Pensamento Digital (Brazil)
- Goodwill Industries (U.S.)
- National Cristina Foundation (Canada and U.S.) ReCOM (U.K.)
- Rehab and the RT Centre (Ireland)
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| Governmental Organizations | - EU Commission (Europe)
- Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan) Department of Trade and Industry (U.K.)
- Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
- Legislators and many other regional, country and local-level agencies
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| Nongovernmental Organizations | - Alliance to Save Energy
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- Basel Action Network
- Business for Social Responsibility
- Carbon Disclosure Project
- Carbonfund.org
- Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
- Ceres
- ChemSec
- Clean Production Action
- Electronics Take Back Campaign
- Environmental Defense Fund
- ForestEthics
- Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Good Electronics
- GreenBlue Institute
- Greenpeace
- National Recycling Coalition
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Oko-Institute
- Recycling Alliance of Texas
- Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
- Texas Campaign for the Environment
- The Asia Foundation
- The Climate Group
- The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
- The Conservation Fund
- World Resources Institute
- World Wildlife Fund
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| Socially Responsible Investment Advocates | - As You Sow
- Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd.
- Boston Common Asset Management
- Calvert Group Ltd.
- ClearBridge Advisors
- Columbia University Endowment Fund
- Domini Social Investments
- Dreyfus Corp.
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- F&C Asset Management
- Green Century Capital Management
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
- Loring Wolcott & Coolidge
- MMA Praxis Mutual Funds
- Parnassus Investments
- Pax World Funds
- Socially Responsible Investment Coalition
- Walden Asset Management
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| Socially Responsible Investment Influencers and Indices | - Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
- Ethical Investment Research Service
- Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
- KLD Research and Analytics, Inc.
- Portfolio 21
- Sustainable Asset Management Research
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| U.S. Trade Associations | - American Electronics Association
- American Enterprise Institute
- Business Software Alliance
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Consumer Electronics Association
- Democratic Attorneys General Association (organized as a 527)
- Democratic Governors Association (organized as a 527)
- Information Technology Association of America
- Information Technology Industry Council
- National Council of State Legislatures
- National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative
- National Governors Association
- Republican Attorneys General Association (organized as a 527)
- Republican Governors Association (organized as a 527)
- Solid State Technology Association
- TechNet
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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