Climate ChangeClimate change is one of the most pressing environmental challenges facing the world today. Autodesk offers a range of products and tools that help customers improve the environmental performance of their designs, such as decreasing building energy use, optimizing utility networks, and enhancing product materials use (see the Products and Industries sections for more detail). We are also working to optimize the environmental footprint of our own operations. Overall, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our business operations in 2007 equaled about 64,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). This total comprises three main categories: employee business travel (commercial air, company car fleet, rental cars, and employee use of personal cars for business purposes), energy use in our facilities, and employee commuting (see graph). As described throughout this section, we have plans to improve our footprint in each of these areas. We are working to set a companywide GHG reduction goal, normalized to account for future growth, as well as goals for other aspects of our environmental footprint, which we plan to include in our next report. | 