Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at SAS

Environmental Sustainability

While SAS helps more than 80,000 customers innovate for the future, the company itself is a sustainability innovator, from streaming data to improve operations through its smart campus project to powering office buildings with clean energy from its solar farms. SAS works closely with employees, suppliers and customers to reduce its environmental footprint with programs focused on energy conservation, emissions management, pollution mitigation, water conservation, green building and others. See how SAS uses its own software to collect, manage, calculate and report its global environmental footprint through these environmental performance reports that use SAS® Visual Analytics.

In addition to its own sustainable initiatives, customers use SAS analytic expertise and powerful software solutions to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals of affordable and clean energy, climate action, and sustainable cities and communities. SAS is committed to achieving the following environmental goals:

By 2025, SAS will reduce global greenhouse emissions by 25% compared to its 2011 base year.
By 2025, office buildings at SAS headquarters will improve energy efficiency by 40% (per square foot) and emissions efficiency by 50% (per square foot) compared to its 2010 base year.
All new building construction projects will earn LEED® Gold level certification.
SAS will add 50% more charging stations at its headquarters by 2020 and continue to explore ways to support electric vehicle infrastructure.
SAS will continue to use analytics to improve operational efficiencies and invest in the highest efficiency smart technologies, renewable energy, electric vehicle infrastructure and environmentally-friendly practices across its operations.
SAS will plan and report progress against science-based targets in support of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Community Impact and Philanthropy

The rise of new technologies demands a new generation of skills. SAS supports education at all levels to shrink the analytics skills gap and prepare more students for college, work and success in the analytics economy.

SAS has deep roots in academia. Its founders were part of a consortium of eight universities to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data. These bold minds were pioneers in using data for the greater good. Decades later, education is still its primary philanthropic focus. From preschoolers to graduate students, SAS supports countless educational programs to raise the collective intelligence and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring quality education for students worldwide.

As an essential part of its commitment to education and philanthropy, SAS contributes to charitable initiatives in the U.S. and abroad. While some programs aim to help students to reach their full potential as future leaders and innovators, others support underprivileged families with food, clothing and money. By driving efforts to improve education and society, SAS embraces its role in the greater global community.