HCL Advances Go Green! Initiative With Carbon Neutral Global Customer Meet

Unstructure 2008 Will Be a Uniquely Paper-Free Conference That Will Provide Benefits to Ecologies and Feature Keynote Address From Nobel Prize Winner and Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore

HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider, today announced that Unstructure 2008, its annual Global Customer Meet, will be a carbon-neutral event as it offsets its carbon emissions with Carbonfund.org, one of the country's leading carbon offset organizations. By joining Carbonfund.org's CarbonFree Partner program, HCL has joined a national movement of businesses and organizations that are leading the fight against global warming.

In addition to Unstructure 2008 being a carbon neutral event, HCL is advancing its Go Green initiative by using this event as an incentive to plant more than 650 oak trees in 2.8 acres of land in the Western Himalayas near Shyamlatal, District: Champawat, Uttarakhand. These trees are the natural habitat of the oak silk worm, which also feeds on the leaves of these oak trees. The silk from the open-ended cocoons of the oak silk worm were used in the making of the silk scarves, which were distributed to all guests at Unstructure 2008. The silk is known as "Peace Silk" because it is drawn only after the oak silk worm moth has emerged, with no harm befalling the silk worm itself.

"Oak Silk production in the Garhwal Himalayas started as an idea in conservation," said Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL. "The idea was to promote livelihoods by using forest resources without destroying the trees. The income from oak sericulture became an economic incentive for the local community to contribute to the conservation of a region listed on the World Wildlife Fund's Global 200. We hope that the scarves leave our guests with a sense of appreciation for HCL's Go Green Initiative."

While the scarves are representative of the eco-friendly support HCL is providing to the region in which the silk is produced, its efforts to make Unstructure 2008 a carbon neutral and paper-free conference are indicative of its efforts to promote environmental consciousness on a global scale.

"We are very pleased that a company with a global presence like HCL has accounted for, minimized, and offset the environmental impact of an event like Unstructure 2008," said CarbonFund.org Executive Director, Eric Carlson. "Beyond the positive impact of the carbon offsets, the example HCL sets for its guests will help them to better understand sustainability solutions and how they themselves can reduce climate change impacts. We are proud to provide HCL with carbon offsets as a way to demonstrate one solution that is readily available today."

Carbonfund.org's CarbonFree Partner program supports renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects in the U.S. and abroad to reduce CO2 pollution and help hasten our transition to a clean energy future.

Including HCL staff and guests, Unstructure 2008 will welcome approximately 800 attendees, who will produce estimated carbon emissions of 1446.46 metric tons, roughly half the volume of the water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Through its arrangement with Carbonfund.org, HCL will compensate for these emissions by purchasing carbon credits, which will be split equally into carbon offsets of Reforestation, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

For its efforts, HCL will receive recognition from Carbonfund.org and be added to its list of over 900 CarbonFree® Partners.

In addition to its reforestation and carbon offsets, Unstructure 2008 will include a number of other environmentally conscious features including a keynote address from former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Al Gore on action ideas for businesses on how they can become truly sustainable

HCL's green efforts at Unstructure are a precursor to the launch of its green technology services slated for late Q4 2008.

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