Although the semiconductor industry is an extremely minor contributor to overall greenhouse gas emissions by sector in Europe, we remain very committed to playing our small part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The industry in the mid 90’s was the first global sector industry to come together and set reduction targets for the emissions of PFC(perfluorinated gases) and as such has been recognized by authorities as a leader and model for other industrial sectors. The European goal is to reduce by 2010 the absolute PFC emissions of the European industry by 10% below the baseline year of emissions in 1995. If no progressive action had been undertaken by the European industry to reduce emissions, these would have increased significantly more than the 1995 under a ‘business as usual’ scenario. The global goal is coordinated through the World Semiconductor Council (WSC), with each regional semiconductor trade associations in Japan, Korea, America, and Taiwan having individual goals to contribute to the worldwide reduction efforts. It is important to outline that – through the WSC - the semiconductor industry was the first industry to align globally and establish a worldwide greenhouse gas emission goal which goes beyond the targets established by the Kyoto protocol for Annex 1 countries. The European industry is on course to meet its target despite a significant increase in device production levels over this time.