Overview of Challenges & Value
GE is an advanced technology, services and finance company taking on the world’s toughest challenges by finding ways to respond that create value. GE businesses depend on the infrastructure, skills and institutions of stable prosperous...

Features Creating Sustainable Value for Shareowners
Responsibility to Shareowners GE is one of the most widely held stocks in the world. Ownership of the Company can and does benefit millions of people through flows of dividends and capital benefits, both to individual shareowners and through such...

Action Points Innovation in Sewage Treatment
One of the big challenges of the city of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, has been the treatment of sewage. A significant amount is still being discharged into rivers without treatment, jeopardizing the safety of the water...

Action Points Oil Sands and Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is all about leveraging unique material properties that exist at the smallest scales. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—by comparison, a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. Researchers get excited about...

Employee Perspectives The Challenge & Opportunity of Natural Gas
We’re living and working in unprecedented times. Unemployment is still high in a shaky economy, global political unrest is reported daily and natural disasters are wiping out entire regions. Simultaneously, industries and communities are...

Addressing the World’s Energy & Environmental Challenges
Cleaner, greener prosperity makes sense both environmentally and economically. In an effort to increase energy security, mitigate the risk of climate change, and to create jobs, countries around the world are calling for greater efficiency and...

2010 Highlights
Strategy In the past 10 years, GE has repositioned its portfolio through divestitures representing 50% of the Company to focus on key global themes such as energy, water and healthcare, and built strength in the core businesses of providing the...

Right to Water: Institute for Human Rights & Business
Businesses—either as users, as enablers of access to water or as providers or distributors—have a close connection with the interface between human rights and water. This is particularly so for GE, given our large and growing water business. We...

Remedial Responsibilities
GE was formed in 1890 and now has facilities across the globe. GE began operating many of those facilities at a time when scientific understanding of chemical use and regulatory requirements was far different from now. Changing laws, regulations and...

Water Inventory
GE annually collects water data for those sites consuming more than 15 million gallons a year. This includes water used for potable, process and sanitary purposes, as well as once-through cooling waters from freshwater sources. Two GE sites withdraw...