In Pharma Sustainability, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Rate High

June 5, 2009

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On a scale of 1 to 100, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are the only pharmaceutical companies to rate above 70 in a recent survey of sustainability practices in the sector.

At 76 and 75, respectively, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson lead the first-ever review of the pharmaceutical sector by Climate Counts.

Other firms scoring highly are Baxter (66) and GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Schering-Plough, all three of which scored 60.

Climate Counts evaluates firms’ commitments in four areas:

whether they have measured their carbon footprint
if they reduced their impact on global warming
if they have supported or blocked climate legislation or policy
to what level they have publicly disclosed their climate actions

AstraZeneca scored highly in all sectors except for policy, in which it scored a zero out of ten.

Johnson & Johnson scored highly in all sectors except for measuring its own carbon footprint, an area in which it scored 12 out of 22.

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