Pharmaceuticals

Lilly Meets Energy-Efficiency Goals Ahead of Schedule

Lilly Meets Energy-Efficiency Goals Ahead of Schedule

Eli Lilly, a global pharmaceutical company, has reached its energy goal two years early, improving its energy intensity (energy used per dollar of sales) by ...

October 23, 2009

Pfizer Exceeds Emissions Reduction Goals, Misses Clean Energy Target

Pfizer Exceeds Emissions Reduction Goals, Misses Clean Energy Target

Pfizer has achieved three of its four public environmental goals to reduce emissions, according to the company's 2009 corporate responsibility report (PDF). The pharmaceutical company ...

October 7, 2009

Merck Slashes Energy Demand by 25%, Water Use by 15%

Merck Slashes Energy Demand by 25%, Water Use by 15%

Merck has achieved and exceeded its corporate goal to reduce energy demand by 25 percent from a 2004 baseline and its water use by 15 ...

October 2, 2009

Abbott to Launch 40 Sustainable Packaging Initiatives

Abbott to Launch 40 Sustainable Packaging Initiatives

Abbott is in the process of launching more than 40 sustainable packaging initiatives across its nutrition, pharmaceutical and medical product businesses to help achieve its ...

September 17, 2009

Group Wants Pharma Firms to Take Back Unused Meds

Group Wants Pharma Firms to Take Back Unused Meds

In a move reminiscent of the push for electronics manufacturers to take responsibility for e-waste recycling, the National Association of Counties (NACo), the nation's ...

July 30, 2009

In Pharma Sustainability, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Rate High

In Pharma Sustainability, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Rate High

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 ...

June 5, 2009

Novo Nordisk Cuts CO2 Emissions 9%

Novo Nordisk Cuts CO2 Emissions 9%

Novo Nordisk, a Denmark-based Healthcare company, released its annual report on  financial, social, and environmental performance. The non-financial part of the report, which follows current international ...

February 5, 2009

Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind

Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind

The new Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Oregon is touting itself as one of the nation's greenest hospitals. The facility incorporates energy efficiency features and reduces the amount of chemicals ...

August 6, 2008

Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals

Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals

More hospitals are discovering the economic and environmental benefits of greening their operations, Nurse.com reports. Hospitals face fines beginning at $40,000 per day if pharmaceuticals are not recycled n compliance with requirements ...

June 21, 2008

Bayer Releases CSR Report

Bayer Releases CSR Report

According to Bayer's 2007 Sustainability Report, while company growth caused an increase in GHG emissions from 7.52 million metric tons in 2006 to 7.6 million tons in 2007, it has reduced ...

June 10, 2008

Merck Pledges To Cut GHG Emissions 12% By 2012

Merck Pledges To Cut GHG Emissions 12% By 2012

Merck plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its global operations by 12 percent by the end of 2012, using 2004 as its base year. Karen Klimas, vice president, Global ...

February 21, 2008

Abbott Pledges To Reduce GHG Emissions

Abbott Pledges To Reduce GHG Emissions

Abbott has pledged to reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by two percent on an absolute basis from 2006 to 2011. "Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions demonstrates our corporate-wide commitment to improving the environment and ...

December 4, 2007

Bayer To Spend $1.46 Billion On Green Initiatives

Bayer To Spend $1.46 Billion On Green Initiatives

Bayer has launched a group-wide Bayer Climate Program with a goal of cutting CO2 emissions from its production facilities. In the new climate protection program, which is based on a new Bayer Policy on ...

November 19, 2007

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

Ninety-five percent of companies that consider climate change to present a commercial risk have implemented a GHG reduction program with a specific target and timeline, according to The Carbon Disclosure Project's 5th annual global ...

September 24, 2007

Kaiser Permanente Certifies GHG Emissions

Kaiser Permanente Certifies GHG Emissions

Kaiser Permanente has certified its greenhouse gas emissions inventory with the California Climate Action Registry, becoming the first health care organization to be tagged as a Climate Action Leader, according to Kaiser. The ...

September 10, 2007

Baxter Releases 2006 Sustainability Report

Baxter Releases 2006 Sustainability Report

Baxter International has released its 2006 Sustainability Report highlighting the company's 2006 social, economic and environmental performance (PDF). Baxter says it has made its corporate headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois, a carbon-neutral facility, offsetting ...

August 3, 2007

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate Response, a newly announced conference, is pulling together corporate sustainability leaders to talk about ...

July 17, 2007

Bayer Releases Sustainability Report, Includes Indirect Emissions

Bayer Releases Sustainability Report, Includes Indirect Emissions

Bayer says it is expanding its commitment to sustainability and the scope of its reporting on the subject. In a new Sustainable Development Report 2006 (PDF), Bayer records for the first time indirect greenhouse gas ...

July 13, 2007

The Body Shop Switches To Sustainable Palm Oil

The Body Shop Switches To Sustainable Palm Oil

The Body Shop says it has become the first cosmetics and toiletries retailer to introduce sustainable palm oil into the global beauty industry. The company is working with Daabon, a certified organic producer in ...

July 13, 2007

Abbott To Employ Hybrids & Offsets To Make Fleet Carbon Neutral

Abbott To Employ Hybrids & Offsets To Make Fleet Carbon Neutral

Abbott says it is the first Fortune 500 company to go carbon neutral with its entire U.S. fleet of company sales vehicles. Abbott has also unveiled its new Global Energy Policy and announced the installation ...

July 12, 2007

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