Pharmaceuticals

Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals

Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For HospitalsMore 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

EL Pro Bayer Releases CSR Report

Bayer Releases CSR ReportAccording 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 2012Merck 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 EmissionsAbbott 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 InitiativesBayer 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 RiskNinety-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 EmissionsKaiser 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

EL Pro Baxter Releases 2006 Sustainability Report

Baxter Releases 2006 Sustainability ReportBaxter 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 StrategiesWith 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

EL Pro Bayer Releases Sustainability Report, Includes Indirect Emissions

Bayer Releases Sustainability Report, Includes Indirect EmissionsBayer 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 OilThe 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 NeutralAbbott 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

Bayer Launches Viral Campaign, Tacks On Environmental Twist

Bayer Launches Viral Campaign, Tacks On Environmental TwistBayer Consumer Care has launched an online game to promote Aleve Liquid Gels. Players assist the fictional scientist Dr. Albert Briggs and journalist Evelyn Bloom, on their quest to restore the flow of information ...

July 12, 2007

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact SummitA flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such as Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Fuji Xerox, China Ocean Shipping Group, Tata Steel, L M ...

July 6, 2007

EL Pro Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The WorldThe Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in the world. 1. Vestas Wind Systems has more than 30,000 wind turbines generating electricity globally ...

June 4, 2007

Pfizer, Goldman Sachs Founding Members Of New Sustainable Business Forum

Pfizer, Goldman Sachs Founding Members Of New Sustainable Business ForumGoldman Sachs and Pfizer are founding members of the Sustainable Business Forum, what Rainforest Alliance, the organization that launched the forum, says is an effort to help companies plan and meet long-term sustainability goals.  The SBF says it will ...

May 23, 2007

EL Pro Abbott Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Abbott Releases Corporate Social Responsibility ReportAbbott has released its 2006 Global Citizenship Report. As part of its efforts to protect the environment, Abbott has set five-year performance goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, hazardous waste and water usage, and improve workplace ...

May 11, 2007

Recent RFPs

Recent RFPsApril 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy   Climate Change, Land Use Change and Invasive Species   Photovoltaic Devices ...

May 3, 2007

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change StrategiesEnvironmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO now committing to act on climate change, big US brands are scrambling to ...

May 2, 2007

Baxter Offsets 100% Of Headquarters’ Electricity

Baxter Offsets 100% Of Headquarters’ ElectricityIn a keynote address today at the 2007 Ceres Conference in Boston, Baxter Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert L. Parkinson, Jr. announced that  in recent weeks Baxter has purchased renewable energy certificates equivalent ...

April 25, 2007