EHS Goals in Action
- Abbott commissioned Environmental Resources Management, Inc. to provide third party verification of Abbott's direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions for 2007 for the purposes of corporate reporting.
2010 Goals
We set five-year goals to reduce water usage, carbon dioxide emissions, hazardous waste, employee injuries and commercial fleet vehicle accidents and have achieved several of them already in 2007. By concentrating on these key areas, we have and will continue to generate the greatest environmental, health and safety, and financial benefits for our company, employees and other stakeholders. We set more aggressive goals for three important areas: reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, reduction in global fleet vehicle accidents, and reduction in lost time cases due to serious employee injury. We are in the process of re-setting goals for water conservation and waste generation to replace those achieved ahead of schedule.
Visit Performance Against 2010 Goals for complete 2007 performance against goals. Environmental and safety data from all of Abbott’s global facilities, and by region, are included in our results.
We established a more comprehensive Climate Responsible Energy policy in 2007 along with several new climate-related goals. These aggressive goals include:
- Achieving a 30 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by year-end 2011 versus a baseline of 2006 (indexed to sales). This is a significant update to our former 2010 goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent.
- Achieving a 12 percent overall reduction in electric energy purchased by year-end 2011 (indexed to sales).
- Investing in renewable energy capital projects, or alternative energy sourcing, that produce no CO2 emissions at each of our major manufacturing locations by year-end 2011.
- Eliminating 12 percent of combined fuel oil and coal consumption by switching to cleaner fuels by year-end 2011.
