Climate Change

Impact to the earth’s climate is an issue that every business must face. Climate change is Millipore’s top environmental concern. We realize that there are many ways to reduce our impact on climate change, and these efforts make us a stronger company.

Understanding Our Climate Impact

Measuring environmental impacts enables companies to understand and improve performance, and communicating that data publicly allows others to assess progress. To further demonstrate our commitment to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in April 2007 we joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program. Through this program, Millipore committed to:

Develop a companywide GHG inventory of the six major greenhouse gases (based on the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development) and report progress annually based on detailed EPA protocols and guidance;
Develop a corporate GHG Inventory Management Plan based on a detailed EPA checklist to institutionalize the inventory process; and
Set an aggressive companywide GHG emissions reduction goal to be achieved over the next 5 to 10 years.

Setting our GHG goal

In May 2008, we publicly announced our goal of reducing the company’s worldwide carbon footprint by 20 percent over five years from our 2006 baseline (see graph below). This is an ambitious effort aimed at reducing our impacts to climate change. We are actively working to achieve our goal by focusing on a range of sustainability programs, including energy efficiency, green buildings, renewable energy, and behavioral changes. Please visit our website again later as we will be providing continuous updates on our progress. To read more about our announcement, please read our press release.

HFC = hydrofluorocarbons
RTO = Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer, used to capture solvent emissions

Why did this chart change?
As part of Millipore's involvement in the US EPA's Climate Leaders Program, we added GHG data related to process manufacturing emissions to our inventory. We also wanted to show our GHG emissions goals for the next five years. Read Millipore's press release by clicking here.

Annually, we compile our baseline GHG inventory (see graph below) and include these data in our submission for the Carbon Disclosure Project annual survey, CDP-5.

Read more about Millipore's Carbon Disclosure Project CD-5 responses by clicking here.

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