EPA Climate Leaders Greenhouse Gas Goal Announced

As part of its global Sustainability Initiative, Millipore publicly announced its goal of reducing the company’s worldwide carbon footprint by 20 percent over five years from its 2006 baseline.

Millipore’s overall Sustainability Initiative encompasses a range of programs focused on reducing the company’s consumption of non-renewable resources, eliminating waste and adopting behavioral changes that support long-term environmental sustainability. Many of these programs are aimed at substantially reducing Millipore’s contribution to GHG emissions, a key factor in global climate change.

Millipore set this long-term greenhouse gas goal because it is a partner in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program. Climate Leaders is a voluntary partnership between industry and the federal government to develop and implement greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies.



Participation in Climate Leaders includes:

• Developing a global GHG inventory and reporting progress annually;
• Developing a corporate GHG Inventory Management Plan to help institutionalize the company’s inventory and data gathering process; and
• Setting aggressive GHG emissions reduction targets to be achieved over the next 5 to 10 years.