Pfizer's Green Journey

Managing Our Footprint
Pfizer is on a Green Journey. We are integrating environmental sustainability into our business and supplier network. This is another way Pfizer is "Working together for a healthier world.®" Building on a foundation of successful programs, we apply innovative approaches to manage our impact on climate change, improve product stewardship and manage water resources.

Pfizer has a long-standing commitment to protecting our employees' health and safety, the environment and the communities in which we operate. We continue to emphasize full compliance with legal requirements and have developed a clear vision that focuses on where Pfizer's Green Journey can add value.

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Pfizer's Green Journey includes:

Reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapting to using cleaner energy technologies. Learn more about Pfizer's climate change efforts.
Reducing our energy footprint through global conservation and energy efficiency efforts, and consolidation of certain operations. Learn more about Pfizer's improvements in energy efficiency
Requiring facilities worldwide to quantify water use, prioritize conservation measures and support community efforts during drought conditions. Learn more about Pfizer's water use
Actively pursuing opportunities to recycle and reuse materials in order to reduce and effectively manage the waste we generate. Learn more about Pfizer's waste reduction and recycling efforts
Investigating and restoring sites where we have cleanup obligations under federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Learn more about Pfizer's biodiversity and site clean-up initiatives.
Emphasizing practices such as energy performance, water conservation, renewable resources, recycling/reuse, waste management and indoor air quality at all of our sites. Learn more about Pfizer's Green Workplace program
Integrating environmental, health and safety considerations throughout the research, discovery, development and manufacture of our products to advance scientific innovation – the heart of our strength as a company – while reducing our environmental footprint. Learn more about Pfizer's Green Chemistry and Green Biotechnology programs
Reducing the packaging of some of our products through the use of innovative, functional materials and systems that are more cost effective and produce less waste. Learn more about Pfizer's sustainable packaging efforts.

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2012: Pfizer was named to the Carbon Performance Leadership Index for both the Global 500 and the S&P 500, one of only three health care companies to be recognized globally – a first for Pfizer!
2012: Pfizer ranked 91st in the Global 500 (compared to 106th in 2011) and 37th in the U.S. 500 (compared to 39th in 2011) by Newsweek.
Pfizer ranked #1 for the pharmaceutical sector on cycle 3 of Maplecroft's Climate Innovation Index US 100 (Bloomberg ticker: CI100) which represents the 100 largest US companies by free-float market capitalization. Learn more.

Pfizer and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)

2012: Pfizer was named to the Carbon Performance Leadership Index for both the Global 500 and the S&P 500, one of only three health care companies to be recognized globally – a first for Pfizer!
2011: Pfizer ranked #4 for healthcare on the CDP S&P 500 and #8 on the CDP Global 500
2010: Pfizer named to CDP leadership for 4th consecutive year. Pfizer ranked #1 for healthcare on the CDP S&P 500 and #4 on the CDP Global 500

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