Pfizer Environmental Commitment

It has been argued that big corporations are sometimes the ones that cause greater damage to the environment. However, it is also true that many of these companies are making an effort to give back and preserve our natural resources. For example, Pfizer (of Viagra fame) is one such large corporation committed to reducing their carbon and energy footprint. Carbon footprint can be defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide and methane emissions of a given population, system or activity; this emissions can be quite damaging to the environment. At Pfizer, each operating facility embarks in annual projects to improve energy efficiency in at least a 5%. Other goals are reducing CO2 emissions by 20 percent by 2012, and developing and applying clean energy technologies.

In order to reach these goals, the company has set out to improve energy efficiency throughout business operations, promote leadership in energy management and environmental stewardship, increase colleague awareness and engagement with conservation, and conduct energy assessments. As a result, these measures have increased operational efficiency, lowered energy costs, as well as product costs. Since 2010, over 21% of the company's electricity comes from clean energy outlets.

Other areas covered by this conservative effort include green buildings, water, waste and recycling, air emissions, biodiversity, and site clean up. The general commitment of Pfizer to protecting the environment includes maintaining safe and environmentally sound operations, contributing to local and global efforts to preserve the environment, fomenting openness and dialogue with stakeholders and partners, integrating principles of stewardship through the product life-cycle, ensuring sourcing from suppliers that perform operations in a safe and responsible fashion, and driving continual improvement in environmental, health and safety performance. As can be gathered from all of this, this company is more than just an online pharmacy, and has a keen sense of responsibility towards the environment.