International. Newsweek, with the support of Corporate Knights Capital, conducted an environmental impact assessment study with the 500 largest companies in the world.
From those results, they selected the 10 greenest companies of 2015 among which are included brands related to biotechnology, telecommunications, consumer goods:
1. Biogen Cambridge, Massachusetts: Biogen has worked to reduce water use throughout its operations. Its facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, features a 100,000-liter cistern to store rainwater and use it for irrigation, significantly reducing municipal water consumption. In its two main laboratories located in Cambridge, Biogen has opted for an innovative approach. The building where the laboratories are located stores the condensed water produced by the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration units, which totals about 2.4 million gallons, and uses it in the cooling towers of the facility.
2. Shire Plc Dublin, Ireland: In 2014, the company achieved carbon neutrality at all of its facilities in North America, one year ahead of its target. Recognizing that sustainability is not a static measurement but an ongoing process, the company conducted an assessment in 2014 to identify its most critical environmental issues. In the report, the use of energy, water and materials appears as a key objective in the coming years. Greenhouse gas emissions were also seen as a potential problem, so Shire will launch a global policy on climate change this year as its next critical step.
3. Allergan Irvine, California: The company began formulating its sustainability strategy more than 20 years ago. During the 1990s, Allergan began collecting and analyzing water use data from its facilities around the world, resulting in a 12 percent reduction in water consumption between 2000 and 2010. In 2014, Allergan received the Star Energy Partner of the Year award and the Environmental Protection Agency's Sustained Excellence award for its energy efficiency efforts.
4. Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc Slough, England: In 2004, Reckitt Benckiser stated that sustainability should be part of the core functioning of its organization. That year, the company went from producing an annual independent environmental report to generating a more comprehensive sustainability report. The company has set itself strict targets for environmental risk reduction in 2020, including reducing waste landfill landfill to zero and reducing water use by 35 percent, waste production by 10 percent and energy use by 35 percent.
5. Adobe Systems Incorporated San Jose, California: In 2014, the company achieved carbon neutrality at all of its facilities in North America, one year ahead of its target. That same year, Adobe was the first Fortune 500 company to install an energy intelligence system from Stem, the high-tech company. The system allows Adobe to not only store energy, such as that produced by the 20 wind turbines at its headquarters in San Jose, California, but also respond to peaks in the building's electricity consumption, making use of backup energy. The system also allows Adobe to help stabilize local grid operations during peak demand periods and minimize the building's impact on the environment.
6. Swisscom Ag Worblaufen, Switzerland: Among the company's goals is to increase its energy efficiency by 25% from 2010 to 2015 and by 35% more from January 2016 to 2020. Swisscom exemplifies its commitment not only to the environment, but also to business transparency by using an energy and emissions savings assessment method developed in collaboration with Myclimate and WWF Switzerland.
7. Unilever Plc Rotterdam, The Netherlands + London, England: Unilever's sustainability efforts can have benefits that extend to the whole world. In addition to setting a goal of halving the environmental impact related to the manufacture and use of its products by 2020, Unilever has launched the BrightFuture programme, which aims to recruit one billion people to commit to creating a better society and environment. (To date, some 215.5 million people have been recruited.)
8. Broadcom Corporation Irvine, California: The company is committed to increasing its energy efficiency and reducing natural resource consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and other negative environmental effects related to the company's global real estate portfolio. One way Broadcom is delivering on this promise is by reducing its water consumption. Its headquarters, located in Irvine, California, use more than 17 million gallons of treated water each year for garden irrigation, making it the city's largest consumer of treated water.
9. Roche Holding Ag Basel, Switzerland: In 2009, the company committed to reducing its energy consumption per employee by 10 percent in 2014, but met the goal a year earlier. Currently, the company is moving towards a new goal of reducing energy consumption: 20 percent by 2020.
10. Bt Group Plc London, England: In the previous fiscal year, BT decreased its energy use worldwide by 4.5 per cent, reduced the amount of waste it sends to landfills in the UK by 34 per cent and decreased its water consumption in that country by 12 per cent. In 2020, the company plans to help its customer base reduce its carbon emissions by a ratio of three tonnes to every tonne of carbon produced by BT's internal operations.
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