Germany-based Merck has set new climate protection targets for its global pharmaceutical and chemical operations: by the year 2020, global carbon dioxide emissions are to be reduced by one-fifth, measured against the 2006 level.
With respect to the reduction of pollutant emissions, Merck is also expanding the measurement scope, from only direct emissions to indirect emissions. The reduction measures focus on the 15 sites that jointly produce over 80% of Merck’s total emissions worldwide.
In future, the company aims at new drugs for unmet medical needs, specialty chemicals for the generation and efficient use of energy as well as analytical methods, that help make food and water supplies for a growing world population safer.