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Philip Morris International is committed to respecting and protecting the environment.
As with everything we do, our commitment amounts to more than good intentions. To ensure that we lived up to our commitment we’ve worked hard to:
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Comply with applicable laws & regulations; |
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Identify & evaluate the environmental impacts associated with our business activities; |
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Define measurable targets for meeting our objectives. Monitoring & reporting our performance on meeting these objectives; |
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Identify & evaluate risks associated with our business activities. Take appropriate actions to prevent & analyze them; |
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Maintain emergency procedures; |
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Communicate & train employees on known hazard and relevant environmental matters; and |
Assign responsibility to qualified persons for environmental management in each our manufacturing and processing facility.
We’ve developed an environment program in all our factories that requires each facility to track the environmental impact of its operations, including energy consumption, air emissions, waste generation and water consumption. Since 2004, we have implemented an energy efficiency program in our factories which resulted in the reduction of our carbon dioxide emission by almost 6 percent. This had a corresponding decrease in demand for electricity and fossil fuels. We hope to decrease our carbon dioxide emission by a further 15 percent until 2010.
Many of our facilities have achieved environmental management system certification (ISO 14001) from the International Organization for Standardization. In 2008 we are embarking on a multi-cluster certification of all our manufacturing facilities to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) by the year 2010.
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