Title: Environmental Sustainability in GSK
1Environmental Sustainability in GSK
- Mark Rhodes
- Corporate Environment, Health and Safety
- GlaxoSmithKline
2Who we are
- One of the worlds leading producers of
prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer
healthcare products - 100,000 employees in 117 countries
- Annual Corporate Responsibility Report with
extensive environmental data - Corporate EHS and myself
3What is Sustainability
- UN (Gro Brundtland) global perspective
- Allow future generations to achieve at least the
same standard of living that we enjoy while
improving the condition of the current generation - Triple Bottom Line industry perspective
- Economic, social and environment
- GSK perspective
- Good for our patients, customers, company,
employees, communities and the environment
4Characteristics of a Sustainable Company
- Mission broad and flexible
- RD provide needed products for a global
economy and evaluates the life cycle impacts of
their products - Manufacturing utilise efficient processes that
use sustainably sourced materials. Provide
products in superior, optimised packaging that is
recyclable and uses recycled materials - Commercial educates customers about GSK product
benefits while demonstrating the contributions of
our supply chain that is the most efficient,
safe, and environmentally responsible in the
industry - People provide a safe, supportive environment
that encourages innovation, resilience and
productivity - Customers understand their current and future
product needs - Communities maintain transparency and external
stakeholder engagement
5GSK EHS Framework for Sustainability
Through this framework we influence behaviour at
both the corporate and individual level
6RDs Sustainability Approach for Manufacture of
New Products
- Sustainable Chemistry (Build in not bolt on)
- First Step (Improve efficiency)
- Improvement Target for new products from 2006 to
2010 - Reduce waste per unit of product by 50
- Reduce natural resource consumption per unit
product by 50 - Use materials that are less hazardous
- Embed inherent safety into the processes
7Better Products by Design
8FLASCTM
- Estimates the Life Cycle environmental impacts of
materials - The FLASC score allows for Greenness
Comparisons of - different routes to the same API or routes to
different APIs. - Avoids hidden impacts e.g., with outsourcing
- Normalises for differences in the complexity of
the API - Shows percent improvement between different
options - Enables What-if comparisons
9Example of output for FLASCTM
Score 1 to 5 (HIGH is GOOD)
10Dutasteride, a treatment for benign prostatic
hyperplasia
- RD Stevenage and Cork manufacturing teams have
improved the process which - improved the material efficiency from 1 per cent
to 3.7 per cent, saving up to 5.7 million/year - saves energy the chemical reaction now requires
only four hours at 86C compared to 22 hours at
100C previously - vastly reduced the use of solvent and therefore
waste - reduced waste by 70, which avoids up to 80
tonnes of waste per annum - is more robust than the previous process,
resulting in less waste through failed batches - reduces exposure of employees to hazardous
materials
11Product StewardshipPharmaceuticals in the
Environment
- Public and media concern for PiE
- GSK responding by research and publications of
results
Regulatory review EA for NDAs for FDA ERAs for
MAAs for EMEA
GSK and Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
12Sustainability in Manufacturing
- Improvement Targets
- Second Generation Process Improvement
- Soon after product launch
- Contract Manufacturers
- Reputational and product interruption
132010 EHS Targets (from a 2006 baseline)
- EHS Audit Scores
- Facility Audit (Average for all GSK) 6
improvement - Minimum Audit Score (GSK and Contract
manufacturers) 70 - Health and Safety
- Reportable Injury Illness (total
ergo) 5/yr reduction - Chemical Exposure at Unit Operations (for OHC
3,4,5) 80 respirator-free - Energy and climate change (pro-rated on sales)
- Energy Efficiency 20 reduction
- Greenhouse gas emissions (global warming
potential) 20 reduction - Environment (pro-rated on sales)
- Wastewater (organic waste COD) 3/yr
reduction - Water consumption 2/yr reduction
- Air (volatile organic emissions) 2/yr
reduction - Solid Waste (non-hazardous) 1/yr reduction
- Environmental Sustainability
- Ozone Depletion (CFC 11 and 12 use) 100
elimination - Material Efficiency of new processes for API
(ave. 2006-2010) 100 improvement
14Environmental PerformancePercentage Change 2005
to 2006 per sales
Hazardous waste disposed
Water consumption
Energy consumption
Non-hazardous waste disposed
Wastewater chemical oxygen demand
Volatile organic compound emissions
15Pack innovation
16Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing
- Objective
- Manage reputation
- Avoid product supply interruption
- Green the supply chain
- Audits
- Audited before selection
- Covers environment, health, safety, loss
prevention, human rights - Must achieve minimum audit scores equivalent to
GSK operations - Periodic audits against company standards
- Partnerships
- Higher rejection rate among contract
manufacturers in certain developing countries - Work with selected contract manufacturers to
upgrade performance - Reporting
- Hope in the future to report the aggregate EHS
performance annually
17GSKs contribution to global warming
6,742 million kilograms of CO2 equivalent in
2006
- CO2 is the way global warming potential (GWP) is
measured
GSK
33,200 million kilograms of CO2 equivalent in
1998 from inhalers
18Climate Change
- Continuing the effort to address energy
conservation and related impacts - Targets from 1995 to 2000 (energy) and from 2001
to 2005 (energy and GWP) - Responding to public concern
- New Targets
- Operational Energy and Global Warming Potential
(both relative to sales from a 2006 baseline) - 20 before end of 2010 and
- 45 by the end or 2015
- Funding
- A new, special fund of both capital investment
and operating expenses to support energy
efficiency and renewable energy projects (to
2015) - Position paper
- To address concerns of stakeholders GSK and
Climate Change - Product Stewardship
- Research options to inhaler propellant used in
products - Add information re 1998 CFC MDIs GWP vs today
19Sustainability and GSK Investor Ratings
- Business in the Environment
- Premier League 2002-2005
- Platinum level - 2006
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- 2003-2006
- FTSE4Good
- 2001-2006
- Carbon Disclosure Project
- Climate Leadership Index 2005/6
- Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the
World - 2005, 2006
20Further information
- GSK's position paper on Climate Change
- GSK position paper on Pharmaceuticals in the
Environment - GSK 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report (pages
60-81 cover our environmental performance) - GSK reporting of key environmental issues