Novozymes recognized for its reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, Novozymes

Release Date: 2010-02-23

Novozymes has received the Environmental Tracking Carbon Verification Leaders Award which recognizes companies that document and verify their greenhouse gas emissions

The award comes from the London-based Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), an independent nonprofit research organization promoting ecological and ethical investment systems.

“We see the ET index as yet another sign of the growing importance of combining better business, cleaner environment, and better lives, which is Novozymes’ vision,” says Claus Stig Pedersen, responsible for Novozymes’ global Sustainability Development. “It’s good to receive recognition for the fact that the external audit covers not only the company’s financial data but its social and environmental data too.”

Novozymes was ranked in the top 1% by the ET Carbon Ranking Methodology and was one of only seven organizations in the world whose reported emission figures for greenhouse gases were fully accepted, because Novozymes’ figures are externally verified and fulfill a standard accepted by the EIO.

Claus Stig Pedersen continues: “It’s important for Novozymes to be able to position enzyme technology as part of the solution to addressing climate change. Accordingly, Novozymes has a target linking sales of enzymes to the corresponding reduction in customers’ CO2 emissions. In 2009 the reductions were estimated to be 27 million tons.”

Type:	NORMAL
Company:	Novozymes
Country:	Denmark