Energy record wins Colgate top EPA awards
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Eleven more Colgate-Palmolive manufacturing sites have successfully achieved the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star Challenge for Industry in 2014.
Thirty-one Colgate sites have now earned this recognition, surpassing the Company’s 2015 goal to have half its sites around the world achieve the distinction. The sites were recognised for reducing energy intensity by at least 10 per cent – with a number of sites achieving reductions above 20 per cent.
Earlier this year, the US EPA also recognised Colgate with the 2014 Energy Star Partner of the Year – sustained excellence award – among the highest levels of EPA recognition. It highlights Colgate’s continued leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency.
Colgate’s commitment to energy efficiency is an important part of the company’s global sustainability efforts, which include a 2020 goal to reduce carbon emissions on an absolute basis by 25 per cent compared to 2002, with a longer-term goal of a 50 per cent reduction by 2050.
Colgate’s commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are part of the company’s recently launched 2015 to 2020 sustainability strategy.
