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Industry Leadership Depends Environmental Leadership |
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Carrier believes that industry leadership demands environmental leadership. In fact, environmental stewardship is one of our company’s core values. We continuously work to improve the environmental performance of our products and services, operations and culture to help achieve a sustainable society. More about sustainability and the environment can be found at the company’s new sustainability micro site at www.carrier.com/green.
Sustainability is Part of Our History
For more than two decades, Carrier as been incorporating sustainability into not only the products we make but also into how we make them. Since 1994, Carrier has led the industry in the phase-out of ozone depleting refrigerants while introducing many of the world’s most energy efficient heating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems. We are committed to reducing the greenhouse gas impact of our products through energy efficiency advancements and the refrigerants we use.
We were among the first companies to set energy reduction goals for our factories in 1988. This led to our first company-wide global environmental, health and safety goals in 1997. More recently, from 2000 to 2009, Carrier reduced its air emissions by 76 percent and water usage by 52 percent on an absolute basis. Since 2006, we have lowered our greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent.
Our environmental commitment extends beyond our walls to our communities and the marketplace. Carrier is the only company in the world to be a founding member of the U.S., Argentina, China and India Green Building Councils. In fact, Carrier was instrumental in launching the U.S. Green Building Council in 1993 and was the first company in the world to join the organization. Carrier’s Rick Fedrizzi was the council’s first chairman, and later went on to lead the organization as President and CEO.
In China, Carrier serves as a formal international advisor to the China Green Building Council, having helped introduce the green building council model to that country in 2002.
In 2010, Carrier unveiled a new brand identity emphasizing its roots in environmental sustainability. The new identity combines the elements of a stylized green leaf exclusive to Carrier with the existing “turn to the experts” theme line. |
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