Johnson Controls Sustainability Initiatives

For Johnson Controls, demonstrating environmental sustainability is a vital element of “walking the talk” we deliver in the marketplace. As a long-recognized leader in developing environmentally friendly “green” buildings, it’s imperative that our own facilities are energy-efficient, use less water and minimize waste. During 2008 we continued to focus on our own operations to identify continuous improvement activities and better our performance.

We’re currently expanding and renovating our headquarters in Glendale, Wisconsin, U.S., with the aim of making it the world’s first multi-building LEED platinum-certified campus. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the U.S. Green Building Council rating system – with Platinum being the highest certification. The buildings will be a showcase for energy-efficiency and renewable energy sources, including solar power, geothermal energy, and gray water capture and use.

Ensuring accountability and greening the supply chain

Reducing the greenhouse gas footprint of our global operations. Each of our businesses is taking steps to quantify and cut its greenhouse gas emissions. We are adding hybrids to our service fleet, installing fluorescent lighting and power conditioning equipment in our plants, and implementing manufacturing processes to reduce emissions and scrap.

Throughout our facilities, we are replacing metal-halide bulbs with newer fluorescent bulbs, an effort that saves both energy and money. The new bulbs deliver a better light spectrum, and last longer. The retrofit program saved 33 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2008 – enough energy to power 30,000 homes for one year.

Greening the supply chain. We’re quickly working to adjust the company’s supply chain management policies and processes to support our sustainability goals. Our sourcing functions will incorporate sustainability into their supplier requirements, scorecards and evaluations.

We are a member of Climate Leaders, a U.S. voluntary industry-government partnership that encourages companies to develop long-term, comprehensive climate change strategies. We also committed – first to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and later to other global agencies – that Johnson Controls would reduce its GHG intensity by 30% by 2012.

Finally, we joined the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, which is creating standards for supply chain reporting of emissions, risks, opportunities and strategies. This organization will provide a unified methodology to measure supply chain emissions using data collected directly from suppliers.

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