environmental Strategist between the lines: After so many years of delivering competitive environmental intelligence on why businesses need to develop and execute their environmental Management Strategy (eMS), it’s refreshing to find success stories to help encourage you to commit today to raise the level of your professional service. DuPont realizes an eMS is necessary to compete in today’s business environment. It is in fact a competitive advantage
I like the part in the article stating “It was the right thing to do for the environment, it was over and above any kind of legal requirement, but we also made money doing it.” DuPont understands what environmental Strategist (eS) have been saying for years, to be successful in today’s business environment, you have to operate above and beyond government compliance. By doing this DuPont is controlling their future.
Businesses that do not develop and execute their eMS are at the mercy of the government and this is a very unstable business platform to build success.
You can be assured that DuPont will start to require their vendors to follow suit and if you are in the door, working with your client’s to develop and execute their eMS, you are an indispensable part of their TEAM.
An eMS benefits business both big and small.
DuPont unveils ambitious environmental plans
“Our vision as a company is about sustainable growth,” says CEO Holliday
By JEFF MONTGOMERY, The News Journal
PostedTuesday, October 10, 2006at11:28 am
The DuPont Co. today announced ambitious new corporate commitments to “sustainable” businesses, products and conduct worldwide, expanding the company’s long-term goals in the areas of climate change, energy efficiency, environmental protection and safety.
Charles O. Holliday Jr., the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, said that DuPont hopes the strategy will yield an additional $6 billion in revenues by the year 2015.
“Many companies say that what’s good for the environment can also be good for business. We have a slightly different view: What’s good for business must also be good for the environment and for people everywhere in the world,” Holliday said in a prepared statement.
David Doniger, policy director of Natural Resources Defense Council’s climate center, said this morning that that DuPont already has made real improvements in the company’s environmental record.
“Dupont’s made a lot of progress in reducing its global warming emissions. Partly that’s from refashioning its business, selling things off and changing what they do, but largely, it’s a real improvement,” Doniger said. “They seem to be pledging more of the same, and we need more progress of that kind, from companies that take a forward-looking position.”
Holliday said the company’s actions, announced this morning in Washington, D.C., would span all of the company’s global operations and would be tied directly to company growth and development of “safer and environmentally improved new products.”
“Our vision as a company is about sustainable growth,” Holliday said.
In 1990 DuPont announced plans to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for causing global warming and climate change. The company has also committed to curb energy consumption and increase use of renewable energy sources to 10 percent by 2010, and already has increased the share of renewable energy supplies to 6 percent.
“It was the right thing to do for the environment, it was over and above any kind of legal requirement, but we also made money doing it,” Holliday said.
For complete coverage see The News Journal on Wednesday or www.delawareonline.com.
Contact Jeff Montgomery at 678-4277 or jmontgomery@delawareonline.com