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Protecting the Environment

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Sanofi’s immediate and long-term success requires decisive leadership to protect our planet, natural resources and biodiversity that humanity depends on.

At Sanofi, our dedication to improving people’s lives goes beyond innovations in healthcare. We believe that we need less, better, and greener resources along the life cycle of medicines and vaccines. As a global organization we also bear great responsibility to take actions that mitigate the consequences of climate change on human health today and for future generations, including food and water shortages, reduced air quality, and conditions that support the spread of diseases and allergies. These actions include minimizing the environmental impact of our products and activities as well as supporting others in similar efforts. We are also strengthening our own resilience in the face of environmental changes.

How we Maximize Opportunities

  • By aligning decisions with the environmental expectations of the world’s patients, our employees and stakeholders, including investors and governments.
  • By reducing our emissions across our entire value chain towards net zero emissions by 2045 with an intermediate carbon neutrality 2030.
  • By limiting our environmental footprint and adopting circular solutions that conserve energy and reduce waste, we support the conservation of resources and contribute to biodiversity protection.
  • By improving the environmental profile of our products, delivering eco-innovative products and by fostering a sustainable use of medicines
  • By addressing the negative impact of climate change on human health, supporting the prevention of premature death; air pollution-related illnesses such as respiratory infections, heart diseases, and lung cancers; consumption or contact with contaminated water that causes gastrointestinal illness and allergies; and climate-sensitive health outcomes such as extreme heat events, floods, droughts, and fires.
  • By engaging supporting and developing employees and business partners in our environmental ambitions.
  • By assessing climate change-related risks and opportunities for our business, to develop robust strategies unlocking transition potentialities.
  • By partnering with external groups to develop new solutions and methodologies for the environment and support our suppliers (e.g Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative).

How we Minimize Risks

  • We prioritize environmentally conscious decision-making at all levels of the organization and incentivize behavior consciously choosing to protect the environment.
  • We prevent risks to the environment through the implementation of environmental policies and practices that reflect our commitments for the planet.
  • We reduce reputational risk and loss of stakeholder confidence by transparently disclosing externally our performance and progress toward our objectives, as an example through CDP disclosure.
  • We prioritize environmental protection in the selection of our business partners.
  • We ask our suppliers to endorse our supplier code of conduct and provide them ESG guidance (available in Sanofi suppliers portal).
  • We assess climate change-related risks on our operations and value chain, to develop robust mitigation strategies.