Our Commitment to Environmental Stewardship

As a global corporate citizen, 澳门正规博彩十大排行平台 strives to operate in ways that protect the environment and contribute to the health of our employees and communities. We have a long history of reducing our environmental footprint through the comprehensive efforts here.

Increasing energy efficiencies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions

We have demonstrated our commitment to this by:

  • Actively designing and renovating facilities to be energy efficient and embrace the highest standards articulated by green building rating systems. All U.S. building construction and renovation projects meet either LEED Gold certification requirements from the U.S. Green Building Council or CALGreen building code requirements from the State of California in place at the time of project execution.
  • Purchasing 100% of our electricity for our Marin County campuses from Marin Clean Energy, with more than 60% of 澳门正规博彩十大排行平台’s electricity for our these campuses generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar.
  • Reducing water consumption and improving efficiency of water utilities through use of innovative technologies, including computerized sensors and automatic isolation valves.
  • Achieving ISO 50001 certification for our Shanbally, Ireland energy management system (EnMS) in 2017 and maintain the accreditation to date. The EnMS provides a formal framework for lowering thermal and electrical energy use and reducing GHG emissions through development of targets as well as regular audits and activity reviews.
  • Implementing a clean, natural-gas-fired co-generation system at our Novato manufacturing facility. This system captures heat from generators to produce the steam used in our production processes and is capable of generating 2 MW of electricity.
  • Installing a photovoltaic system comprised of 434 solar panels on the roof of our San Rafael campus parking structure. The system produces approximately 115 kWh of power – nearly equal to the electricity needed to power the 161 EV charging stations and other systems and equipment in the structure.

Our Commitment to Transparency in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting

澳门正规博彩十大排行平台 is committed to understanding the impact of our business practices on the environment and managing our global emissions footprint. We further recognize the importance of understanding our climate-related risks and acknowledging our stakeholders’ interests in our plans to continue ensuring we prioritize minimizing our impact on the environment.

Our campuses consist of multiple manufacturing facilities that produce biologic and gene therapies and perform important pilot scale work, in addition to laboratories, warehouses and office space supporting our clinical development and commercial initiatives.

 

For 2020, activities at the two campuses generated the above GHG emissions

澳门正规博彩十大排行平台 developed and implemented a standard for the collection and verification of GHG data that aligns reporting of this information with the Principles for Effective Disclosure section of the Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the GHG Protocol.

澳门正规博彩十大排行平台 has also begun to assess the most impactful and cost-efficient mitigation strategies to minimize our carbon footprint.

1 Data covers all buildings within our operational control at our Northern California and Shanbally campuses. Sources of Scope 1 emissions from our campuses include combustion of fuels by stationary equipment, releases of refrigerants and laboratory use of chemicals.

2 The location-based figure we have reported for our Scope 2 emissions is based on the amount of electricity purchased and the average emissions intensity of the grids on which our energy consumption occurs. It does not account for the fact that we purchase electricity for all of our campuses that is generated from renewable sources like wind and solar.

3 Emissions associated with our Northern California campuses were calculated in accordance with the GHG Protocol and methodologies at US 40 CFR 98 and 17 CCR 95000 et seq., and by utilizing EPA eGRID emission factors.

4 Emissions associated with our Shanbally campus were calculated in accordance with the GHG Protocol and by utilizing common conversion factors for energy use in Ireland (http://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/conversion-factors/).

5 2020 figures have been updated to include all of our Northern California campuses within our operational control. Previously published figures only included emissions from our Novato and Shanbally manufacturing campuses.

6 Total Scope 1 + 2 GHG emissions have stayed relatively flat despite an increase in manufacturing capacity at our Shanbally campus. GHG reduction initiatives, such as conversion to LED lighting, have balanced increases in emissions from new bioreactors and packaging suites, in addition to a new fill finish facility and a cold chain storage building.