Environmental Performance: Transport

Transportation Impacts

Our operations have three primary transportation impacts: receiving materials from suppliers, distributing product to customers, and selling product through our sales force. Most materials in and out of our facilities are shipped via common carrier by truck, air service, or ship. Our focus on reducing the cost of transporting goods prevents inefficient and wasteful practices.

Bristol-Myers Squibb leases vehicles in the United States and Canada; the estimated annual CO2 emissions from these vehicles for 2007 were 40 million kilograms. This is roughly 4 percent of the CO2 associated with our facilities worldwide (either directly released or resulting from the generation of electricity purchased and used by us). These emissions decreased 12 percent (absolute or 18 percent when normalized by sales). The company's goal for transportation includes a 10 percent increase in fuel economy from 2004 to 2010 for the U.S. fleet. The current U.S. and Canada fleet fuel economy is 10.9 kilometers per liter (25.7 miles per gallon), the same as last year.

Key Performance Indicator	Baseline Year	Baseline Performance	2007 Performance	Baseline Year - 2007 Performance (% Change)	Goal (%)	Goal (Value)
Fuel economy for U.S. fleet (m/g)	2004	23	25.7	12%	10%	25.3
Fuel economy (km/l)	2004	9.8	10.9	12%	10%	10.8

Data from 50 countries tracked by our corporate travel service indicate that company employees flew a total of 307 million air miles in 2007, representing approximately 54 million kilograms of annual CO2 emissions. Between 2006 and 2007, CO2 emissions from air travel have increased by 10 percent from 49 million kg. We continue to look for opportunities to reduce our transportation-related impacts.

Air Miles Flown
2005	2006	2007*
374 million	278 million	307 million
*The scope of data has been expanded to include 2 more countries than in prior years.

Videoconferencing is being used throughout Bristol-Myers Squibb to save time, costs, and the EHS impacts of traveling to attend company business meetings. We have videoconferencing facilities in 23 countries. By using these videoconferencing capabilities, our employees are conserving energy and reducing pollution. We estimate that we avoided several million air kilometers and hundreds of thousands of automobile kilometers annually by using videoconferencing. In addition, we realized productivity and cost savings from videoconference meetings.

Bristol-Myers Squibb also actively encourages the use of electronic meetings via our intranet as a means for reducing the impacts of travel.

In partnership with the Hopewell Township, New Jersey, government, Bristol-Myers Squibb, which has a major research facility in the township, is addressing the impacts of business traffic on community life. It is a participant in a local public/private partnership—the Hopewell Valley Traffic Management Coalition—which seeks to balance quality-of-life issues with the demands of reasonable growth. The company and its partners have sought to minimize and reduce traffic flow by surveying existing patterns and then, in response, by offering flexible work hours to employees and encouraging car and van pools and the use of mass transit and park-and-ride facilities. A newly created Bristol-Myers Squibb Commuter Assistance Center will be the focal point of these efforts.

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