Transportation Fleet Vehicles
Our goal for transportation includes a 10 percent increase in fuel economy from 2009 to 2015 for the combined U.S./Canada fleet. The 2010 U.S. and Canada fleet fuel economy is 10.5 kilometers per liter (24.6 miles per gallon). In 2008, 140 hybrid vehicles were added to the U.S. fleet.
| Fleet fuel economy (m/g) |
2009 |
23.4 |
24.6 |
5% |
10% |
| Fleet fuel economy (km/l) |
2009 |
10.0 |
10.5 |
5% |
10% |
Bristol-Myers Squibb's fleet leases vehicles in the United States and Canada. The estimated annual CO2 emissions from these vehicles for 2010 were 30.0 million kilograms and are roughly 5 percent of the total CO2 emissions associated with our operations worldwide. From 2009 to 2010, these emissions decreased 11.8 percent in absolute terms. A transition to vehicles with four-cylinder engines in the Unites States is expected to drive progress against this goal.
Air Travel
Air Miles Flown
| 253 million |
239 million |
241 million |
Global data tracked by our corporate travel service indicate that company employees flew a total of 241 million air miles in 2010, representing approximately 43.5 million kilograms of annual CO2 emissions. Between 2009 and 2010, CO2 emissions from air travel have decreased by 9.4 percent absolute. We continue to look for opportunities to reduce our transportation-related environmental impacts.
Logistics
We are working with the shippers we use to identify environmental impacts, and to take innovative steps to reduce these impacts. Examples of improvements implemented so far for some of our products, resulting in carbon emission and cost reductions, include:
- changing the transportation mode from air to ocean shipping, and
- enhancing shipping efficiency by modifying tertiary packaging to reduce shipping volume.
Videoconferencing
With videoconferencing capabilities at Bristol-Myers Squibb facilities worldwide, our employees are conserving energy and reducing pollution, and saving time and costs associated with traveling to attend company business meetings. 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 travel.
Local Traffic
In partnership with the government of the Hopewell Township, New Jersey, where we have a research facility, Bristol-Myers Squibb is addressing the effects of business traffic on community life. We are participating 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. We are working to minimize and reduce traffic flow by surveying existing patterns and offering flexible work hours to employees, as well as encouraging car and van pools and the use of mass transit and park-and-ride facilities. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Commuter Assistance Center is a focal point for these efforts.