Our Commitment to Climate Action

With our resources, expertise and convening power, we are taking action to positively impact planetary health and support the resilience of our business for generations to come. Johnson & Johnson has been setting and achieving carbon reduction goals for more than two decades, and our current climate goals are our most ambitious yet: 

• Source 100% of our electricity needs from renewable sources by 2025
• Achieve carbon neutrality for our operations by 2030
• Reduce absolute upstream value chain emissions 20% by 2030 (from 2016 levels)

We are also proud signatories of the Race to Zero and Business Ambition for 1.5 campaign, with an ambition to achieve net zero carbon emissions across our value chain by 2045. 

At Janssen, we are aligned to these goals, and we are working across our operations to improve our environmental footprint. Today, over half of Johnson & Johnson’s global electricity use comes from renewable sources, and in 2021, the company completed multiple deals for renewable electricity in North America and Europe that are expected to take us to the equivalent of 100% renewable electricity for all of our operations in the United States, Canada and Europe, including all Janssen facilities in these markets.

Our Operations:

Through energy efficiency projects, renewable electricity and the deployment of new technologies, we are improving the environmental footprint of our operations. We are also advancing innovations in our facilities and our supply chain to conserve and protect water and to rethink waste as a catalyst for innovation.

For example:

• Our Janssen Sciences Cork, Ireland facility is home to one of four wind turbines at Johnson & Johnson locations in Ireland. In 2022, the site was also recognized by the World Economic Forum with a Sustainability Lighthouse designation, a community of world-leading manufacturing facilities and supply chains using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to increase operational performance and environmental sustainability.
• At our Janssen campus in Beerse, Belgium, multiple wells, each approximately 1.6 miles deep, will soon provide renewably sourced hot water that will significantly reduce the site’s emissions.

Several of our facilities are LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) including facilities in Mumbai, India, Leiden, Netherlands, and Xi’an, China.