A Sustainability Leader

Invitation to join Pew Center’s council recognizes the progress Johnson Controls has made and makes for controlling climate change

Johnson Controls continues to strengthen its leadership role in the critical issue of climate change.

The company has accepted an invitation to join the Pew Center’s Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC). Johnson Controls is one of just 44 companies invited to join this organization, which focuses on the development of climate change strategies. These companies are leaders in taking action to reduce carbon emissions.

“The Pew Center’s Business Environmental Leadership Council was created at the center’s inception with the belief that business engagement is critical for developing efficient, effective solutions to the climate problem,” according to a spokesman for the BELC. “We also believe that companies taking early action on climate strategies and policy will gain sustained competitive advantage over their peers.”

The council is the largest U.S.-based association of corporations focused on addressing the challenges of climate change.

This significant honor reflects Johnson Controls’ commitment to business practices and solutions geared toward practical climate action. The company’s work in energy efficiency includes a pledge made last year to reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions’ intensity per dollar of revenue by 30 percent from 2002 to 2012. It has also pledged to work with 15 major cities worldwide as a partner in the Clinton Climate Initiative to reduce emissions by improving energy use in buildings.

Johnson Controls is united with other BELC members in a commitment to action. According to the BELC, in July 2008, members accepted the following guiding principles:

Climate change is occurring and the impacts are already being felt.
Businesses can and should incorporate responses to climate change into their core corporate strategies by taking concrete steps in the U.S. and abroad to establish and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, and/or invest in low and zero greenhouse gas products, practices and technologies.
The United States should significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through economy-wide, mandatory approaches.
Climate change is a global challenge that ultimately requires a global solution. A post-2012 international climate framework must establish fair, effective, and binding commitments for all developed and major developing economies.

For more information, go to http://www.pewclimate.org/companies_leading_the_way_belc/company_profiles/johnson_controls_inc.