Tiffany & Company, Brown-Forman Corporation and UPS have been recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency as winners of the EPA’s 2015 Climate Leadership Awards.
UPS was one of six organizations honored with the agency’s Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management Goal Achievement Award. The company set a goal in 2011 to reduce its carbon intensity from transportation 10 percent by 2016, from a 2007 baseline, and surpassed that goal with a 12 percent reduction in 2012 and a 13 percent reduction in 2013. UPS’s reduction strategy included operating a single, optimized global network; employing intermodal shifting to provide customers with low-carbon transportation options; investing in innovative solutions to minimize miles driven and flown; and working with drivers and pilots to improve performance. UPS also received the EPA’s Climate Leadership Award in 2012 in the Supply Chain Leadership category.
Tiffany and Company and Brown-Forman were among eight companies recognized with the EPA’s Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management Goal Setting Certificate, awarded for publicly reporting and verifying company-wide greenhouse gas inventories and setting aggressive emissions reduction goals.
Tiffany & Company set an absolute greenhouse-gas reduction goal of 15 percent between 2013 and 2020 for global operations. Its reduction plan includes energy-efficiency improvements such as the use of LED lighting strips at retail stores and upgraded HVAC systems; the use of energy-efficient building systems for new stores and facilities; and an expansion of its renewable energy portfolio. The company set and exceeded an initial goal of reducing its U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 10 percent per square foot between 2006 and 2011, earning a Climate Leadership Award for Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management Goal Achievement in 2013.
Brown-Forman set an absolute greenhouse-gas reduction goal of 15 percent for its global operations between 2012 and 2022. according to the EPA. To achieve that goal, Brown-Forman plans to switch from fossil fuel to biomass in its steam boilers at distillation operations; to change the processing of byproducts from grain distillation operations to reduce energy consumption; and to switch steam boiler fuel at one production operation to a fossil fuel that is less greenhouse-gas intensive.