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Reduce our environmental impact to protect health

Reduce the carbon and environmental footprint of our activities, adapt our value chain and operations to climate challenges, preserve water resources, and optimise our production processes.
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Respecting the environment: a key commitment for health

Environmental issues and their repercussions on public health are challenges that increase the prevalence of certain diseases while complicating the capacity of healthcare systems to sustainably meet patient needs.
Our goal is to balance industrial performance, innovation, and responsibility, for the benefit of patients and the planet:

Our evidence:

  • ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: - Preserve water resources and reducing LFB water consumption by 10% by 2030 (vs 2022). - Identify LFB’s climate vulnerabilities along its value chain by the end of 2026. ANALYSING THE LIFECYCLE OF OUR PRODUCTS: - Conduct a carbon assessment of medicines whose sales represent 80% of our revenue by 2030*. - Initiate an eco-design review of the packaging of products whose sales represent 80% of LFB’s revenue by the end of 2027. LIMITING WASTE PRODUCTION : - Achieve an 80% of recovery rate for non-hazardous waste by 2030. - Study of the feasibility of pretreatment of all DASRI* plastic waste by 2030. - Formalise disruptive production projects concerning the environment by 2030 (proof of concept).

CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES

Environmental challenges are among the most pressing risks to global health today.
They aggravate many diseases, compromise the resilience of healthcare systems and increase pressure on health infrastructures.
Health and the environment are inextricably linked.Outdoor and indoor air quality, water quality, diet, exposure to chemicals, etc. are all environmental factors that play a decisive role in the onset and deterioration of multifactorial pathologies such as cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and obesity, to name just a few.
The resilience of health systems is also impacted by climate change, which significantly increases health risks, particularly for vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and people with existing health problems1. The capacity of health systems must be increased to both preserve and improve the health of populations faced with climate instability and change.

  • 8% of France’s carbon footprintcomes from the healthcare sector

  • 25% of chronic diseases are environmentally related

  • 29 %of sector’s emissions are linked to purchases of drugs

  • 6,7 M of premature deaths per year are caused by air pollution

  • 23% of deathsworldwide are linked to environmental factors

Find out more about the other pillars of our CSR Strategy:

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