3 Trends I’m Watching in Environment and Sustainability

One thing I wish everyone would do to help the environment, is to just think about the choices they make and things they consume before they use them.
My name is Linda Caramichael. My job is Senior Director and Global Head of Environment and Sustainability for Teva Pharmaceuticals.
Three trends that I'm really interested in right now are around product stewardship, so looking at individual product data; partnerships – getting it done together, and kind of the intersection of climate change and nature loss and the impact on human health.
So the first trend is really around the move from very macro level, operation level environmental focus to product specific – and we call that product stewardship. So, many companies, Teva included have set ambitious targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in our operations. But now we're seeing a new focus, an evolving focus, around looking at individual products that we make. So looking at an end-to-end assessment at the devices, at the medicines and seeing where along what we call the lifecycle of that product, that we can reduce not only our emissions, but use less natural resources and generate less waste.
I'm really excited about using partnerships. There's a concept of getting it done together. We're part of this larger ecosystem, of companies and we're all living on this planet together. And we're all realizing that in order to really make change we need to work together.
I'll give you an example. Teva has one of the most complex supply chains in the pharmaceutical industry. We're looking into in the pharmaceutical industry, a collaboration to help with renewable electricity. So working together ourselves and with our supply chain – to enable our suppliers to source renewable electricity, to enable us to source renewable electricity.
The third trend that I'm following is the intersection of climate change and nature or biodiversity loss and human health. So the World Health Organization has said that climate change is the single biggest threat to humanity. Unfortunately, it's felt disproportionately by the most vulnerable and disadvantage populations.
We make medicines that improve patients' lives. And we're really reimaging new ways to provide medicines to those most in need. It's that intersection, that culmination of trying and doing our best to protect the planet, to minimize climate change, to help nature and to positively impact human health that brings it all together.