| Environmental
Environmental
Progress
UTC is committed to continual improvement of EH&S performance.
In 2004 we again exceeded our annual goals for all of our major
environmental metrics, which are all normalized for revenue. Air
emissions were down 27 percent compared to 2003, and we have achieved
a 58 percent reduction since 1999. Both recycled and non-recycled
waste decreased in 2004: 11 percent less recycled waste than in
2003 and 25 percent less non-recycled. Both categories of solid
waste are on pace to meet our 2006 reduction goals.
Our energy and water use decreased significantly last year. Our
total energy use per dollar of revenue was down 9 percent compared
to 2003 and water use per dollar of revenue declined by 19 percent.
In both categories we have already exceeded our original goals
set in 1997.
Improving Product Performance
The use of many of our products contributes to greenhouse gas
emissions, but through UTC’s design for environment, health and
safety programs we are exploring ways to increase efficiency and
reduce emissions. A recent success of these programs is the Hamilton
Sundstrand systems in the new Boeing 787, which contribute to
this aircraft’s 20 percent fuel efficiency gain over current-generation
equipment. Carrier is leading the air conditioning industry in
meeting the new increase in U.S. residential energy efficiency
standards. As a result, Carrier residential air conditioning systems
shipped in the United States after January 2006 will be 30 percent
more energy efficient than today’s federal standard.
Awarding Outstanding Performance
In 1995 UTC established the Robert F. Daniell Award to recognize
outstanding environment, health and safety performance within
our company. The most recent winner, announced in 2004, is Otis
India for a hundredfold EH&S performance improvement over
10 years.
Otis India’s achievements included a reduction
in accidents from 359 in 1993 to 3 in 2003, no hazardous waste
production since 2001, and a significant reduction in waste overall.
Otis India also created “My Safety,” an education
program for employees and their families. The program has helped
teach employees to recognize job safety as fundamental to their
well-being and to the welfare of their families.
Achieving Competitive Excellence
The efficiency of our operations and the quality of our products
have a direct impact on our environmental performance. Achieving
Competitive Excellence (ACE) is UTC’s proprietary internal discipline
of continuous operational scrutiny, and an important resource
for environment, health and safety improvement. It simplifies
procedure, magnifies efficiency and replaces the limits of quality
control with the discipline of quality creation. ACE ensures world-class
quality in products and processes and relentlessly focuses on
increasing efficiency and reducing waste, helping to support our
environmental commitments as well as sustaining our performance
model. ACE implementation across the world involves all employees
and touches all of our manufacturing, business and supporting
processes that deliver customer value.
Nonprofit
Partnerships
UTC is a founding member of the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change and the U.S. Green Building Council. We also
recently joined the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development. In 2004, Global Green USA — an affiliate of the
Green Cross environmental organization founded by President
Mikhail Gorbachev — awarded us the Corporate Design Award
for our Sustainable Cities environmental grant and volunteer
effort, which is representative of our commitment to the highest
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