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At our headquarters in Creve Coeur, Missouri, we are purchasing
10 percent of our total energy consumption from renewable sources through
the Ameren Pure Power initiative.27
In addition to making products that help reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment, we are also committed to reducing the direct impacts of our operations.
Three Monsanto facilities (in Augusta, Georgia, in Luling, Louisiana, and in Muscatine, Iowa) have been recognized as top-performing facilities by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Performance Track program. This program recognizes facilities that demonstrate sustained environmental compliance, commit themselves to continued measurable environmental improvements, and actively participate in community outreach.
We measure the effects of our chemical operations through recognized reporting procedures. The eco-efficiency reporting method used on the following pages was developed in cooperation with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The system permits year-to-year comparisons of new data to baseline data from calendar year 1990. Product data (for example, energy use and material consumption) are recorded by total amounts and by environmental influence per unit of output. For purposes of comparison with prior years, a constant product mix based on Monsanto’s technical-grade chemical production in calendar year 2006 is used. That adjusts previous-year data so that changes in product mixes do not influence the comparability of the year-to-year eco-efficiency indicators. Ozone depleting substances are not graphed, because the total is too small to be statistically significant.
This year, we have included additional performance indicators developed by the Global Reporting Initiative, a stakeholder network that developed principles and indicators that organizations can use to measure and report economic, environmental, and social performance. The following environmental indicators are for our 2006 global chemical operations.
