As a health care company, Johnson & Johnson understands that climate change can negatively affect human health. We have taken sustained, long term action to address our greenhouse gas emissions and we are encouraging our supply chain to do the same. We also support responsible climate and energy policy.
Our Climate Friendly Energy Policy underscores our commitment to reduce facility and transportation related emissions, and we have set goals to encourage progress. We have also established a substantial fund for energy and greenhouse gas reduction projects across the Company.
Johnson & Johnson has taken multiple steps to reduce its energy footprint. In 2012, we revised our Climate Friendly Energy Policy [PDF], acknowledging that in the field of climate science, there is consensus that human activity is causing climate change and that a warming climate has the significant potential to impair human health. In the policy, Johnson & Johnson states the belief that business has a responsibility to conserve energy and to help abate climate change, and that this belief reaffirms our commitment to improving our energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions. Johnson & Johnson also has a policy mandating that all new building construction projects be certified to the widely used Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building standard, or its equivalent. Public goals have been set to reduce the CO2 emissions from our facilities and to increase the amount of on-site clean or renewable energy capacity. We also have a goal to improve the energy efficiency of our sales fleet. We continue to follow The Greenhouse Gas Protocol issued by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute.
We exceeded our Healthy Planet 2010 climate change goal to reduce our baseline 1990 CO2 emission levels by seven percent in absolute terms by 2010, achieving a 23 percent absolute reduction at the end of 2010. By 2020, we seek to achieve a further 20 percent absolute reduction from our 2010 baseline, without the use of voluntary offsets.