Since May 2007, Boeing:
- Stood up an expanded Environment, Health and Safety organization with a mandate for strategic direction and guidance on the environment and with leadership direction from the most senior level in the company.
- Committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at our facilities and joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program.
- Set clear targets for environmental improvement at our facilities and for our commercial airplane products, while also committing to improving how we report our environmental progress and impact.
- Brought our industry together to focus on working together on real improvement opportunities.
- Demonstrated real-world solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in commercial aviation using alternate energy sources for airplanes and improved transportation management systems.
- Committed to expand certification to the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard to all our major manufacturing sites by the end of 2008.