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Natural resources are essential to produce our medicines and operate our sites. We are committed to:

Reducing our impact on the planet through the efficient, circular use of water and other natural resources across the value chain to ensure responsible sourcing, consumption, production and disposal
Protecting and restoring ecosystems to improve health outcomes and tackle environmental drivers of disease, such as water and air quality, through our focus on water stewardship and biodiversity

We are committed to reducing our impact on the planet and investing in nature and biodiversity to benefit planetary and societal health. We recognise that adopting circular business approaches and implementing efficient processes to develop and produce our medicines is key to reducing natural resources used in our value chains.

We aim to integrate a circular economy approach across our value chain. We are leveraging our experience with Lean manufacturing, which includes tools to enhance efficiency and eliminate waste, to build a framework for employees to identify and implement ideas that contribute to our environmental targets.

Moving beyond efficiency, within our direct operations, we are working in collaboration with key stakeholders to make positive contributions to nature and local communities where we operate while mitigating risks from a changing climate through Nature-based Solutions.

Through our partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Sweden, we are adopting water stewardship practices in alignment with the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard and setting contextual targets at high-risk sites within our network. More detail on our approach to Water Stewardship can be found in our Position Statement.

Learn more about our approach to Water Stewardship here

We are also furthering our commitment to assess and minimise environmental impacts from our supply chain. While making progress on our existing responsible sourcing targets, including sustainably sourced paper-based packaging and action plans for identified key raw materials, we are building a risk-based approach to assess additional new and existing materials’ impacts and dependencies on nature. This will help prepare us for future reporting to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework as it is further developed. More detail on our approach to Biodiversity can be found in our Position Statement.

Circularity at our Sweden sites

Learn more in our Sustainability Report and Sustainability Data Summary on our Resources page

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