Strategy & Approach - Altria

As the parent of companies that depend on our planet’s natural resources, we have set a goal to reduce the environmental impact of our businesses and to promote the sustainability of the natural resources on which they depend.


Each of our operating companies has adopted environmental policies that provide specific environmental guidance for employees. These policies address topics including air emissions; environmental assessment; hazardous materials; and waste, wastewater and storm water management.

The environmental management framework within the Altria family of companies includes:

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Environmental Goals

We have measured our tobacco companies’ progress against the following 2013 goal targets using 2008 as baseline:


Climate Change

Altria is committed to reducing the environmental impact of its businesses. Reducing carbon emissions is one way to do so. Our companies rely on agricultural products and we are keenly aware of the balance of nature and how climate change could alter that balance.

As part of this effort, Altria’s companies are:

  • Increasing energy efficiency measures throughout their facilities;
  • Evaluating alternate forms of energy;
  • Establishing standards for building construction and renovation;
  • Working with suppliers and distributors to understand carbon impacts and explore ways to be more efficient and less carbon intensive; and
  • Working with universities to find more efficient ways to cure tobacco.

 

Altria’s tobacco companies are measuring their progress toward a goal of reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 7.5 percent by 2013, using 2008 as a baseline, and we share our progress publicly as one measure of our business performance.


View Altria’s submissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project since 2007.