In became the first-ever Johnson & Johnson site to be externally certified as achieving carbon (CO2)-neutral status for all energy sources across manufacturing, warehousing, and R&D facilities.33 This milestone is a result of successful collaboration between multiple functions across the enterprise, and was achieved through a number of strategic decisions made over the last seven years: significant reduction of energy through efficiency investments and projects; strategic energy supplier partnerships for sustainable, certified sources of electricity, district heating and cooling, and biogas; replacement of natural gas with district heating as far as possible; and replacement of the remainder of natural gas with a financially competitive biogas alternative.