Sterling Joins the United Nations Global Compact

Sterling Pharma Solutions is pleased to announce that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact, a voluntary initiative for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices.

The UN Global Compact mobilises companies around the world to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, as well as taking action in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This further confirms Sterling’s commitment to sustainable business practices, and its willingness to continue being transparent with all its stakeholders, sharing actions and demonstrating progress on building a sustainable future for its business and society.

Brian Peutherer, Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety at Sterling, said: “The pharma industry as a whole has made huge progress over the last decade on developing more sustainable business practices, but we recognise that these changes need to start happening faster to truly have an impact on the challenges we face globally.

“At Sterling we have had a very practical commitment to sustainability for many years; the Bioplant at our UK headquarters was built some 35 years ago to support sustainable waste management from our manufacturing processes.  Since then we have continued to pioneer new ways of working and supported innovation in sustainability to reduce our impact, as illustrated by our commitment to upgrading the same bioplant with anaerobic digestion technology to produce biomethane.

“We share the values and principles of all those who have committed to play their part in the United National Global Compact, and we’re looking forward to working with our peers to challenge us all to take action, and importantly measure progress.  There is no reason why you can’t have a profitable business and contribute to real change.”

Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 20,000 companies based in over 160 countries, and more than 60 Global Compact Networks.