Novozymes is awarded “The Best Environmental Performance Award” in 2014 Deloitte China Sustainability Awards and it is a high recognition of Novozymes sustainability practices in China for environmental excellence from the general public and international authoritative third party.

SHANGHAI, CHINA – February 27, 2014 – Novozymes is awarded “The Best Environmental Performance Award” in 2014 Deloitte China Sustainability Awardss which is the first year of the sustainability awards supported by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the aim to encourage and reward best-practice corporate sustainability of Novozymes and bring the experience and expertise we have gained in developed markets to China while also being ready to find innovative solutions to tackle China specific sustainability challenges.

“Sustainability is taking up a larger and larger piece of China’s agenda, there is a growing demand to develop sound sustainability strategies for China that can meet China’s specific needs. We in China are demonstrating sustainable practices which are strategic in nature and which form our daily business operations,” says Michael Fredskov Christiansen, Asia Regional President at Novozymes. “In the future, we will further strengthen the sustainability linkage with the business to drive more innovation and business development by engaging with local stakeholders to tackle with the sustainability challenges in China.”

The 2014 Deloitte China Sustainability Awards attracts a lot of companies involved in according to its authoritative and non-commercial features. The Sustainability Awards consist of five standard awards and one annual theme award (Water Stewardship Award in 2014). Novozymes is awarded “The Best Environmental Performance award” by the 'best in class' performance within Novozymes and also across relevant environmental indicators affecting key stakeholders. The other winning companies of 2014 Deloitte China Sustainability include: BASF, Panasonic, H&M, Schneider Electric, Cocacola and SWIRE.

Novozymes is industry leader of the biotechnology sector in the Dow Jones World and STOXX Sustainability Indexes. Novozymes has achieved the SAM Gold Class rating in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2013, the worldwide application of Novozymes’ products helped our customers reduce their CO2 emissions by an estimated 52 million tons, with an ambition to enable a 75 million ton reduction in CO2 emissions in 2015.