WASHINGTON — Carrier Corporation and its parent company, United Technologies Corp. (UTC), announced that UTC has surpassed its 25 percent energy and water usage reduction goals four years ahead of schedule and is increasing them to 40 percent. The companies also announced that UTC had joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leaders program, a voluntary industry-government partnership, which identifies manufacturers that are leaders in adopting goals and strategies for curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1997, UTC has lowered its greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent.
Carrier and UTC made their announcement here at the Earth Technologies Forum, an international conference focused on climate change and ozone protection.