Pharmaceuticals

The pharmaceuticals industry (pharma) is central to the global healthcare system, providing medicines and vaccines to treat and prevent human and animal diseases worldwide.

As the world grapples with increasing public health challenges, the pharma sector develops and distributes products to improve human health and quality of life in all therapeutic areas. However, the industry also faces growing expectations to strengthen environmental performance across its operations and value chain. From drug manufacturing to packaging waste and disposal of unused medications, the sector has considerable opportunities to address its environmental impacts.


As concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss, water and plastics pollution continue to grow, sustainability has become a strategic priority for pharmaceutical companies.


We understand pharmaceutical industry challenges

With every challenge comes opportunity. We understand the need to continue providing the best treatments to patients while prioritizing environmental sustainability and resiliency in the supply chain. The industry has an opportunity to address key challenges across the value chain while maintaining operational excellence.

The levers for sustainable transformation are many, and now is the time to act.

Circular economy
The pharma industry relies heavily on various resources and materials, such as chemicals, water and packaging materials that contribute to pollution. Companies need to adopt circular economy practices both in their manufacturing processes and throughout their product life cycles to reduce resource consumption, emissions and waste.

Biodiversity loss
Pharmaceutical companies depend significantly on natural resources for new drug development and production. Companies must better understand their impacts and dependencies on ecosystems to manage risks related to biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.

Supply chain management
The vulnerabilities of global pharmaceutical supply chains highlight the need for companies to build supply chain resilience and improve environmental performance across supplier networks.

Climate change
As one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the healthcare sector, pharma companies face increasing pressure to reduce both direct and indirect emissions across their value chains.

Engaging stakeholders
The use phase of medicine is critical for healthcare. Companies must engage with downstream stakeholders to ensure the optimal impact of upstream actions to reduce their environmental impact.

Ecodesign
Product development is long, costly and highly regulated. At the same time, pharma companies rely on innovation to provide the best medicines to patients. Utilizing ecodesign practices, the industry can reduce the environmental impact of products and packaging.

Digital enablement
As the pharma and healthcare industry embraces sustainable practices along the value chain, requirements for reliable data and transparency are rapidly increasing. Key players need to develop and integrate technology solutions that will help measure, track and report sustainability performance at scale. Managing data flows is becoming pivotal to ensure seamless integration, ethical practices and consistency.

Our Approach in Action

For over a decade, leading pharmaceutical companies have partnered with Quantis to connect sustainability ambition to real business outcomes.

We work together to set priorities, deploy effective and meaningful strategies, and measure and monitor progress.

Ready to align sustainability with business performance?

Quantis pharmaceuticals experts can help you to:

  • Develop integrated, science-informed strategies and roadmaps beyond climate

    Focusing solely on carbon can overlook material risks and opportunities across water, biodiversity, land use and plastics. We work with you to assess these interconnected issues, define clear priorities and build structured roadmaps that align environmental considerations with product strategy, sourcing decisions and growth plans.

  • Accelerate and institutionalize sustainable innovation

    By collaborating with clients to integrate ecodesign and circular design principles into products and packaging, we help respond to growing consumer demand for transparency while reducing environmental impact across the value chain.

  • Activate your supply chain

    We support your teams in driving measurable change across suppliers and value chains, clarifying expectations, aligning incentives and focusing effort where it will have the greatest impact. By strengthening collaboration and accountability across upstream partners, we help translate strategy into practical results

Ready to align sustainability with business performance?

Quantis experts

    • Italy

    Marco Occhipinti

    Sustainability Principal
    • France

    Emmanuel Hembert

    Global Cosmetics, Personal Care & Pharma Lead
    • France

    Rishen Vithilingum

    Branch Pharmaceutical Lead