Like most manufacturing sectors, the pharmaceutical industry has a sizeable carbon footprint to tackle if the world is going to make meaningful steps in battling climate change.
In the pharmaceutical industry, one big issue is how many drugs are manufactured using chemical precursors derived from crude oil. That includes basic over-the-counter painkillers like paracetamol and ibuprofen, which are produced in hundreds of thousands of tonnes and consumed by millions of people every year.
