Margo Mosher, global head of sustainability for Mars Veterinary Health, discussed the company’s renewable energy initiatives such as wind farming to power clinics around the world, an interview with dvm360. The interview was recorded at the North American Veterinary Community’s 2025 Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX) in Orlando, Florida, where Mars Veterinary Health presented an educational session, “How to Practice Sustainable Veterinary Medicine,” that addressed the company’s sustainability initiatives such as renewable energy and efforts made to reduce blood banking waste.

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The following is a transcript of the video:

Margo Mosher: One of our main sustainability initiatives has been focused on climate change, given it’s an urgent, pressing environmental and social issue, and one of our biggest impact areas is the electricity that we use in our clinics around the world. And so a big focus early on in our sustainability journey was to find ways to source renewable electricity. So we’re really proud that in 2021, as part of Mars Incorporated, we signed on to a power purchase agreement to source and really fund the building of a large wind farm in Ford Ridge, Illinois, in the US. And as part of that, we therefore have been able to source renewable electricity for our 2000 pet hospitals across the US, and that’s including Banfield, Blue Pearl and VCA [networks]. They are all now sourcing clean renewable electricity, and that’s helped to reduce a good portion of our greenhouse gas emissions. And then we’re also really excited that we’ve brought online all of our Linnaeus clinics in the UK with renewable electricity as well.

Our last bit for this year is focusing on sourcing renewables for all of our AniCura hospitals across Europe. And then we’ll have achieved the goal that we had set, which was sourcing renewables for all of our clinics across Europe, UK and the US, by the end of 2025. This has been a really important part of our sustainability journey and our climate change initiatives. And we’re also really happy to be part of Mars Incorporated who has a ambitious target related to climate change, achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and so our renewable electricity for our pet hospitals has really helped us be part of that and contribute to that work.