P&G announce Environmentally Sustainable Goals for 2030
Today, The Proctor & Gamble (P&G) have become the latest large multinational company to announce new environmentally sustainable goals. This comes after McDonald’s released their intentions to remove straws from their restaurants last week.
After announcing that they have already reached many of its 2020 environmental sustainability goals, they have now established new, broad-reaching goals for 2030, called “Ambition 2030, aiming to enable and inspire positive impact on the environment and society while creating value for the Company and consumers. P&G’s CEO David Taylor said: “We believe P&G can be a force for good and a force for growth, and we are taking a more deliberate approach to delighting consumers while enabling responsible consumption.
“Consumers expect the brands they trust to deliver superior performance and to also help solve some of the most complex challenges facing our world. Our global reach, our understanding of the five billion consumers we serve and our innovation capabilities give us a unique ability to make a positive difference.”
P&G’s “Ambition 2030” goals include:
Brands: P&G’s 20 leadership brands including Always, Ariel, Dawn, Fairy, Febreze, Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Pampers, and Tide will enable and inspire responsible consumption through packaging that is 100% recyclable or reusable, launching more sustainable innovations, and building trust through transparency and sharing our safety science.
Supply Chain: P&G manufacturing sites will cut greenhouse gas emissions in half, and will purchase enough renewable electricity to power 100% of our plants. The Company will also source at least 5 billion liters of water from circular sources.
Society: P&G will continue to create transformative partnerships that enable people, the planet and our business to thrive, including those that stem the flow of plastic into the world’s ocean, protect and enhance forests, expand recycling solutions for absorbent hygiene products, and protect water in priority basins around the world.
Employees: P&G will engage, equip and reward employees for building sustainability thinking and practices into their everyday work. We will reward progress and integrate recognition into performance assessments. “Building on our progress to date, our 2030 goals seek to address two of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges: finite resources and growing consumption,” said Virginie Helias, VP of Global Sustainability. “We know P&G alone does not have