Protecting our planet
Do you care about the planet? Are you driven to help solve its problems? All of our products, brands and services look to benefit People, Planet and Profit. And what could be more important than that?
Look at what we’re doing in engineering plastics. Our materials are helping make cars stronger and more durable. They also make them lighter, which means lower CO2 emissions because lighter vehicles need less fuel.
Or take nutrition, where we’re creating increasingly bio-friendly feed for livestock so that whatever goes into the animal produces fewer methane gases and less ammonia when it comes out. We call it ‘taking the bad out of the good’.
Sustainability-based strategy
The need to preserve our planet is ingrained into everyone who works at DSM.
First, we’ve made sustainability the key pillar in our strategy – we don’t just want to comply, we want to be at the very forefront. To make that happen, DSM has made individual sustainability targets part of people’s compensation packages – from our senior executives on down.
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
We also have the track record to back up our words. We were named #1 in our sector in the Dow Jones World Sustainability Index in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011. And we were among the leaders in 2007 and 2008.
By 2015, more than 80% of our innovation pipeline should be ECO+ products (products that, when considered over their whole life cycle, offer clear ecological benefits compared to the mainstream solutions they compete with). Currently, over a third of our running businesses are ECO+, and we’re aiming to increase this towards 50% within a few years. We’re also committed to cutting our energy consumption by 20% between 2008 and 2020, and to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 3.5% a year over the next 3 to 5 years.
| Sustainability aspirations 2011-2015 | |
|---|---|
| ECO+ (innovation): | ~ 80% of pipeline is ECO+ |
| ECO+ (running business): | from ~ 34% towards 50% |
| Energy efficiency: | ~ 20% savings from 2008 till 2020 |
| Greenhouse Gas emissions: | ~ 3.5% reduction per year (over 3-5 years) |
| Engagement survey: | towards High Performance Norm |
| Diversity & People+: | to be defined in 2011 |
