Sustainability Goals and Highlights

 

We are accelerating our progress and expanding our positive impact on the world around us. 


Meaningful Goals

Our goals address global issues of critical importance, including doing our part to address climate change by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy and minimizing our waste.


2030 Environmental Footprint Goals

  • Reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 30%
  • Increase electricity from renewable resources to 50% of total usage
  • Reduce waste disposal intensity by 25%



2025 At a Glance


Product Blueprint Highlights

  • Earned ~30% of Net sales from products with third-party, sustainability-related certifications or declarations
  • Transformed our life cycle assessment (LCA) process through automation
  • Supported the continued expansion of PaintCare, which now maintains drop-off sites in 11 states and the District of Columbia, with approximately 70 percent of Sherwin-Williams paint stores in these jurisdictions hosting PaintCare sites

Environmental Footprint Highlights

  • Increased renewable energy to ~38% and engaged new contracts that will lead to further increases in the future
  • Reduced absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 23% since our 2019 baseline
  • Assessed decarbonization commitments of largest suppliers by spend, with 76% having made commitments to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions

 

 

 

 

Social Imprint Highlights

  • Achieved zero recordable injuries at more than 4,700 sites
  • Attained a strong 76% engagement score on our global employee engagement survey, which informs action planning to support the employee experience
  • Supported more than 1,400 nonprofit organizations through employee giving and volunteerism

 

 

 

 

 




CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING AND OTHER INFORMATION

 

Our sustainability-related goals and targets, underlying estimates, assumptions, and data, our strategies, plans, and objectives, and other forward-looking statements made available on or through our website are based upon current expectations, predictions, estimates, assumptions, and beliefs concerning future events and conditions at the time of release or publication, and are necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the control of the Company, that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements and from our historical results, performance, and experience. In addition, historical, current and forward-looking information made available on or through our website may be based on standards, methodologies, and practices for measuring progress that are still developing, internal controls and processes that continue to evolve, and assumptions that are subject to change. Accordingly, historical, current and forward-looking information, including goals and targets, and underlying estimates, assumptions, and data, may be subject to modification in future disclosures due to such developing standards, methodologies, practices, controls and processes; general business and economic changes; and unknown events and circumstances. Readers and viewers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information.

 

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