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2025 sustainability goals
Sustainability goals
Dow has been committed to its sustainability goals since 1995, in accordance with the vision of its founder,
Herbert Henry Dow. While supporting our customers with quality products, we are also contributing to create
a better environment and society through our expertise in materials science and collaboration with partners.
Dow has been applying a business decision process that values nature since our beginning. We also
support our customers, partners, and stakeholders in achieving their own sustainability goals. In 2020,
Dow announced a set of new targets building on our existing sustainability goals, to provide greater clarity
around solving important sustainability issues.
Dow’s sustainability goals span 30 years, with clear ten-year benchmarks:
2025 sustainability goals
Dow's thought
leadership and actions
2015 sustainability goals
Product solutions
to world challenges
Dow's blueprint
2005 EH&S goals
Journey to EH&S
excellence
Dow's handprint
Dow's footdprint and
EH&S culture
1995 2005 2015 2025
2005 ● Spanning 1995 to 2005
EH&S goals
● Footprint goals: promote safety and better environments at Dow's manufacturing
plants.
● Focus on efficient production and reduce unnecessary use of resources, waste,
and environmental safety risks.
2015 ● 2015’s goal is to continue improving on existing sustainability goals at Dow's plants.
sustainability
● Handprint goals: deliver sustainability to customers and partners.
goals
● Focus on product design and the efficiency of manufacturing processes, as well
as offer products that are environmentally friendly and with advanced innovations
for customers.
2025 ● Our 2025 targets are the third phase and currently in-process.
sustainability ● Blueprint goals: promote sustainability standards and practices by maintaining
goals -
the blueprint them across different sectors--from use of raw materials to handling processes--
goals once products are being used by consumers.
● Collaborate with various organizations to create a template and a process for solving
the world's problems with focuses on climate change and marine plastic waste.
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