Environmental issues are increasingly shaping the context of our business. The cost and availability of water and energy; the impacts of agricultural production on land, biodiversity and water quality; and rising concerns about climate change all have implications for operations throughout our value chain. For Kellogg to be the food company of choice, we must make responsible choices relating to these and other environmental issues. Toward that end, we are seeking to foster an environmental sustainability culture within our company – to embed sustainability within our processes, understand the life-cycle impacts of our products and develop broad-based internal participation in our environmental improvement efforts.

A full discussion of our performance and progress in this area is detailed in the Environment section of the full report.

We have implemented initiatives aimed at reducing our environmental impacts in the areas deemed most important in our materiality analysis – energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water use, waste and packaging. We recently updated and strengthened our Global Environmental Policy, set ambitious and specific environmental goals, and reconfigured our management structure to best achieve these goals. We are also working with key external stakeholders – including industry associations, nonprofit organizations and government agencies – to further our achievement of these goals. With these steps, we have positioned ourselves to make significant progress in the coming years.

*Does not include contract manufacturing partners’ facilities.