Baxter's Sustainability Priorities and Goals
Although committed to addressing a broad range of sustainability issues, Baxter recognizes the importance of having clear priorities to focus its efforts and direct its initiatives.
In 2007, the company’s executive-level Sustainability Steering Committee defined nine priorities that fall into three broad categories: Our People, Our Operations and Products, and Our World. These priorities reflect issues of key concern to Baxter and its stakeholders and areas where the company is uniquely positioned to have a positive impact. They are designed to help address key global sustainability issues such as corruption, global warming, preservation of natural resources, unequal access to healthcare, inadequate education and others. In developing the priorities, the committee considered input from a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Since then, Baxter has established longer-term performance goals for each priority to demonstrate the company’s commitment, motivate continual improvement and help stakeholders assess performance. The company’s chief executive officer and its Operations Committee endorse these priorities and goals. This framework will remain central to the company’s sustainability efforts, and the company looks forward to reporting ongoing progress in the future.
This table outlines Baxter’s sustainability priorities and goals, and links to progress updates for each priority.
