Sustainability
A roadmap for sustainable progress
Doing our part to create a more sustainable world
Our purpose — to empower the world with the essential innovations to thrive —?is our commitment to society. We will use our passion and proven expertise in science and innovation to create sustainable solutions for the complex challenges facing our world.
Our sustainability framework has three interconnected strategic focus areas: Innovations to Thrive, Sustainable Operations, and People and Well-being.
Strong performance across all three dimensions will enable us to boldly embrace our renewed purpose and maximize the impact DuPont science can bring to the world.
We worked with customers, suppliers, NGOs and business partners to identify the sustainability issues that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver business value, increase resiliency across our value chains, and enable people and societies to thrive.
These key issues will be addressed through the three dimensions of our sustainability strategy: innovation, operational excellence, community impact and new collaborations with our business partners.
Sustainable Innovation
Innovation that delivers on price and performance, is safer for people and planet and positively contributes to advancing global environmental and social challenges
Sustainable Innovation
Climate Change
Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, improving our energy management processes and increasing our use of renewable energy
Climate Change
Product Safety & Transparency
Managing and disclosing the health, safety and environmental impacts of products for all lifecycle stages
Product Safety & Transparency
Water Stewardship
Understanding and managing water quality and scarcity issues across our global sites
Water Stewardship
Circular Economy
Redesigning, recycling, reusing and remanufacturing products, components and raw materials to keep them at their highest value use for as long as possible?
Circular Economy
Health, safety, and well-being
Safeguarding and protecting our employees and communities by promoting health, safety and wellness
Health, safety, and well-being
We use the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as a guiding set of principles to understand what the world needs action on, now.?
As our business and product portfolio evolves, these global goals will continue to be used as a source of worldwide consensus on sustainability priorities for our scientists and engineers to work toward innovative solutions.?
Our Sustainability Roadmap: A Message from Alexa Dembek, Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer
Right now, we're creating sustainable solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
We're working with our customers to tackle global challenges? and bring life-enhancing solutions to market.
Delivering end-to-end world-class performance in safety, resource efficiency and environmental protection.
Operating sustainably goes beyond optimizing our own footprint. We partner with suppliers, customers and other businesses to reduce environmental impacts across the value chain.
Enabling the health and well-being of people and communities and advance diversity and inclusion in our workforce and beyond.
Our employees, our communities, and people everywhere deserve to be healthy and safe. We work to make sure both our presence and our products create a positive impact in the lives of people everywhere.
Sustainability Reporting
Transparency is a vital component of our corporate sustainability strategy. ?Each year, we submit our climate and water performance to the CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), and make available other documents and certificates that our stakeholders may find useful.
Position Statements
Position statements represent DuPont’s informed views and opinions on industry-related issues. They cover a range of topics that reinforce our commitment to sustainable growth and are important to stakeholders.
DuPont in the News: Sustainability Stories
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences Orients Innovation Around SDGs
The 50 top leaders at DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences have identified seven central goals and two focus areas within the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In autumn, the company will host a workshop presenting tools for others with the same ambitions.
Renault Sport Racing and DuPont Announce Strategic Partnership
Renault Sport Racing and DuPont today announced a multi-year strategic technical partnership to deliver new technology to help advance Formula 1 and other racing programs. Through a shared vision to address unique challenges in the rapidly changing mainstream automotive industry, Renault Sport Racing and DuPont will also explore opportunities to co-innovate and accelerate development of new technology for future consumer and road car applications.
Now Even Expectant Moms Can Know Their Baby Is Okay
Expectant mothers can wake up to a wellness report of their unborn child and be notified if fetal heartbeat and movement are within acceptable ranges with the new Owlet Band, winner of two CES awards in the categories of Wearable Technology and Tech to Change the World. Specialized sensors housed in a fabric band that sits around the mother's abdomen track fetal heart rate and kick count, sending real-time data to a smartphone.?
Gonvarri and DuPont Rely on Circular Economy Principles to Sign an Innovative Partnership
The agreement, supported by an initial investment of more than one million euros mainly made by DuPont, exemplifies the concept of circular economy and will lead to significant reductions in energy, water and transport consumption for both companies.