Planning for the Future: a Corperate Example

     As the world's larges chemical company, Dow has launched its 2025 sustainability goals to help redefine the role of business in society. Since 2006, Dow has issued sustainability reports on both a quarterly and annual basis. Their 2025 sustainability goals are a continuation of their 2015 sustainability goals. The company claims that is setting "Bold and aggressive sustainability targets designed to develop breakthrough product innovations, positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, and deliver $1 billion in cost savings or new cash flow for the company by valuing nature in business decisions."

Its seven 2025 Sustainability Goals are as follows:

#1-Leading the Blueprint-Dow will engage in 100 significant dialogues across the public and private sector and establish 10 new collaborations considering world progress towards sustainability and emerging challenges.

#2-Delivering Breakthrough Innovations-Dow's product portfolio will have a six-fold net positive impact on sustainable development. Their products will offset three times more CO2 than they emit throughout their life cycle and save three times more energy than they use throughout their life cycle.

#3-Advancing a Circular Economy-By 2025, Dow will have delivered six major products that facilitate the world's transition to a circular economy, where waste is designed into new products and services.

#4-Valuing Nature-Dow will generate $1 billion by 2025 in the form of cost savings or new cash flow as measured by net present value, a measure of future cash flows discounted to the present day.

#5-Increasing Confidence in Chemical Technology- Dow will work with non-profit, business and government partners to develop new, cutting-edge predictive modeling capabilities and integrate them into 100 percent of their new product assessments.

#6-Engaging Employees for Impact-Dow employees will give 600,000 hours to support students in STEM education and Dow volunteers will complete 700 sustainability projects around the world be 2025.

#7-World-Leading Operations Performance-By 2025, Dow will reduce its freshwater intake intensity at key water stressed sites and its waste intensity footprint by 20 percent. It will also obtain 400 megawatts of its power demand from renewable sources and strive to eliminate unplanned safey events.

http://www.dow.com/en-us/science-and-sustainability/sustainability-reporting?