P&G 2008 Sustainability Report - P&G Report Card: Carbon Footprint

This is the first year we have reported results for these goals.

Goal: Develop and market at least $20 billion in cumulative sales of “sustainable innovation products,” which are products with a significantly reduced (>10%) environmental footprint versus previous or alternative products.⁽¹⁾

Progress (in billions of U.S. dollars)	Cumulative Sales since July 2007
Cumulative sales of sustainable innovation products	$2.05

Goal: Deliver an additional 10% reduction (per unit production) in CO₂ emissions, energy consumption, water consumption and disposed waste from P&G plants, leading to a total reduction over the decade of at least 40%.

Progress (percent reduction per unit production)	Since July 2007	Since July 2002
Energy Usage	-6%	-46%
CO₂ Emissions	-8%	-52%
Waste Disposal	-21%	-50%
Water Usage	-7%	-51%

Goal: Enable 250 million children to Live, Learn and Thrive⁽²⁾. Prevent 80 million days of disease and save 10,000 lives by delivering 2 billion liters of clean water in our Children’s Safe Drinking Water program.⁽³⁾

Live, Learn and Thrive
Progress	Since July 2007
Number of Children Reached	60 million
Children’s Safe Drinking Water
Liters of Clean Water Delivered	430 million
Days of Disease Prevented	18 million
Lives Saved	2,442

(1): Sustainable Innovation Products are included if they have launched in market since July 1, 2007, and have a significant (>10%) reduction in environmental footprint that is achieved through innovation impacting one or more of the following indicators without negatively impacting the overall sustainability profile of the product: A. Energy, B. Water, C. Transportation, D. Amount of material used in packaging or products, E. Substitution of non-renewable energy or materials with renewable sources.
(2): Live, Learn and Thrive (LLT) is P&G’s global cause that focuses our social investments on efforts that improve the lives of children in need ages 0–13.
(3): Within Live, Learn and Thrive, our signature program is Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW). Methodology for calculating diarrheal days and mortality was developed with Population Services International and Aquaya Institute. Details are provided at www.pg.com/sustainability.

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