Mapping Our Impact

Learn more about our Company, brand projects and partnerships that are reducing our environmental footprint, conserving precious resources, and helping ensure a healthy planet for present and future generations. The interactive map below details our activities on how we are helping make our home better across forestry, plastic packaging, water and climate.

Keeping Forests as Forests – Now and for Generations to Come

Forests are critical to supporting life on earth and protecting them is essential to the people and wildlife that call them home. We are committed to zero deforestation in our supply chain. For example, we require our wood pulp in products be third-party certified - for every tree we use at least one is regrown. Learn more at pginvestor.com. We are helping protect and restore nature through partnerships and projects around the world and are committed to a regenerative approach. We are planting more than a million trees through partnerships to protect and restore forests that touch 35 countries and are committed to the long-term health of natural ecosystems that are essential to people, wildlife and the planet.
Click on any pin on the map above to learn more about our forestry efforts and programs.

Accelerating Packaging, Recycling, and Waste Management Solutions.

Plastic waste is a complex global challenge that requires a comprehensive, collaborative approach across the entire plastics lifecycle. We have already doubled our use of recycled resin over the past five years, redesigned our packaging to avoid more than 200,000 tons of plastic over the past decade, and are working toward 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2030. Learn more about our progress and commitments at pginvestor.com. See how and where we are working around the world to find new ways to reduce or reuse packaging, enable more recycling in homes and communities, and keep plastic waste out of nature. Click on any purple pin above to learn more.

Accelerating Action on Climate Change to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2040

Accelerating action on climate change is critical to ensuring a healthy planet for generations to come. P&G has set an ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 across its operations and supply chain, from raw material to retailer. P&G also shared a Climate Transition Action Plan to accelerate climate action across the entire lifecycle emissions of our products and packaging. P&G continues to make progress in reducing our operational emissions, leveraging our brands to help reduce energy use at home, and collaborating with our value chain partners to advance climate change progress. Below are a few of the initiatives P&G is leading to reduce our carbon footprint. You can also learn more at pginvestor.com.

Building a Water Positive Future Together

With growing urban populations, increasing demand on limited water supplies, and issues with water quality facing communities around the world, it is imperative that we work together to address these challenges. At P&G, we want to help build a water positive future that can sustain people and nature, now and for generations to come. Our strategy includes reducing water use in our manufacturing, responding to water challenges through innovation and partnerships, and supporting water restoration projects in 18 water-stressed areas around the world.

We’ve also added two 2030 goals to our comprehensive program including restoring more water than is consumed¹ at P&G manufacturing sites in 18 water-stressed areas around the world. And, in the high water-stressed metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Mexico City, we will restore more water than is consumed² when using P&G products. We will achieve these goals through partnerships with environmental organizations and restoration projects that improve, manage, and protect water resources.

Since 2010, we’ve reduced our manufacturing water, and sourced water from circular sources, and given more than a billion people access to water-efficient products through our brands. We’ve also helped provide 23 billion liters of water to people in more than 90 countries around the world through our Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program. To learn more about our strategy toward a water positive future and the progress we are making, visit pginvestor.com.

¹ Water that evaporates during the manufacturing of our products or is incorporated into the finished product manufactured at these sites.
² Water from household leaks and evaporation during the use of our products.

Malayan Tiger Program — Photo Courtesy of the WWF-Malaysia

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

On UN World Wildlife Day 2021, we announced the first of our first Palm Conserve and Protect Partnership. P&G sponsorship supports the work of WWF-Malaysia to protect Malayan tigers and landscapes in Central Forest Spine of Peninsular Malaysia. The focus is in four Forest Linkages in Belum Temengor, Sungai Yu and two forest linkages around the Cameron Highlands and applies to an integrated lens approach to environments, biodiversity, people and communities who rely on agriculture and palm.

ACTIONS

The program will focus on three key areas:
• Protect: Sponsorship of Tiger and Wildlife Patrols; Biodiversity and Habitat Field Assessment for Conservation Advocacy
• Restore: Rehabilitation of indigenous forest species with potential creation of transit forest linkages
• Produce: Utilize land use mapping and engagement with stakeholders including communities

Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) Certification Preference

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

FSC® is one of the world's most trusted forest certifications. P&G maintains a preference for FSC-certified fibers, however the availability of FSC-certified pulp is insufficient to meet the demands of our industry. Because of this, we have been working directly with our supply chain partners and NGOs to grow the supply of FSC certified materials and pulp. As a result of our efforts, P&G Family Care brands (tissue and towel products) are committed to sourcing 75% of its wood pulp from FSC by 2022 and have an ambition to source 100% FSC by 2030.

ACTIONS

P&G has partnered with FSC U.S. and FSC Canada on several projects to advance forestry certification. Our commitments include funding a pilot study to ensure the new FSC Canada Forest Management standard was feasible for pulp suppliers, a three-year project with FSC Canada to drive adoption of the new FSC Canada Forest Management standard, funding FSC Canada Caribou studies to build the science to better protect caribou, funding FSC U.S. consumer awareness campaigns, funding FSC U.S. and FSC Canada projects to understand the forest carbon benefits of FSC and partnering with FSC U.S. to engage FSC Group Certificate holders and help them grow their FSC Group Certificates acreage.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

P&G has leveraged innovation and sustained consumer education to help reduce the largest portion of our carbon footprint – the energy needed to heat water during product use. P&G brands Tide and Ariel have helped consumers increase their use of low-energy laundry cycles to avoid roughly 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. Tide and Ariel continue to drive greater use of cold water washing through new education campaigns to help avoid an additional 30 million tons of carbon emissions by 2030 – more than ten times that of P&G’s yearly global operations.

RESULTS

P&G estimates that the avoided emissions from consumers increasing their use of low-energy laundry cycles have been roughly 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to taking three million cars off the road.

Biomass Renewable Electricity and Steam Initiative image

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

At our onsite biomass initiative at our Family Care site in Albany, GA, P&G partnered with Constellation to deliver a 50MW biomass renewable energy facility. The fuel for the biomass is wood waste such as tree branches or pecan shells that would have ended up in the landfill. As of 7/1/2021 ReGenerate Energy Holdings LLC has completed the acquisition of Albany Green Energy, a biomass heat-and-power facility located in Albany, Georgia, from a subsidiary of Exelon Generation Company LLC.

RESULTS

The facility, on P&G property, supplies P&G with renewable steam and renewable electricity while also supplying electricity and steam to the local community. The renewable biomass is waste products that have been diverted from landfills and is Green-e Certified. More details about this partnership can be found here.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Renewable energy will be critical to helping us achieve our net zero climate ambition. Our first offsite renewable energy project was in Cooke County, TX where we signed a 12-year contract with Southern Company. The windfarm has been operational since 2017.

RESULTS

The 52-turbine facility delivers enough renewable electricity to cover 100% of our U.S. and Canada Fabric and Home Care needs. To read more about this initiative and the benefit of wind farms, click here and here.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

What started with forest fire restoration has grown into a commitment to plant more than a million trees. Phase 1: 2018 was a record year for forest fires across California. Between July and December, an estimated 8,000 fires burned across California affecting more than 1.8 million acres of forestland. The Arbor Day Foundation set an ambitious goal of helping impacted families recover from wildfires, by replanting two million trees. P&G, along with Bounty, Charmin and Puffs, was the first to step up and partner with an initial commitment of 300,000 trees. This kickstarted the program and encouraged other companies to join. Earlier this year, we committed to another 100,000 trees, to help the Arbor Day Foundation successfully complete their promise to replant more than two million trees across these communities. Phase 2: Building off the successful partnership in California, Bounty, Charmin and Puffs have committed to plant an additional 100,000 trees a year for the next five years across the U.S. In total, these one million trees will help the families and communities we serve recover and restore local ecosystems.

ACTIONS

We are planting more than one million trees. 500,000 trees in California to specifically help with wildfire recovery and another 500,000 trees over the next five years to support forests in need across the U.S.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

As founding members of the 50 Liter Home Coalition, a global collaborative of public, private and NGO leaders, we’re seeking innovations that will reinvent the future of urban water use.

Through 50L Home, we are joining forces with Electrolux Group, IKEA, Kohler Co., and the U.S. Green Building Council – Los Angeles, to implement a demonstration pilot in Los Angeles, California. We will work to understand water and energy consumption in 30 homes in the greater Los Angeles region, engage tenants, and retrofit 15 of those homes with products and solutions to drive down water use holistically.