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FMC’s sustainability goals are aligned with the
company’s Vision 2015 plan, a strategic roadmap
crafted in 2010 to broaden opportunities for
our customers, shareholders and employees,
as well as to strengthen our position in the
global marketplace. Because we recognize our
continued viability and growth as a business
must deliver both shareholder value and
societal value, we are focused on incorporating
sustainability into our innovation, operations
and business practices.
In the past, FMC businesses made impressive
independent strides to advance sustainability.
Today, our coordinated “One FMC” approach
enhances the scope and durability of our
sustainability impact across the corporation.
In 2012 we established implementation teams
in each business, function and region, as part of
our commitment to make sustainability a real
and measurable component of our business
companywide. We also formed an executive
steering team to prioritize efforts, approve
changes to key business processes and allocate
resources. And ultimately all sustainability
efforts are governed by the FMC Board of
Directors Sustainability Committee, which
provides strategic oversight.
Implementing Systems for Success
Within our first full year of operating with
this new structure, we adjusted our processes
for innovating products, evaluating vendors,
interacting with stakeholders and engaging
with the communities where we do business.
In addition, we updated our business Code of
Ethics to clarify our position on human dignity
practices.
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The impact of these foundational adjustments
has only just begun. As we enter 2013, we are
becoming more efficient and more effective
with our newly altered processes – which will
continually be accessed and refined. And we are
already evaluating the next series of processes to
further integrate FMC’s sustainability principles
into our business equation.
Setting Meaningful Targets
As we increased engagement with internal
and external stakeholders over the past year,
a common theme soon emerged. We heard
repeated compliments on our progress and
thoughtful approach, but many sought forwardfocused
commitments that are tangible and
measurable.
Like many global corporations, FMC faces
a significant challenge in standardizing and
effectively forecasting non-financial performance
metrics across a global network of different
operations. But now, with a sustainability
infrastructure in place, movement on new
business process elements, and a system for
the regular collection of standard non-financial
information on a common basis from business
operations worldwide, we are ready to make the
commitments outlined in the following pages.
View our approach, vision and
organizational structure online.