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• Incorporating sustainability into existing internal
and external communications channels;
• Facilitating discussions with external
stakeholders to gain feedback regarding our
2011 Sustainability Report and FMC’s overall
sustainability program; and
• Developing a strategic engagement plan that will
increase interaction with external stakeholders
to advance issues that are high priority for them
and FMC.
A Focus on External Stakeholder Needs
As a company that maintains strong customer
and community relationships, FMC has a positive
track record of communicating with external
stakeholders; however in our 2011 report we
made a commitment to continue to increase
engagement with external stakeholders. One
of the first steps we took was to talk with
stakeholders about our sustainability strategy.
During 2012, we discussed our program with
customers, distributors, suppliers, community
advisory panels, educational institutions,
regulators, NGOs, industry groups, and investors.
Each interaction is helping us calibrate and
enhance the practical effectiveness of our
program.
We increased proactive engagement in 2012 with
interested parties on broader sustainability topics.
We identified external stakeholders whose priority
issues are also important to FMC and we initiated
positive, collaborative discussions with some of
these stakeholders.
Our initial research and discussions with NGOs
and environmental organizations, for example,
helped us focus our engagement strategy in three
key areas where FMC can have significant impact:
sustainable food supply, sustainable energy supply
and meaningful community partnerships.
As we develop our own sustainability program,
we are working to advance thought leadership.
Examples of this include our active participation
on the Advisory Council for the Sustainability
Accounting Standards Board and the Corporate
Advisory Board for the Initiative for Global
Environmental Leadership at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
ADDRESSING STAKEhOLDER
FEEDBACK
After publishing our first Sustainability
Report in 2O11, we engaged an
independent firm to conduct a series
of interviews with a diverse set of
stakeholders to gather unbiased
feedback on both our reporting efforts
and our approach. Our key audiences
challenged us to be more specific about
our sustainability goals and set firm
metrics. We have taken this constructive
feedback into account as we developed
this 2O12 Sustainability Report. We will
continue to draw on this input as our
program continues to develop.
''IGEL is honored to have FMC
as a new member to Wharton's
Initiative for Global Environmental
Leadership. FMC's thought leadership
in formulating sustainable solutions
to a number of world challenges is
a tremendous value to IGEL and
to the Wharton School at Penn.
FMC's role as a corporate board
member provides a resource to our
undergraduate and MBA students
as they are seeking mentors and
role models for career choices in the
environmental management space.''
Joanne Spigonardo, Associate Director,
Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership
(IGEL), The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
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