Caterpillar Sustainability - Vision, Mission & Strategy
Our vision is a world in which all people's basic requirements - such as shelter, clean water, sanitation and reliable power - are fulfilled in a way that sustains our environment.
Our mission is to enable economic growth through infrastructure and energy development, and to provide solutions that protect people and preserve the planet.
Our strategy is to provide work environments, products, services and solutions that make efficient use of the world's natural resources and reduce unnecessary impacts on people, the environment and the economy. This means that we leverage resources including technology and innovation to:
- Promote and protect individual safety and well-being
- Provide employment, education and training
- Minimize the use of energy, materials, water and land
- Maximize recycling
- Minimize emissions
- Optimize the use of renewable resources
We will execute our strategy by working to meet our long-term aspirational goals. We set yearly targets where possible and are working on additional targets to help us measure our annual progress.
Critical Success Factors
Culture. Create a culture of sustainable development in all our business
units and in all our daily work.
Progress: Sustainable development questions on our employee
opinion survey measure awareness and understanding of sustainability.
We continue to foster a corporate culture of transparency, disclosure
and engagement.
Operations. Be consistent with our sustainability principles and contribute
to enterprise-sustainable development goals.
Progress: The Caterpillar Production System provides the recipe
for deploying and sustaining excellence in our facilities. We actively
encourage employees to conserve resources and be more efficient.
Operating in a more efficient and sustainable manner will reduce impacts
on people and the environment, and help us and our customers save money.
Business Opportunities. Identify and pursue business growth
opportunities created by sustainable development.
Progress: We are working to embed sustainability into our Caterpillar
brand portfolio, new product development process and our technologies.
Our business leaders continue to drive growth in sales of products,
services and solutions that help customers meet their sustainability
challenges. We utilize 6 Sigma methodologies to focus our work and
drive measurable benefits.
2020 Goals for
Operations
- Design all new construction to
meet Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED)
or comparable green building
criteria
- Eliminate waste by reducing waste generation and reusing
or recycling all that remains
- Hold water consumption flat
- Use alternative / renewable
sources to meet 20% of our
energy needs
- Reduce absolute greenhouse
gas emissions from existing
facilities by 25%
- Increase energy efficiency
by 25%
- Reduce recordable workplace
injury rates to 0.6 and lost-time
case rate due to injury to 0.15
2020 Goals for
Products,
Services and
Solutions
- Increase customer materials
efficiency by 20%
- Increase customer energy
efficiency by 20%
- Reduce customer greenhouse
gas emissions by 20%
- Provide leadership in the safety
of people in, on and around our
products
