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STEADFAST AND STEADY ON THE PATH TO GREATER RESPONSIBILITY

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Making Progress toward a Sustainable Future

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF OUR COMPANY REINFORCE OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE CHEMISTRY.

Built for Better

We have made great strides in our Corporate Responsibility Commitment (CRC) journey since it began in 2017. To ensure our steady progress continues all the way to our 2030 goals and beyond, we’ve set ourselves a series of interim objectives. These milestones—and our journey to a sustainable future—emerge from the values and principles that guide us.

Our Values

Our ambition to be a different kind of chemistry company, one dedicated to the principle of responsible chemistry, is embedded in our shared values. These five values are the ethical foundation for all that we do, as employees and as a company, and they are reflected in our Corporate Responsibility Commitments.

The Chemours five values that guide us. 

Our Principles

Born of our values, our guiding principles have helped shape our commitment to drive responsible chemistry. They have provided the foundation for developing our CRC goals and will inform our ongoing focused efforts to responsibly grow our company.

Our guiding principles the help inform and direct our corporate responsibility.    

Assessing Issues and Keeping Stakeholders Informed

Through our issue assessment, we track a range of issues crucial to our ongoing sustainability journey and make sure to keep stakeholders abreast of those that are most important to them. Our 2020 issue prioritization matrix illustrates the 24 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues that are the most important, or material, to our stakeholders and to Chemours.

Our issue assessment methodology. 

 

Corporate Responsibility Commitment Resources

COMMITTED FROM THE START

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Launching Our 10 Ambitious CRC Goals

We began our sustainability journey in 2017 by looking at the future growth of our company through the lens of sustainability. That led us to launch our 10 ambitious goals a year later. These goals define our actions as a company and require every one of us to help build a better future. They also call upon us to share our steps along the way toward achieving our CRC goals by 2030.

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Linking to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

We designed our goals to track closely to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in order to make certain that the steps we are taking are what the world most needs. Since we cannot tackle every UN SDG, we’ve focused on those where we can make the biggest difference: clean water and sanitation, responsible consumption and production, and climate action. We contribute to the remaining goals at varying levels.

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Signing the United Nations Global Compact

We are also a participant in the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and have been since 2018. We committed to communicate our progress toward implementing the 10 UNGC principles covering human rights, child and forced labor, the environment, and anti-corruption, and to act in support of broader UN goals.

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Transparency through Reporting

Since transparency is central to our efforts, Chemours has reported in the GRI standards format since 2018, making sure to disclose the general and specific corporate responsibility activities most important to the company. In 2019, we added another reporting format: the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework, which provides accounting and sustainability metrics that are standard in the chemical sector, and a submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to independently assess the effectiveness of our climate management approach.

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Our commitment to sustainability continues to grow—and did so even during the challenges of 2020. We challenge ourselves, our industry peers, and those with whom we do business to help make a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Recognizing Our Responsibility

We are proud of the progress we have made, but it is especially gratifying when external organizations notice our evolution too. In the past year, we were honored with the following:

  • The 2020 Association of American Railroads Non-Accident Release Grand Slam Award
  • The 2021 American Chemistry Council (ACC) Responsible Care® Outstanding COVID-19 Response Efforts Award
  • Three out of four Green Globes rating for the Chemours Discovery Hub's building sustainability
  • Nine ACC Responsible Care Facility Safety Awards
  • Wildlife Habitat Council Conservation Certification at two sites, earning gold and silver certification levels
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) highest-level Star certification, maintained at two sites
  • The 2021 ACC Sustainability Leadership Award for EVOLVE 2030
  • EcoVadis silver certification for the second year in a row