2020 Sustainability Report

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  1. Supply Chain Management
    Working with our suppliers to create shared value.
  2. Ethics & Compliance
    Creating a culture The Greif Way.
  3. Risk Management & Business Continuity
    Maintaining our commitments through difficult situations.
  4. Valuing Our People
    The success of Greif's global operations is dependent on our ability to protect, engage and develop talent and uphold human rights along our supply chain.
  5. Talent Attraction, Development & Retention
    Discovering and growing the workforce that will carry Greif into the future.
  6. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
    Building a diverse workforce to serve our diverse global customers.
  7. Health & Safety
    Protecting our colleagues’ right to work in a safe and accident-free environment.
  8. Human Rights & Fair Labor Practices
    Upholding fundamental rights in our operations and throughout our supply chain.
  9. Advancing Circular Economy
    Through process, materials and manufacturing innovations, Greif works to reduce our environmental impact and create a more circular economy.
  10. Innovation
    Improving products and processes to reduce our footprint and drive customer satisfaction.
  11. Cradle to Cradle Manufacturing, Reconditioning & Recycling
    Working to divert used packaging from landfills and reduce the use of virgin materials.
  12. Security
    Protecting our people and products, and the data with which we are trusted.
  13. Financial Performance & Profitable Growth
    At Greif, financial and sustainability performance are mutually beneficial and enable each other. Achieving both are central to The Greif Way.
  14. Sustainability Goals
    In 2019, Greif reinforced our long-term commitment to sustainability by setting 2025 goals.
  15. Performance Dashboard
    Greif publishes our sustainability performance data to demonstrate our commitment to transparently reporting progress against our 2025 goals.
  16. Internal Awards
    In 2010, we introduced the Michael J. Gasser Global Sustainability Award to encourage all Greif colleagues to consider the sustainability of their decisions at work.
  17. ESG Reporting Indices
  18. UNGC COP
    Since 2016 Greif has been a United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) signatory. Our 2020 Communication on Progress (COP) is part of our 2020 Sustainability Report.
  19. SASB Index
    Greif has reported SASB indicators since our 2019 Sustainability Report.
  20. TCFD Index
  21. Report Downloads
    In 2009, Greif published our first sustainability report. Please review our past reports to see how our efforts have progressed.
  22. Graphs
  23. Delivering Superior Customer Service
    Greif's sustainability commitments fully support our vision of, in industrial packaging, be the best performing customer service company in the world.
  24. Accreditations & Awards
    Greif celebrates our sustainability performance internally and is proud of the recognition we've received from organizations like CDP and EcoVadis.
  25. Overview
    This is Greif’s twelfth annual sustainability report, prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Core option and fulfills the UNGC annual COP.
  26. Sustainability Timeline
    Since its inception by the Greif brothers in 1877, the idea of sustainability and being a responsible global citizen has been ingrained into Greif's DNA.
  27. A Letter from Our Chairman
    Greif's sustainability commitments fully support our vision of, in industrial packaging, be the best performing customer service company in the world.
  28. Stakeholder Engagement & Materiality
    Greif's 2020 Sustainability Report was informed by a robust stakeholder engagement and materiality assessment, which was also used to set new 2025 goals.
  29. Governance, Policies & Partnerships
    Through our policies, collaborative partnerships and board oversight, sustainability is core to how Greif conducts business.
  30. Strategic Integration
    Greif's 2017 Sustainability Report was informed by a robust stakeholder engagement and materiality assessment, which was also used to set new 2025 goals.
  31. Overview
    Greif is a leading global producer of industrial packaging products and services with 16,000 colleagues worldwide.
  32. Product Quality
    Establishing quality control standards to meet customer expectations with every order and every delivery.
  33. Customer Service Excellence
    Leading through service, reliability and creating a customer-centric culture.
  34. Reducing Our Footprint
    Greif's sustainability agenda works to create sustainable value to benefit our entire value chain, the environment and all of our stakeholders.
  35. Environmental Management Systems
    Demonstrating our commitment to our regulatory obligations.
  36. Climate Strategy
    Driving operational change in a changing world.
  37. Water
    Optimizing the use and improving the quality of water in our operations.
  38. Waste
    Working towards a zero waste to landfill organization.
  39. Addressing Risk
    The Greif Way ensures we’re engaging in ethical behaviors and partnering with organizations that share our values, contributing to how we mitigate risk.
  40. Biodiversity
    Demonstrating our commitment to our regulatory obligations.
  41. About Our Company
  42. UN SDG Content Index
  43. GRI Content Index
  44. About Our Report
  45. Highlight Stories
  46. Goals, Performance & Highlights
  47. Sustainability Strategies
  48. Sustainability
    Our 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report highlights Greif's sustainability efforts, progress, and impact in the workplace, community, environment, and economy in 2016.

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Greif’s 2020 CDP Score

Demonstrating excellence in carbon management, governance, strategy and best practices, and outperforming the overall and North American average CDP score of D.

71.8%

Reduction in Biochemical Oxygen Demand

Our efforts in water quality have allowed us to already meet our 10% reduction by 2025 goal.

244,600

Acres Under Management

We practice sustainable forestry across our operations in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and offer services to improve land management practices across industries.

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