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Profile: Nike, Inc.
Beaverton, OR
Annual Revenue: Fiscal Year 2003 Total Revenues: $10.697 billion
Number of employees: Approximately 22,000
We’re working to reduce emissions not just from Nike-owned facilities,
but eventually from contract factories and processes throughout our supply
chain. To do this effectively, we’ve found it helpful to rely
on partners in the environmental community.
Much of our work on climate change unfolds in the context of our relationship
with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and its Climate Savers program, which we joined
in 2001. Their help, as we come to grips with what it means to measure
and reduce a global company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has been
immense. Working together, we established a set of short- and mid-term
goals, including the following:
- Reduce GHG emissions from Nike-owned facilities larger than 20,000 sq. ft. (1860 m2) and business air travel by 13% below 1998 levels by the end of 2005. Although Nike’s facilities expand as our business grows, we intend to invest in energy efficiency projects and purchase green power (link to Our Workplace section) to return our facilities GHG emissions to 1998 levels. We will purchase energy-efficiency offsets to mitigate the impact of business travel to reach the reduction goal. (Offsets are investments that help reduce energy use elsewhere; they acknowledge that we don’t have a great deal of control over, say, airplane fuel efficiency).
- Determine baselines for GHG emissions from footwear and apparel contracted manufacturing facilities. Nike will engage in pilot programs, explore best management practices, and take steps necessary to create a benchmark impact and then a long-term reductions plan by the end of 2005. We are working to reduce GHG emissions not just at our own facilities, but facilities in our supply chain that are owned and operated by other companies. Very few models exist for such a process.
- Determine baselines for our GHG emissions from logistics encompassing the movement of finished products to customer warehouses. In this area as well, we will explore the best methods for reducing our impact, with a long-term plan finished by the end of 2005.
"Nike strives to incorporate environmental responsibility throughout operations and throughout our product life cycle. We are committed to finding innovative ways to reduce our impact."
Jim Goddard
Nike’s Director of Environmental Initiatives