Shaping Sustainability: Building the Enterprise of the Future

This week, BAT is marking a milestone that highlights the continued sustainability journey we are on. We’re launching our first ever ESG Week, highlighting how we’re building the sustainable enterprise of the future. We are also marking almost a year since we committed to new health, environmental, social and governance targets as part of our journey to deliver A Better Tomorrow?. These include:

• Increasing BAT consumers of non-combustible products to 50 million by 2030;
• Achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 and accelerating other existing environmental targets to 2025*
• Eliminating unnecessary single-use plastic and making all plastic packaging recyclable by 2025**

Our ESG targets are transformational, driving growth and shared value, delivering results that benefit society as well as investors. 

We are making strong progress ensuring sustainability is front and centre. Since March last year, BAT:

• Launched the industry’s first ever Human Rights report
• Was the only tobacco company to be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, its 19th consecutive year in the Index series
• Was awarded an ‘A’ score for climate change by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
• Was named as a Diversity Leader by the Financial Times in its inaugural Diversity Leaders report

We hope our ESG week will inspire others. You’ll be able to read all about our ESG commitments and performance next week, in our forthcoming annual ESG Report, so watch this space.

Best practice sharing is vital to driving sustainable progress. Share your sustainability successes and best practices here. #ESG #Sustainability #ABetterTomorrow 

Notes

* Based on Scope 1 and 2 carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions.

** In full, our 2025 targets are to: eliminate all unnecessary single-use plastic packaging; 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable; and 30% recycled content in plastic packaging