55 SUSTAINABILITY CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT OUR MANAGEMENT APPROACH Our Global Supply Chain function, which includes the Environment, Health, Safety + Sustainability (EHS+S) team, is responsible for managing energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, implementing waste-reduction and recycling efforts, and reducing water use across our business. In addition, our Global Corporate Sustainability team helps manage and advise on aspects of our environmental strategy, including our climate action plan and Net Zero portfolio. Our manufacturing sites * have been externally certified to ISO 14001 standards, a voluntary standard to drive improvement, since 2000. As part of maintaining our certification, we continuously improve our environmental and safety management and performance. We also assess our suppliers across a range of environmental performance criteria. *Excludes sites that were acquired after January 1, 2020. ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT An employee in our NorthTec facility in Bristol, Pennsylvania
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