Protecting our planet

We believe that people can only live their healthiest lives on a healthy planet. That’s why we reduce our environmental footprint by finding innovative ways to eliminate our operational carbon footprint, cutting our waste and water usage, and building sustainability into our products.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Engineering Impact: Product stewardship
To support a healthy planet, Medtronic is working to find opportunities to improve product stewardship — from design and manufacturing, to packaging, distribution, reuse, and disposal and recently established two new waste reduction targets.

Environment

Putting Purpose into Action: Environmental Stewardship
Today, it’s more important than ever that we acknowledge and plan for the challenges caused by climate change. That is why Medtronic has set a goal to be carbon neutral in our operations by FY30.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Putting Purpose into Action: Product Stewardship
Medtronic is putting purpose into action. Learn more about product stewardship in our FY20 Integrated Performance Report.

Energy

Medtronic: Saving Energy, Protecting the Planet
Medtronic has set a goal to become carbon neutral by 2030, using tools like virtual power purchase agreements to buy long-term supplies of clean energy to further reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Environment

Global Corporate Sustainability Projects
Through dozens of projects around the world, Medtronic is lessening its environmental impact by conserving energy and water, increasing recycling, and reducing waste.

Environment

Medtronic CEO Reinforces Commitment To Sustainability
Business Roundtable CEOs, including Medtronic Chairman and CEO, Omar Ishrak, are embracing sustainability across their businesses. Now, through the #EmbracingSustainability challenge, they are sharing progress and calling on other business leaders to balance environmental stewardship practices and social impact with economic growth for a sustainable future.

Environment

Promoting Environmental Stewardship
The Medtronic Mission calls us to improve human welfare, which includes caring for our planet. Making the world a healthier place means addressing our environmental impact holistically — from innovating operations to minimize our footprint to product design, manufacturing, and disposal.

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