Impact Scorecard

Cargill’s purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Our strategy and goals are aligned with the United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as indicated below.

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Climate²

Our targets contribute to the following SDGs:

GOAL	METRIC	PROGRESS¹
Scope 1 and 2: Reduce absolute operational GHG emissions by 10% by 2025	CO2e reduction from 2017 baseline	2.6M MT CO2e Goal: 10%        Actual Reduction: 20.9%
Scope 33: Reduce global GHG emissions from our global supply chain by 30%, measured per ton of product	Millions of MT CO2e reduced	1.06M MT CO2e reduced through supply chain sustainability programs

 

Land and Water

Our targets contribute to the following SDGs: 

GOAL	METRIC	PROGRESS¹
Eliminate deforestation across our agricultural supply chain by 2030	Detailed dashboards of progress against land use metrics are in the cocoa, palm, and soy Supply Chain sections; these are the priority supply chains that comprise our global land use commitment.
Water (Operations): Implement water stewardship practices at all 68 priority facilities by 2025	Average implementation of water stewardship practices across all priority facilities	96%   Goal: 100%
Water (Supply Chain and Communities): Enable a water positive impact4 in all priority regions by 2030	Progress toward enabling a water positive impact	40.7%   Goal: 100%

 

People

Our targets contribute to the following SDGs:

GOAL	METRIC	PROGRESS¹
Farmer Livelihoods (Trainings): Provide 10 million farmer trainings in sustainable agricultural practices by 2030	Farmer trainings delivered since 2017	7.7 million   Goal: 10 million
Farmer Livelihoods (Hatching Hope): Improve nutrition and economic livelihoods by reaching 100 million people by 2030 through the production, promotion, and consumption of poultry	People reached since 20185	36.2 million Goal: 100 million
Global Contributions: Invest in programs and projects that advance social and environmental impact priorities and support local communities	Invested across 72 countries this year	$110 million

 

¹ Progress based on achievements as of fiscal year 2025 across our sustainability focus areas.

² Scope 1 and 2 refers to GHG emissions from our operations and from energy purchased from the grid, respectively. Scope 3 refers to upstream and downstream supply chain emissions.

³ Cargill is tracking its Scope 3 progress based on a metric of reductions on an annual basis. Cargill will transition to reporting a % reduction against Scope 3 baseline following issuance of applicable external GHG accounting standards.

⁴ Cargill defines a water positive impact as effectively improving watershed health by addressing the shared water challenges of availability, quality, and access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), using an approach that is informed by our footprint and the severity of local water challenges. For more information on supply chain water goal accounting, please read here.

⁵ People reached includes farmers, market actors, household members, and consumers.