Our targets
We set targets to drive progress in priority areas. Every year, we measure performance and report on our progress.
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Highlights
Sustainability overview
Our purpose starts with the soil beneath our feet and the global challenge of feeding nearly 10 billion people by the year 2050. We help cultivate solutions for farmers so they can increase food production for generations to come.
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By the numbers
3.7 million
sustainable agriculture program acres¹
15%
reduction in GHG emissions intensity (Scope 1 and Scope 2) per tonne of our products produced, compared to our 2018 base year.
9%
reduction in Nitrogen GHG emissions intensity (Scope 1 and Scope 2) per tonne of ammonia produced, on an intensity basis vs 2018 base year.
1.1 billion
CAD local Potash supplier spend with direct Indigenous economic impact, between 2020-2024.
65 years
of potash production in Saskatchewan.
3.0 million
m³ reduction in freshwater use, compared to our 2018 base year at higher-risk and higher-use manufacturing facilities.
28 million
USD in community investment.
Nutrien’s Sustainability Framework
Sustainability at Nutrien aims to create long-term success by addressing relevant risks and opportunities through the lens of people, planet, and prosperity.
Our Global Sustainability Framework² guides us as we strive to mitigate risks and create value. We focus our efforts on the following:
- Executing with strong business foundations,
- Managing our operational impact on land, air and water,
- Helping to build resilient communities and industries around us, and
- Collaborating to advance innovative agricultural solutions for farmers.
We aim to identify risks and opportunities, build strategic plans, take action, measure performance, and communicate our results. We also collaborate with stakeholders around the globe because for agriculture to succeed, we must work together.
Priorities
Our topics
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The UN SDGs bring the world together to address global challenges by 2030.
Our ambition is to contribute to global food security by being the leading provider of crop inputs and services. Our efforts support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger.
Specifically, SDG indicator 2.4.1, which is the proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture. We strive to provide solutions to help farmers so they can increase their farm productivity, profitability and environmental stewardship. We recognize that the world cannot solve one SDG without influencing another, which is why we encourage a systems-based approach to the SDGs. We believe that collaboration with stakeholders across the globe is critical in helping to lower GHG emissions (SDG 13: Climate Action) in a manner that does not threaten food production (SDG 2).
Related resources
Policies, programs and partners
Nutrien Code of Conduct
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Our performance
Sustainability report
Review progress on our sustainability-related priority topics and performance.
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Data tool
Use our interactive analyst center to get key financial, operating, and sustainability information.
Access the data¹ Sustainable Agriculture Program acres participate in programs that track field-level data, which can be analyzed for performance metrics that incentivize farmers to adopt practices and products resulting in quantifiable, incremental benefits which may be verified.
² Nutrien’s Global Sustainability Framework is a business framework only and does not, and should not be construed to, constitute a representation suggesting that our business and/or business activities are sustainable or have environmental or social benefits beyond what is shared in our annual disclosure documents.