Our Targets

Our Sustainability 2017 Vision is underpinned by a number of key targets.

In addition, we also have targets in place relating to group safety and ISO 14001 implementation.

Our group targets:

Achieve carbon neutrality.
More than double our earnings per share by 2017.
Achieve zero waste to landfill by 2017.
Halve the key resources we consume per unit of output by 2017.
Achieve a zero ‘greater than three day accidents’ safety target.
Implement ISO 14001 (environmental management system) at all manufacturing sites by 2010.

2008/09 was the first full year of our Sustainability 2017 initiative. During the year, key performance indicators (KPIs) were developed for the group’s Sustainability 2017 targets and we have begun to track our progress towards them.

Find out how we are progressing towards Sustainability 2017

Johnson Matthey’s businesses are quite diverse and so the development of meaningful targets and KPIs that are applicable across the group is not straightforward. The group targets we have set to date are relevant to all our businesses and give each one the flexibility to deliver improvements that are pertinent to their sustainability goals.

From 1st April 2009 we have introduced an additional group target to reduce the annual incidence of occupational illness cases by at least 30% over the next five years. Our businesses have also started to develop their own individual targets as part of their annual sustainability plans. This bottom up approach is expected to produce further aggregated targets for the group as a whole and we are also working to identify the common ground in our businesses where further group targets could be developed in the future.