Acronyms

AFIRM

Apparel and Footwear International RSL (Restricted Substances List) Management

BICEP

Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy

BOD

Biochemical (biological) oxygen demand

BRAC

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

BSR

Business for Social Responsibility

CAFA

Charities Aid Foundation of America

CAMFED

Campaign for Female Education

CCTF

China Children and Teenagers Fund

CDP

Carbon Disclosure Project

CERES/Ceres

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

CLS

Code Leadership Standard

CO2

Carbon dioxide

COC

Code of Conduct

COD

Chemical oxygen demand

CR

Corporate responsibility

EDNA

U.S. Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009

EHQ

NIKE, Inc.'s European Headquarters

EMEA

Europe, Middle East and Africa

EOT

Excessive overtime

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

EPM

Environmentally preferred material

ESH

Environment, safety and health

EU

European Union

FCPA

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

FESI

Federation of European Sporting Goods Industry

FFC

Fair Factories Clearinghouse

FLA

Fair Labor Association

FOA

Freedom of association

FSC

Forest Stewardship Council

FY

Fiscal year (Nike's begins June 1 each year)

G-20

Group of 20

GHG

Greenhouse gas

GLBT

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender

GRI

Global Reporting Initiative

GX

GreenXchange

HR

Human resources

HRM

Human resources management

HWC

Homeless World Cup

HVAC

Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning

IBLF

The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum

ICRW

International Center for Research on Women

IACC

International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition Inc.

IFC

International Finance Committee

IHS

Indian Health Service

ILO

International Labor Organization

IP/IPR

Intellectual Property / Intellectual Property Rights

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IT

Information technology

J-PAL

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

KPI

Key performance indicators

LEED-EB

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings

LEED-CI

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Commercial/Industrial

LEED-NC

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction

LWG

Leather Working Group

kWh

Kilowatt-hour

M-Audit

Management Audit

MAP

Master action plan

MAT

Material Analysis Tool

MAV

Management Audit Verification

MDG

Millennium Development Goals

MFA

Multi-Fibre Arrangement

MOU

Memorandum of understanding

MSI

Multi-stakeholder initiatives

MSP

Multi-stakeholder partnership

MWBE

Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise

NGO

Non-governmental organization

NITC

NOS/Nike Innovation Training Center

NOS

(lean)

NSAP

New Source Approval Process

NSIF

Nike School Innovation Fund

OECD

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PAC

Political action committee

PATH

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

PBAS

Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme

PDS

Petroleum-derived solvents (formerly referred to as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs))

PFP

Perfluoropropane

PVC

Polyvinyl chloride

QBPC

Quality Brands Protection Committee

RAS

Reuse-A-Shoe

REC

Renewable Energy Certificate

ROI

Return on investment

RSL

Restricted substances list

SAFI

Sustainable Apparel and Footwear Initiative of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

SAY

Shaping America's Youth

SB+I

Sustainable Business and Innovation

SF6

Sulfur hexafluoride

SCAP

Sustainable Clothing Action Plan

SHAPE

Safety, Health, Attitude, People and Environment

SKUs

Shop-keeping units

SPARK

Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids

SRI

Socially responsible investment/investor

SUSU

Stand Up Speak Up

TSS

Total suspended solids

UNGC

United National Global Compact

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

USGBC

U.S. Green Building Council

VOC

Volatile organic compound

WEF

World Economic Forum

WFN

Women's Funding Network

WFSGI

World Federation Sporting Goods Industry

WHQ

NIKE, Inc.'s World Headquarters

WTO

World Trade Organization

WWF

World Wildlife Fund

Terms

Baseline Standard

A measured level of performance, across certain criteria, at a given point in time.

Business Unit

A part of the business that performs specific tasks, develops strategies, and manages performance.

Closed-Loop

Closed-loop products are designed and built for reuse and recycling. Imagine running shoes made with only environmentally preferred materials that can be disassembled into their parts, recycled into new materials and used to produce new running shoes. Nike is extending Closed-Loop thinking to manufacturing and other business processes.

Considered Design

A company-wide design ethos and a team focused on sustainable product innovation, dedicated to increasing the use of environmentally preferred materials and decreasing waste and toxics in Nike branded products.

Considered Index

Evaluates Nike product against Considered Design Ethos on five criteria: materials, waste, materials, garment treatments, innovation

Creative Commons

Nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration; NIKE, Inc.'s partner with other businesses in launching GreenXchange

Culture of Empowerment

A cornerstone of lean manufacturing, pioneered by Toyota. Model illustrates overlap in those areas identified for creating a culture of empowerment and those showing the most need for improvement from factory management audits.

Downstream

Parts of the value chain closer to the end consumer.

Embedded energy

Energy investment in a product; energy used in the work of making a product

Funnel

The Natural Step visual construct demonstrating the transition from today's economy to a sustainable economy.

GreenXchange

New platform for enabling the sharing of intellectual property established by NIKE, Inc., Creative Commons and partner businesses.

Inside the Lines

NIKE, Inc.'s Code of Ethics

Lean

A philosophy of delivering the most value to the customer while consuming the fewest resources.

Let Me Play

Nike programming for global youth excluded from access to sport.

Making the CaseTM

Measurement and evaluation framework created by the Women's Funding Network

The Natural Step

A nonprofit environmental education organization working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society.

Nike Grind

Material used in sports surfaces, playgrounds and other product made from recycled shoes through Nike's Reuse-A-Shoe program.

North Star

Our aim, defining what sustainable products and a sustainable company would look like.

Responsible Competitiveness

Increasing business and industry competitiveness through responsible practices across the supply chain.

Rewire

A Nike-wide review of how we could influence improvements of working conditions in contracted factories.

ROI2

Business strategies that generate a combination of financial, environmental and/or social returns on investment.

Scorecard

A mechanism for measuring progress against vision and strategy that provides a comprehensive view of performance.

Sustainable Venture

A social or environmental partnership that is self-sustaining financially.

Title IX

1972 U.S. legislation, the Patsy T. Mike Equal Opportunity in Education Act, that opened the door for female athletes to pursue sport and improve gender equality.

Upstream

Parts of the value chain closer to concept and design.

WE Portal

Collaborative digital tool for employees to connect with community organizations and one another and take on issues that are important to them. It enables employees to volunteer, donate and give their voice to the organizations and communities they care about.

Wicked problems

Problems that reflect how global economic, environmental and social changes will fundamentally challenge our business model. They exemplify areas where market leaders have built competitive advantages, but now a rapidly changing world is turning these very advantages on their heads to become potential drawbacks.

Wikinomics

Open-sourced mass collaboration.