Our Climate Strategy

To ensure faster and more long-standing impact, we have reestablished the way we organize and manage our climate and energy work to align with NIKE, Inc.'s value chain and the way our business operates. We also recognize the widely different strategies and tasks involved in reducing the footprint we own compared to the footprint we influence. Collaboration and partnerships, both in and outside the company and the industry, will be critical to our success.

Our Mission

Reduce our consumer and our businesses' energy footprint to enable both to thrive in tomorrow's low-carbon economy.

Our Focus

NIKE, Inc. has evolved the way we address the climate change issue and where we spend our time and resources. In FY02 we assessed our footprint and set out to meet ambitious goals around the reduction of greenhouse gas remissions. We eliminated the potent greenhouse gas SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) from our footwear. We achieved our World Wildlife Fund Climate Saver's Program goal of reducing CO2 by 18 percent in owned facilities and business travel from 1998 to 2005 - even as facilities grew by 6 percent. In FY07-09 we began focusing deeper in our value chain.

We have evaluated our overall energy use and our overall greenhouse gas emissions. We have also drawn a distinction between what we own and control and what we can influence.

This insight has helped us identify the areas of greatest emissions and focus our efforts where they will have the greatest impact: in manufacturing, logistics and the materials that make up our products.

When the footprint is expanded to include embedded energy calculations (which accounts for the energy used to make a material, for example), we see even more clearly that our products and the process of manufacturing are the areas of greatest impact. We are now focusing on those areas in which we have influence and are extending the lessons we have learned from our owned operations.

In our owned footprint we focus on energy use reductions and procurement of renewable energy. In our larger supply chain (that we don't control directly), we focus on advocacy and collaboration to ensure that suppliers and factories have the right tools and incentives to make sustainable choices.

For years, our focus on climate change has been in step with growing scientific evidence and awareness externally. But to designers, factory owners, facility managers, transport partners and others, climate change can be an abstract concept. Our focus on energy, on the other hand, is more tangible and measurable; something everyone is familiar with. Our major climate impact, carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions almost all trace back to energy use.

On the public policy front, we've joined with key allies in the business community and with members of Congress to advocate for meaningful energy and climate change legislation that is consistent with a set of core principles.

Our Footprint

To assess our overall footprint and provide consistent comparisons year-over-year, we continue to apply the reporting structure and methodology used for our commitment to the WWF Climate Savers program.