Climate change is a priority for Cargill, our customers, our stakeholders and the communities in which we do business. We address climate change by learning everything we can about it – and monitoring and assessing implications of a carbon-reduced economy. We recognize there are unknowns in climate change and climate change cannot be solved by any one party alone. For this reason, we institute a variety of actions.

• Cargill’s global reach, connection with agriculture, and trading expertise puts us in a unique position to support development of efficient carbon markets.
• We began reducing our environmental impact by seeking to use energy and resources more wisely - even before climate change became a central issue. We set performance goals and continue to take action toward meeting these goals.
• We work with customers who want to document or lower the carbon footprints of their products. We are evolving and improving our knowledge on how to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout our supply chains. 
• We share our operational and supply-chain expertise with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders in an effort to deepen understanding of climate change and explore opportunities. Our activities range from helping farmers around the world implement more environmentally beneficial agricultural practices, to providing financing for innovative biomass, hydro, wind and other carbon reduction projects in countries as diverse as China, Mexico and Pakistan. 
• We partner with organizations and academic institutions to build understanding on a range of climate issues including agriculture’s effect on climate change and vice versa.
• We began quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from all our facilities in 2006. Our GHG inventory covers more than 1,100 locations globally and encompasses 15 different manufacturing technologies. Our inventory includes both emissions generated from our own operations (Scope I) and from energy we buy (Scope II) and is based on the internationally accepted Greenhouse Gas Protocol developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.