How we are doing

	Our areas of focus	Challenges & opportunities	What we said we would do	FY2010/11 How we are doing	FY2011/12 Objectives
Environment	Implementing environmental management systems and continuously improving environmental performance at Amcor sites.	3&8		New global environmental standards were developed for environmental discharges, community impact, and cooling tower management.	To be developed.
	Regularly setting and working towards our EnviroAction targets.	Launch new five-year EnviroAction reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste to landfill.	Compared with our FY2005/06 baseline, the GHG intensity of the new Amcor (including all acquired sites) has increased – refer to Environment section for commentary. Legacy Amcor sites continued their downward trend with a reduction of 4.5% – target not achieved. 59% reduction in waste to landfill from our FY2005/06 baseline – target achieved. 46% reduction in town water use intensity in Australasia from our FY2005/06 baseline – target achieved. Launched the new five-year EnviroAction reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste to landfill on World Environment Day.	Enhance internal reporting and communication of our EnviroAction performance.
	Working with suppliers and customers to reduce environmental impacts throughout our supply chains and the lifecycle of our products.	Integrate our supply chain sustainability management initiatives with Procure Plus (our corporate procurement program).	Commenced discussions with the Procurement Leadership Team about the development of sustainability standards for suppliers and their integration with corporate procurement plans and programs. Our Flexibles Europe & Americas business commenced sustainability assessments of suppliers in coordination with its procurement team.	Establish corporate sustainability standards for suppliers and commence the process of integration with corporate procurement plans and programs.
	Our areas of focus	Challenges & opportunities	What we said we would do	FY2010/11 How we are doing	FY2011/12 Objectives
Community	Conducting open and constructive dialogue with our communities.	7		Ongoing dialogue between sites and their communities.	To be developed.
	Supporting local community projects.	Increase the coverage of the estimate of our community investments.	Participation in community projects by all Amcor businesses. Plans to better estimate our community investment in each region deferred.	To be developed.
	Utilising our packaging expertise to address social and environmental needs.		During our 10-year relationship with Earthwatch, 90 co-workers have participated in 44 expeditions. Discussions commenced with Earthwatch to incorporate packaging sustainability in research projects.	Review partnerships to ensure better alignment with our packaging capabilities and core business.
	Our areas of focus	Challenges & opportunities	What we said we would do	FY2010/11 How we are doing	FY2011/12 Objectives
Workplace	Maintaining a safe workplace – ‘No Injuries’.	5&6	Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) and Recordable Case Frequency Rate (RCFR) improvement.	LTIFR improvement of 11% and RCFR improvement of 2.4%. 140+ sites with RCFR of zero. New global standards for safety, environment and security developed, defining new minimum performance expectations for each of our sites.	LTIFR and RCFR improvement. Roll out of the OHS&E toolkit. Develop and launch new Fire Protection Standards and Risk Engineering Guidelines.
	Engaging and developing our co-workers.	Consolidate internal corporate sustainability communications.	Responsible Packaging message defined and development of internal communications materials commenced. Leadership pulse survey undertaken for the second year in a row. Engagement surveys undertaken in three of our business groups. 16,151 course modules completed by Amcor co-workers through Amcor Global University.	Roll out internal responsible packaging and sustainability communications. Conduct a global engagement survey.
	Maintaining a diverse workforce and providing equal opportunity.		Launched the global Talent through Diversity policy. Amcor Australasia Diversity Council launched.	Develop the global diversity strategy and review current business group diversity activities.
	Our areas of focus	Challenges & opportunities	What we said we would do	FY2010/11 How we are doing	FY2011/12 Objectives
Marketplace	Utilising our life cycle assessment capabilities to offer customers responsible packaging; and supporting our customers’ sustainability objectives.	3&8		955 Voice of the Customer surveys conducted. 657 Lifecycle assessments and carbon footprint analyses conducted.	To be developed.
	Promoting the role and benefits of responsible packaging.	Formalise corporate sustainability communications for customer-facing co-workers.	Responsible Packaging message defined; plans to develop external corporate sustainability communications for Sales & Marketing co-workers deferred to FY2011/12. Ongoing participation in industry forums such as the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and the Global Packaging Project of the Consumer Goods Forum. Ongoing participation in customer sustainability working groups and 29 presentations on the role of packaging at industry forums and conferences.	Develop and launch a sustainability communications toolkit for Amcor’s co-workers to use when communicating to external audiences.
	Ensuring responsible and ethical procurement.		155 sites participated in Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and six sites completed third party audits.	To be developed.
	Our areas of focus	Challenges & opportunities	What we said we would do	FY2010/11 How we are doing	FY2011/12 Objectives
Economy	Positioning Amcor to realise opportunities for sustainable business growth.	1,2,3,4&8	Continue the integration of the former Alcan Packaging businesses and realise related synergies.	Profit after tax and before significant items up 39% from last year to $570.3 million.	To be developed.
	Demonstrating good governance, sensible risk taking and business continuity management.		Gap analysis of our business continuity management (BCM) programs conducted against the British Standard BS25999.	Develop and launch best practice Business Continuity Management and Crisis Communications Toolkits.
	Managing climate change related challenges and opportunities.		Participated in the Australian Government dialogue on the introduction of a carbon price Participated in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol of the World Resources Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Responsible Aluminium forum.

Our areas of focus

Challenges
& opportunities

What we said we would do

FY2010/11 How we are doing

FY2011/12 Objectives

Environment

Implementing environmental management systems and continuously improving environmental performance at Amcor sites.

3&8

New global environmental standards were developed for environmental discharges,
community impact, and cooling tower management.

To be developed.

Regularly setting and working towards our EnviroAction targets.

Launch new five-year EnviroAction reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste to landfill.

Compared with our FY2005/06 baseline, the GHG intensity of the new Amcor (including all acquired sites) has increased – refer to Environment section for commentary. Legacy Amcor sites continued their downward trend with a reduction of 4.5% – target not achieved.
59% reduction in waste to landfill from our FY2005/06 baseline – target achieved.
46% reduction in town water use intensity in Australasia from our FY2005/06 baseline – target achieved.
Launched the new five-year EnviroAction reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions,
water use and waste to landfill on World Environment Day.

Enhance internal reporting and communication of our EnviroAction performance.

Working with suppliers and customers to reduce environmental impacts throughout our supply chains and the lifecycle of our products.

Integrate our supply chain sustainability management initiatives with Procure Plus (our corporate procurement program).

Commenced discussions with the Procurement Leadership Team about the development of sustainability standards for suppliers and their integration with corporate procurement plans and programs.
Our Flexibles Europe & Americas business commenced sustainability assessments of suppliers in coordination with its procurement team.

Establish corporate sustainability standards
for suppliers and commence the process of integration with corporate procurement plans and programs.

Our areas of focus

Challenges
& opportunities

What we said we would do

FY2010/11 How we are doing

FY2011/12 Objectives

Community

Conducting open and constructive dialogue with our communities.

Ongoing dialogue between sites and their communities.

To be developed.

Supporting local community projects.

Increase the coverage of the estimate of our community investments.

Participation in community projects by all Amcor businesses.
Plans to better estimate our community investment in each region deferred.

To be developed.

Utilising our packaging expertise to address social and environmental needs.

During our 10-year relationship with Earthwatch, 90 co-workers have participated in 44 expeditions.
Discussions commenced with Earthwatch to incorporate packaging sustainability in research projects.

Review partnerships to ensure better alignment with our packaging capabilities and core business.

Our areas of focus

Challenges
& opportunities

What we said we would do

FY2010/11 How we are doing

FY2011/12 Objectives

Workplace

Maintaining a safe workplace – ‘No Injuries’.

5&6

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) and Recordable Case Frequency Rate (RCFR) improvement.

LTIFR improvement of 11% and RCFR improvement of 2.4%.
140+ sites with RCFR of zero.
New global standards for safety, environment and security developed, defining new minimum performance expectations for each of our sites.

LTIFR and RCFR improvement.
Roll out of the OHS&E toolkit.
Develop and launch new Fire Protection Standards and Risk Engineering Guidelines.

Engaging and developing our co-workers.

Consolidate internal corporate sustainability communications.

Responsible Packaging message defined and development of internal communications
materials commenced.
Leadership pulse survey undertaken for the second year in a row.
Engagement surveys undertaken in three of our business groups.
16,151 course modules completed by Amcor co-workers through Amcor Global University.

Roll out internal responsible packaging
and sustainability communications.
Conduct a global engagement survey.

Maintaining a diverse workforce and providing equal opportunity.

Launched the global Talent through Diversity policy.
Amcor Australasia Diversity Council launched.

Develop the global diversity strategy and review current business group diversity activities.

Our areas of focus

Challenges
& opportunities

What we said we would do

FY2010/11 How we are doing

FY2011/12 Objectives

Marketplace

Utilising our life cycle assessment capabilities to offer customers responsible packaging; and supporting our customers’ sustainability objectives.

3&8

955 Voice of the Customer surveys conducted.
657 Lifecycle assessments and carbon footprint analyses conducted.

To be developed.

Promoting the role and benefits of responsible packaging.

Formalise corporate sustainability communications for customer-facing co-workers.

Responsible Packaging message defined; plans to develop external corporate sustainability communications for Sales & Marketing co-workers deferred to FY2011/12.
Ongoing participation in industry forums such as the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and the Global Packaging Project of the Consumer Goods Forum.
Ongoing participation in customer sustainability working groups and 29 presentations on the role
of packaging at industry forums and conferences.

Develop and launch a sustainability communications toolkit for Amcor’s co-workers to use when communicating to external audiences.

Ensuring responsible and ethical procurement.

155 sites participated in Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and six sites completed third party audits.

To be developed.

Our areas of focus

Challenges
& opportunities

What we said we would do

FY2010/11 How we are doing

FY2011/12 Objectives

Economy

Positioning Amcor to realise opportunities for sustainable business growth.

1,2,3,4&8

Continue the integration of the former Alcan Packaging businesses and realise related synergies.

Profit after tax and before significant items up 39% from last year to $570.3 million.

To be developed.

Demonstrating good governance, sensible risk taking and business continuity management.

Gap analysis of our business continuity management (BCM) programs conducted against the British Standard BS25999.

Develop and launch best practice Business Continuity Management and Crisis Communications Toolkits.

Managing climate change related challenges and opportunities.

Participated in the Australian Government dialogue on the introduction of a carbon price
Participated in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol of the World Resources Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Responsible Aluminium forum.

Comments:

It would be interesting if some of this reporting, particularly the workplace focus would be done by Business Sector. I would like to see the metrics regarding diversity in the workplace in Amcor Rigid Plastics, in particular.

Posted by Anonymous on October 18,2011 | 05:57AM

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