CF Industries Publishes 2020 Annual Report & Sustainability Report, Launches Brand Refresh Recognizing Commitment to Clean En...
March 23 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) today published its 2020
Annual Report and 2020 Sustainability Report and introduced a
modernized Company brand, each of which reinforces the Company’s
commitment to its clean energy strategy.
Highlights
- CF Industries has released its 2020 Annual Report and 2020
Sustainability Report together, reflecting Company’s commitment to
evaluating financial performance alongside sustainability
performance
- 2020 Sustainability Report focuses on Company’s comprehensive
environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) goals, and
includes reporting to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI),
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) standards and
guidelines
- Company has introduced a brand refresh and introduced a new
brand mark representing a stylized ammonia molecule, which is the
base product that CF Industries manufactures and a clean fuel in
its own right
- Company continues to advance its plans to support the clean
energy economy
“For 75 years, CF Industries has helped feed the crops that feed
the world,” said Tony Will, president and chief executive officer,
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “As our Annual Report and
Sustainability Report make clear, we are focused on building on
this legacy by providing clean energy to help the world
decarbonize, supporting and developing our employees and
communities, and enhancing product stewardship efforts.”
2020 Sustainability
Report
CF Industries’ 2020 Sustainability Report, Clean Energy for a
Sustainable World, covers the company’s steadfast commitment to
sustainability and progress within crucial ESG areas. The report
can be accessed at sustainability.cfindustries.com.
The report focuses on recently announced ESG goals, covering
critical environmental, societal, and workforce imperatives. These
commitments include a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions across
its global network to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and
an intermediate goal of a 25% reduction in CO2e emissions intensity
by 2030. The Company’s ESG goals also encompass other issues
important to CF Industries and its stakeholders, including
diversity and inclusion, safety, food security, nutrient management
and community involvement.
Highlights from the report include:
- Reporting on a comprehensive basis and disclosing to all
standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), reporting to
the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework,
and, for the first time this year, reporting to the Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) guidelines.
- Achieving the company’s lowest year-end recordable incident
rate ever, ending the year with only four recordable injuries and
zero lost-time injuries across our network.
- Successful implementation of a wide range of safety measures
for COVID-19, along with various employee wellness benefits and
community initiatives.
- Updated core values, including a more explicit expression of
the Company’s longstanding commitment to inclusion and diversity,
and joined Business Roundtable’s Multiple Pathways Initiative to
improve hiring and talent management to improve equity and
diversity and workplace culture.
- An updated philanthropy strategy that targets volunteer and
financial resources across four philanthropic focus areas that
support the Company’s values and align with the business:
Environmental Sustainability, Healthy Food Access, STEM Education
and Awareness, and Local Community Advancement.
New Modernized Brand
Identity
In conjunction with the publishing of its 2020 Annual and
Sustainability Reports, CF Industries has introduced a modern
refresh of its core brand elements that reflect its commitment to a
cleaner future. The company’s new logo includes a mark representing
a stylized ammonia molecule, which is the base product that CF
Industries manufactures and which is central to its clean energy
strategy.
The Company also released updated vision, mission and strategy
statements. These revolve around clean energy, providing further
definition to the Company’s direction and focus in the years
ahead.
“The launch of our new brand identity is more than a change in
symbol, it is a symbol of change,” said Tony Will, president and
chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “Our
commitment to decarbonize the world’s largest ammonia production
network will transform CF Industries and position our Company at
the forefront of clean energy supply. Our new brand communicates
this focus and our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to
accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy.”
Clean Energy Strategy
Update
The Company continues to advance its plans to support the global
hydrogen and clean energy economy, which is expected to grow
significantly over the next decade. Key initiatives in development
include a green ammonia project at the Donaldsonville Nitrogen
Complex and carbon dioxide capture and sequestration and other
carbon abatement projects across the Company's network.
About CF Industries Holdings,
Inc.
At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed
and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe
and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined
capital and corporate management, we are on a path to decarbonize
our ammonia production network – the world’s largest – to enable
green and blue hydrogen and nitrogen products for energy,
fertilizer, emissions abatement and other industrial activities.
Our nine manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and
the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and
distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities
enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our
unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean
energy. CF Industries routinely posts investor announcements and
additional information on the company’s website at
www.cfindustries.com and encourages those interested in the company
to check there frequently.
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