Combating Climate Change
We’ve Joined the Fight
See our carbon emissions reduction and renewable energy goals.
We are committed to reducing our carbon impact on the environment while continuing to manufacture our products, serve our customers and create value for all our stakeholders. We have invested in new software and systems to improve and streamline environmental data collection processes, capture global data, enhance future reporting, and better evaluate opportunities. This data is key to helping us understand our direct carbon emission impacts and to set environmental goals.
Our Goals
In 2021, we set goals to reduce our absolute Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 30% by the year 2030, and to offset 50% of our electricity usage with renewable sources by 2030. We adjusted our baseline year from 2020 global operations, to year-end 2022, to best reflect the Company’s operating footprint after the separation of the Cabinets business in December 2022.
Progress
As of 2025, four Fortune Brands sites are using renewable energy from on-premises solar power panels.
Additionally, in 2024, Fortune Brands Innovations identified and helped fund a renewable energy project by entering into a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA). See our September 2024 post about the VPPA to learn more.
By supporting a renewable energy project, we will offset electricity usage with a renewable source and contribute to adding long-term green energy options to the existing supply of energy in the United States. We feel our goals and path to achieve them are both appropriate and realistic for our industry. As we work toward these targets, we will also remain open as new or more options to reduce carbon emissions become available in the future. Learn more in our latest ESG Report.
Carbon Mitigation Strategy
Our carbon mitigation strategy includes:
- Using renewable energy: We look for smart opportunities to use on-premises solar panels. In 2023, we used 1.4 million kilowatt hours of electricity generated from on-premises solar panels. We have also signed a VPPA.
- Reducing our own energy usage: The majority of our locations have switched to energy-efficient lighting, and we routinely check and repair our equipment to ensure it is running efficiently. We also invest in new equipment that is more energy efficient. While we have already taken many actions to run more energy-efficient operations, we are on the lookout for more opportunities to conserve energy.
- Producing products that help: Manufacturing energy-efficient Therma-Tru doors and using recycled inputs as the main components for our Fiberon PE composite decking is part of how we can help to mitigate carbon emissions. Additionally, our products that save water also have the ability to contribute to reducing emissions.
- Improving product packaging and logistics: Our North Las Vegas site utilizes right-sized packaging, which minimizes box sizes for shipping, resulting in freight savings, reduced material usage and reduced carbon footprint.
- Efficient operations: Some of our sites have achieved environmental certifications. Our Changshu, China, manufacturing facility has achieved the Jiangsu Provinical Green Factory certification, recognizing a commitment to sustainable operations and energy efficiency, waste and carbon footprint reduction, regulatory compliance, and circular economy practices. This certification is awarded to the top 1% of manufacturing sites in one of China’s most industrialized provinces. Other sites have achieved the internationally recognized ISO 14001, representative of a standard for environmental management systems and their implementation that enables environmental performance with similar criteria to those noted above.
New Renewable Energy at FBIN
We are excited that in 2024, our production facility in Wolseley, South Africa, began using on-premises renewable energy. We expect the solar panels to generate over 40% of this site’s electricity. Also, our Las Vegas site recently installed solar panels expected to begin generating renewable energy in 2025.
Leveraging the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
Starting in 2021, we have been using the TCFD framework to discuss Fortune Brands’ climate-related risks and opportunities. The framework includes guidance on governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. View our TCFD index in our ESG Report.