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Top Industry Score in Sustainability for 9th Year
Abbott recognized for ESG performance on DJSI; releases 2020 Sustainability Report Summary.
The focus of our 2030 Sustainability Plan is to advance greater health access and affordability for more people in more places, with a goal to improve the lives of more than 3 billion people every year by decade's end. That's 1 billion more than we reach today – which demonstrates both the ambition of our commitment, and the scale of the effort that will be needed today and in the years ahead.
To get there, we'll need to transform the future of healthcare through intentional, continuous efforts, across our company. We'll need to measure our progress and performance, and elevate the work we do, every day and around the world.
That's why we're proud to achieve the highest score out of 84 companies in our industry in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, also called the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). We've led our sector – Health Care Equipment & Supplies – for nine consecutive years and have been included on the broader DJSI for 17 consecutive years.
Considered one of the most prestigious global benchmarks for corporate sustainability performance, the DJSI was announced on Nov. 12. The DJSI tracks the performance of leading companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, and provides stakeholders, such as investors, insight on how a company's sustainability practices are generating long-term societal and shareholder value.
2020 Sustainability Report Summary Highlights ESG Progress
We recently released our 2020 Sustainability Report Summary, which builds on the comprehensive disclosures shared earlier in the year in our full Global Sustainability Report. The summary provides a high-level overview of our performance in our key areas of focus, including:
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