The Clorox Company
CEF Lead Executives
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NIKI KING
VP, Head of Sustainability
Niki is responsible for driving Clorox’s Sustainability strategy and initiatives, including reporting and execution against the company’s ambitious ESG goals. She leads an ESG Core Team made up of ESG leaders and subject matter experts across Clorox and is responsible for engaging a broad set of internal and external stakeholders to ensure Clorox continues as a leader in the ESG space. Throughout her career, Niki held roles at companies including Campbell Soup Company, Brilliant Earth, Novo Nordisk and Unilever where she developed and executed sustainability strategies focused on reducing sustainability risks and impacts across the value chain and advancing corporate reputation through ESG focused stakeholder engagement. Outside of work, you will find Niki in the kitchen cooking or outside hiking, gardening, bird watching and hunting bugs with her grandchildren. She earned a B.A. degree in Social Sciences, a M.S. degree in Business Management and a Certificate in Organizational Leadership from Thomas Edison State University.
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ANDREA RUDERT
Associate Director, ESG Stakeholder Engagement
Andrea drives The Clorox Company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and communications to enhance its reputation among employees and external stakeholders, including investors, customers, consumers and NGOs. As part of her role, she oversees the company’s ESG measurement and reporting practices, ensuring key ESG data is shared with investors, and manages the company's commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). Prior to joining Clorox in 2015, Andrea worked at Edelman to help Fortune 500 companies develop their corporate citizenship programs. She also co-founded a social enterprise that helps women purchase products from companies with positive gender equality policies and practices. Andrea began her career in equity research at Deutsche Bank. Andrea holds an MBA in Finance and Social Innovation and Impact from New York University, a BA in economics from Wellesley College and a certificate in digital media marketing from New York University.
Sustainability Goals
Ongoing goals
- Continue to source 100% electricity from renewable energy in the U.S. and Canada.
2025 goals
- Achieve 100% zero-waste-to-landfill plants globally.
- Achieve 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging.
2030 goals
- Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 50% and absolute scope 3 GHG emissions from purchased goods and services and use of sold products by 25% from a 2020 base year (SBTi approved).
- Achieve 100% zero-waste-to-landfill facilities globally.
- Double post-consumer recycled plastic in packaging (+50% by 2025) vs. 11% 2018 baseline
- Achieve a 50% combined reduction in virgin plastic and fiber packaging per case of product sold vs. 2018 baseline.
2050 goal
- Achieve net-zero emissions. At minimum, we plan to reduce at least 90% of all emissions from our operations and our upstream and downstream value chain, with up to 10% neutralized through carbon removals for those emissions that we are unable to eliminate.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
(September 2023)
Highlights
- Achieved a 65% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions, surpassing 2030 goal of 50% compared to a 2020 baseline.
- Achieved zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWtL) status for 80% of manufacturing plants.
- Increased the percentage of recycled or responsibly sourced certified virgin fiber used in purchased packaging 99% in 2022.
- Achieved a 78% response rate from priority suppliers for the 2022 CDP Supply Chain questionnaire.
- Achieved pay equity for gender globally and for race/ethnicity in the U.S. based on our annual pay equity analysis for nonproduction employees after making salary adjustments
- Tied Executives’ individual performance assessments and short-term incentive awards to ESG goal achievements.
Recent News
2023
Rejoined the CEF member network in December 2023!
2021
Committed to achieving net-zero emissions for Scopes 1-3 by 2050, with interim SBTi-approved targets of 50% reduction across Scopes 1 and 2 and a 25% reduction in Scope 3 by 2030 (2020 baseline).
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A major new coalition, “America is All In,” launched to mobilize bold climate ambitions nationally and uphold the federal government’s commitment to climate action—specifically to cut U.S. emissions in half or more by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Co-led by UN Special Climate Envoy Michael Bloomberg, the coalition effectively merges We Are Still In and America’s Pledge and is the most expansive effort ever assembled to support climate action in the U.S., involving U.S. businesses, cities, states, tribal nations, schools, and faith groups, health care organizations, and cultural institutions. Large companies involved include: 3M, Adobe, Amazon, Apple, ADM, Autodesk, BASF, Best Buy, Cargill, Carrier Corporation, The Clorox Company, Coca-Cola, Danone N.A., Dell Technologies, Dow Inc., DSM N.A., DuPont, eBay, Edison International, Facebook, Gap, General Mills, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Inc., IKEA U.S., Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Kellogg Company, LafargeHolcim, Levi Strauss & Co., L’Oréal, Mars Incorporated, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Mondelez International, National Grid, Nestle, NIKE, Novozymes, PG&E Corporation, PepsiCo, Salesforce, Siemens, Sony Corporation of America, Starbucks, Steelcase, Target, Tiffany & Co., Trane Technologies, Verizon, VF Corporation, Walmart, and Waste Management. (February 2021)
The Renewable Energy Buyers Association (REBA) issued a statement signed by 36 companies — including Amazon, Clorox, Facebook, GM, Google, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s, Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Unilever — proposing federal policy priorities to help accelerate the adoption of a customer-centric clean energy transition. Priorities include: 1) expanding and enhancing wholesale energy markets; 2) harmonizing clean-energy procurement and standards; 3) supporting the innovation and commercialization of energy R&D. (January 2021)
2020
The World Wildlife Fund partnered with The Recycling Partnership and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to launch the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative effort that brings together public-private stakeholders across the plastics value chain to create a path towards a circular economy for plastic in the United States. A group of more than 60 organizations have joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, including the Clorox Company, Kimberly-Clark, Target, Unilever, and Walmart. (August 2020)
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2019
The American Cleaning Institute announced “Our Future Is Clean,” an initiative to highlight how its more than 140 member companies across the cleaning industry — including BASF, Clorox, Dow Chemical, Ecolab, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever — are driving action to help create a sustainable future and promote consumers’ health and well-being. The initiative will launch during National Cleaning Week 2020. (2019)