Johnson Controls
CEF Lead Executives
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KATIE MCGINTY
Vice President & Chief Sustainability, Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer for Johnson Controls
Kathleen (Katie for short) helps drive JCI top tier sustainability performance including recognition as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations and AAA MSCI ESG Rating and government policies encouraging smart buildings and energy efficiency. Katie has over 25 years of public and private sector experience. A recognized innovator in clean energy and environmental protection, Ms. McGinty champions technology development, sustainability, and creative policies to solve tough environmental problems. Her public sector career includes serving as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Deputy Assistant to the President (1993-1998), as Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection (2003-2008), and as Chair of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (2004-2008). Ms McGinty currently serves on the boards of the Alliance to Save Energy, the Carnegie Mellon Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, the Energy Futures Initiative, and Goldman Sachs Renewable Power, LLC. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Joseph's University and a law degree from Columbia University. She also served as a Senior Visiting Fellow at TERI in New Delhi, India and is the proud recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including honorary doctorates from Muhlenberg University, Dickinson College, and Clarion State University. She is the Woman of Conservation Lifetime Achievement Awardee of PennFuture, "Global Leader for Tomorrow" (World Economic Forum), "Business Leader of the Year" (Woman's Network for a Sustainable Future), the "Ansel Adams Award" of the National Wildlife Federation, "Woman of the Year" (Women's Council on Energy and the Environment), and Rated #1 Woman in Sustainability by Sustainability Magazine.
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JENNA KUNDE
Global Sustainability Director
Jenna directs enterprise-level sustainability programs, global sustainability reporting, thought leadership and stakeholder engagement. She led the climate-related risks and opportunities assessment with leaders around the company and the Sustainability Materiality Assessment. She is the president of the Global Sustainability Network, the company's sustainability business resource group with members from over 40 countries. She serves on the Global Sustainability Council, the LifeCycle Assessment Working Group, the Zero Landfill Certification review committee, the OpenBlue Healthy Planet Working Group, and the Company Purpose Working Group. She also works with communications to tell our sustainability stories, with finance on our sustainable finance agreements, and with teams around the company to ensure streamlined engagement across diverse business functions to deliver on the enterprise sustainability strategy. Before joining Johnson Controls, Jenna was the executive director of WasteCap. Her work included overseeing over $4 billion in construction and deconstruction reuse and recycling efforts – helping achieve WasteCap's vision to transform waste into resources. She helped develop WasteCapTRACE software and co-authored and taught WasteCap’s USGBC Education Provider Program, Construction Debris Recycling Training, which was featured at Greenbuild. Jenna was named “Recycler of the Year” by Associated Recyclers of WI and one of the Top Women in Solid Waste Management by WasteNews.
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CRAIG SHARMAN
Senior Director, Federal Government Relations
Government relations professional with nearly 20 years of government, association and private sector experience and a unique background in energy, environment, homeland security, tax, trade, and technology policy.
Sustainability Goals
Current Sustainability Goals
Climate: Lead in urgent climate action
Set science-based targets consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios: 1.5°C for scope 1 and 2 emissions and well below 2°C for Scope 3 emissions. Johnson Controls’ science-based targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.
By 2025
- Reduce GHG intensity and energy intensity by 25%
- Reduce water use by 10% at water stressed locations
- 25% of manufacturing locations landfill-free
By 2030
- Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 55%
- Reduce absolute Scope 3 emissions by 16%
By 2040
- Achieve net zero scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions in alignment with The Climate Pledge
- Achieve 100% renewable electricity usage globally
Products and Services: Provide increasingly sustainable products and services
Ongoing
- Integrate sustainable design for products and services identified as having the highest environmental and social impact
- Invest 75% of new product development R&D in climate-related innovation to develop sustainable products and services
By 2030
- Double annual avoided emissions through customer use of Johnson Controls OpenBlue digitally enabled products and services
Supply Chain: Provide preference for suppliers with excellent sustainability ratings and increase work with diverse suppliers
By 2022
- Weigh sustainability equal to other key metrics in supplier performance evaluations
- Provide a preference for suppliers with excellent sustainability ratings
- Create a supplier sustainability council and provide suppliers with training on sustainability best practices and OpenBlue digital tools to meet ambitious public sustainability goals
By 2025
- Increase diverse supplier spend at a rate exceeding revenue growth
- Launch an initiative focused on underserved markets and increase the Johnson Controls spend with women and minority-owned businesses
Employee and External Engagement: Foster a culture of sustainability that engages and attracts people who want to make a difference
By 2025
- Establish sustainability employee engagement groups globally
- Volunteer 2 million hours. Align 80% of volunteer activities with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- 25% reduction in recordable safety incidents
- Lead in global partnerships that significantly increase our sustainability impact. Leverage our impact through at least three global strategic sustainability partnerships. Launch an initiative to educate the next generation of diverse sustainable building industry leaders, in partnership with HBCUs
Governance: Demonstrate our commitment from the top and continue to integrate sustainability into company goals and decision-making
Ongoing
- Ensure a robust sustainability governance process
- Implement new policies and practices to maintain leadership
- Disclose climate-related financial risks
- Include sustainability and diversity goals in senior leaders’ performance assessments, which are linked to executive compensation to drive accountability
Additional commitments (for descriptions visit their commitments webpage)
- Transitioning to Low-GWP Refrigerant
- Three Percent Club
- EP100 Cooling Challenge
- Department of Energy Better Buildings Plants Challenge
- The High-Level Commission on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness
- Copenhagen Communique
- Global Alliance for Energy Productivity
- “We are Still In” Business Commitment to Paris Agreement
- Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- The Climate Group: EP100
- Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy
- UN Global Compact
Latest Sustainability Reporting
Highlights
- Reduced absolute emissions across operations by 42% since 2017; on target to its SBTi-approved science-based target of 55% by 2030.
- Reduced scope 3 emissions by 14% since 2017 (The use of sold products represents over 90% of scope 3 emissions).
- Sourced 41.5% of global electricity from renewable sources.
- Achieved Zero Landfill Certification in 21 locations, representing 23% of manufacturing locations.
- Invested over 90% of new product R&D in climate-related innovation to develop sustainable products and services (surpassing goal of 75%).
- Procured over 70% of its steel purchases in the US and 45% globally from recycled scrap materials using low-carbon electric arc furnace steel-making technology.
- Reached a weight of 21% in supplier scorecards for sustainability, making it equal to cost, quality and delivery in supplier evaluations.
- Since January 2000, performance contracting projects have helped avoid over 37 million metric tons CO2e and are set to save more than $7.8 billion for our customers through energy and operational savings over the project term.
- Expanded the Global Sustainability Network (GSN), its sustainability focused Business Resource Group, to 42 countries.
- Awarded the Platinum EcoVadis Sustainability Rating, the highest distinction granted, ranking in the top one percent of the more than 100,000 companies assessed worldwide.
- Recognized by Corporate Knights as the 12th most sustainable corporation in the world and #1 in its industry
Recent News
2023
Joined the CEF member network July 2023!