Kimberly-Clark
CEF Lead Executives
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LISA MORDENList Item 1
Chief Sustainability Officer
Lisa oversees Kimberly-Clark’s efforts to tackle pressing environmental challenges, such as reducing single-use plastics, minimizing carbon emissions, and improving water usage throughout the company’s operations and value chain. Her leadership will also focus on decreasing the company's reliance on forests and expanding the use of renewable energy sources. Over the course of her 20+ year career with K-C, Lisa has also served in various environmental, marketing and sustainability-related positions, focusing on integration of principles of corporate social responsibility and sustainability into K-C’s strategies with the objective of generating business and social value.
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TAMERA FENSKE
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Tamera has global responsibilities for procurement, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, safety, and sustainability, as well as the company's Global Nonwovens division. Tamera joins Kimberly-Clark with deep experience leading manufacturing and supply chain operations. Most recently, she served as senior vice president of manufacturing and supply chain for 3M Company where she led the end-to-end supply chain for the company in the U.S. and Canada across all its business groups and markets.
During her 22-year tenure with 3M, Fenske held various senior roles leading manufacturing, supply chain and operations for each of the company's global businesses, as well as plant management. She brings additional prior experience from Marathon Ashland Petroleum and Dow Chemical Company.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
Highlights
- Reduced absolute GHG Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 40.9% and absolute Scope 3 emissions by 19.3% (2015 baseline).
- Improved energy efficiency by 10.4% (2015 baseline), and deployed over 150 energy conservation initiatives and building efficiency improvements at manufacturing sites globally in 2023, yielding approximately 30,200 MTCO2e in GHG emissions reductions.
- Sourced over 1,270,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable electricity in 2023, which represented 33.1% of the total electricity purchased from local grids.
- Reduced its nature forest fiber footprint by 39% (2011 baseline).
- Invested over $40 million to develop more sustainable products from alternative fiber sources over the past decade.
- Diverted 93% of its manufacturing waste from landfills in 2023.
- Achieved a 16.4% plastic footprint reduction (2019 baseline).
- Reduced water consumption at water-stressed regions by 52.8% (2015 baseline).
- Hosted its first “Climate Connect,” a forum bringing key suppliers together to share ideas, innovative strategies, and best practices
to assist suppliers to independently assess their approach and implement their own practices to reduce emissions across our supply chain.
Recent News
2025
Rejoined the CEF member network in January 2025!
2022
Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty — 85 organizations, including global businesses, financial institutions, and NGOs, have announced a common vision for an effective and ambitious Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution, which is expected to determine the trajectory of the plastic pollution crisis for generations to come. The endorsing organizations agree that the treaty must support progress on a number of key outcomes including:
- The reduction of plastic production and use through a circular economy approach;
- Increased circulation of necessary plastic;
- And the prevention and remediation of hard-to-abate micro- and macro-plastic leakage into the environment.
The coalition was organized by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and WWF and includes CEF members 3M, Kimberly-Clark, PepsiCo, and Unilever. (Sept 2022)
2021
Transparent 2021: Annual ReSource: Plastic Progress Report (World Wildlife Fund) —Outlines progress made by the eight companies in the ReSource: Plastic program—including CEF members Kimberly-Clark, McDonald’s, and Procter & Gamble—in tackling plastic waste. From 2018 to 2020, the five Principal program members—including McDonald’s and Procter & Gamble—increased their use of recycled content from 7.8% to 9.6% (124,000 metric tons). The report outlines opportunities and recommendations for corporate collective action and investment, and calls for a global treaty on plastic pollution. (Dec 2021)
A Compass
for Just and Regenerative Business (Forum for the Future, WBCSD) — Defines key outcomes of a “just and regenerative” business approach.
It offers a
“Business Transformation Compass” to help leaders understand their business’s current mindset and redefine their sustainability ambitions, as well as
practical guidance
to help companies transform business functions while addressing social and environmental challenges. CEF members
Kimberly-Clark
and Unilever provided input for the report. (Nov 2021)
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Signed a PPA with Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust to construct a new wind farm in Scotland
that will supply several Kimberly-Clark brands with renewable energy. The wind farm will make almost 80% of Kimberly-Clark’s UK electrical power consumption renewable. (Nov 2021)
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Joined the Canada Plastics Pact, an initiative to drive toward a circular plastics economy in Canada. It also
pledged to use 100% recyclable, reusable, or compostable
plastic packaging; recycle or compost 50% of plastic packaging; and use a
minimum average of 30% recycled content
in all plastic packaging by 2025. (Aug 2021)
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The U.S. Plastics Pact
— The Pact, led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund,
published its “Roadmap to 2025,” designed to unite nearly 100 stakeholders across the plastics value chain—including Target,
Kimberly-Clark, Nestlé, and
Unilever—hit its 4 plastic-waste targets, and ultimately enable a circular economy for plastic packaging by 2025. The roadmap includes details on mandatory reporting, actions stakeholders can take, and specific outcomes for designated time frames. (June 2021)
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The World Wildlife Fund launched
"Forests Forward,"
a new program to help companies deliver nature-based strategies across 3 pillars: (1) landscape opportunities for climate, nature, and communities, (2) responsible supply chains, (3) and better forest management. Corporate program partners include
HP, Kimberly-Clark, Lowe’s, IKEA, and
Williams-Sonoma. (June 2021)
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Announced a partnership with biotech company RWDC Industries to develop marine-degradable personal care products.
(June 2021)
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Announced 100% of its tissue manufacturing is now powered by wind energy. It also announced 100% of pulp is sourced from responsibly managed forests, and 100% of fiber suppliers are Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®)-certified. (May 2021)
WaterLOUPE 2.0 (Kimberly-Clark) — An open-source tool to help communities analyze local risks to freshwater resources and create sustainable mitigation strategies. Co-developed between Kimberly-Clark and Dutch research institute Deltares, the WaterLOUPE dashboard depicts water scarcity risks for an entire watershed due to the impacts of climate change, population growth, and other factors over a 30-year time horizon. This updated version adds a scenario modeling capability, which helps users quantify water shortage, risk reduction, and economic consequences of potential solutions and choose the best strategy to close the water scarcity gap. (March 2021)
Ethisphere released its 2021 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. CEF members recognized include (March 2021):
- 3M
- ADM
- Aptiv
- CBRE
- Dell Technologies
- Ecolab
- General Motors
- HanesBrands
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Honeywell
- HP
- International Paper
- Kaiser Permanente
- Kimberly-Clark
- Mastercard
- Microsoft
- PepsiCo
- VF Corporation
- Visa
- Waste Management
2020
Kimberly-Clark announced its 2030 sustainability strategy, which includes plans to advance the well-being of 1 billion people, reduce its plastics footprint by 50%, cut absolute GHG emissions by 50%, reduce its water footprint in water-stressed areas by 50%, and reduce its natural forest fiber footprint by 50% (by 2025). (July 2020)
Kimberly-Clark brand Kleenex will transition to plastic-free tissue boxes by August 2020. (July 2020)
Included on Ethisphere 2020 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. (March 2020)
2019
Received high scores on the WWF “2019 Timber Scorecard," which scores 122 UK brands on their sustainable timber sourcing policies and performance. (July 2019)
Partnered with nonprofit XPRIZE to create the Future of Forests Impact Roadmap, which identifies 10 breakthroughs for achieving a better future for forests and humankind. The roadmap is based on a literature review of existing forest research, interviews with dozens of experts in the field, and engaged stakeholders from more than 90 organizations. (March 2019)