ESG Governance
A strong governance program underpins all we do. Guided by our vision to do what’s right for the environment, our people and our communities, we set time-bound, quantifiable goals for performance criteria across environmental performance, social initiative and governance categories according to global standards.
Our Board of Directors reviews and discusses ESG-related issues as a standing agenda item at its regular, quarterly meetings. Its ESG focus includes oversight of climate policies, ESG strategies, business plans, regulatory compliance and ESG performance.
At Pactiv Evergreen, we seek to do what’s right. Our employees are passionate about their work and committed to doing business in an ethical and fair way. Our culture of continuous learning helps keep policies top of mind throughout the year.
New employees receive the Pactiv Evergreen Code of Conduct as part of our onboarding process, and current employees are assigned relevant ethics and compliance training modules based on their responsibilities and location. Topics covered include training on our code of conduct, anti-corruption, harassment and workplace violence prevention, equal opportunity employment, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal controls and cybersecurity. Our hourly workforce receives in-person training at our facilities.
We recognize the importance of an effective security program to protect the company’s employees, assets, products, data, systems, property and reputation from threats. We invest considerable time and resources to strengthen and maintain secure systems across the organization and continue our engagement and commitment to building stakeholder confidence and trust as the cybersecurity risk landscape evolves.
Pactiv Evergreen is committed to protecting and treating responsibly the data entrusted to us buy our customers, vendors, employees and website visitors. We do this through adherence to policies of data classification that protect sensitive information and support compliance with applicable privacy laws, ongoing data mapping and execution of internal controls. Our systems also include policies, processes and controls around business resiliency, risk assessments and records retention. For details on this and more, please consult our Data Security and Privacy Statement and our latest ESG Report.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), or Global Goals, are a universal call to action to protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. To support our Pactiv Evergreen purpose of Packaging a Better Future, we have aligned our ESG strategy and material topics with the UN SDGs through an array of values, activities and policies detailed here.
