Climate
Business context
Climate change can affect people, communities, ecosystems and economies in ways that also create risks for our business. Extreme weather, water scarcity and changing environmental conditions can disrupt raw material availability, manufacturing and logistics. At the same time, evolving regulations, energy markets and stakeholder expectations can affect costs, reporting requirements, product design and material choices.
Addressing these challenges also creates opportunities to strengthen our business. Improving energy and resource efficiency can help control operating costs. Collaborating with suppliers can improve visibility into climate-related risks and support a more adaptable supply chain. Incorporating climate considerations into product, packaging and operational decisions can help us innovate, build resilience and respond to evolving retail partner and consumer expectations, while helping position Clorox for long-term growth in a changing world.
Goals and commitments
Our climate goals are integrated into our IGNITE strategy and focus on the emissions sources most relevant to our operations and value chain. Against a 2020 baseline, we aim to:
- Reduce absolute scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50% by 2030.
- Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services and the direct use of sold products 25% by 2030.
- Maintain 100% renewable electricity for our U.S. and Canada operations, a goal first achieved in 2021.
- Maintain progress against prior goal periods with our commitment to continue energy-efficiency improvements to achieve or outperform 1.44 megawatt-hours of energy consumed per thousand cases sold, based on 2018 baseline levels.
Our scopes 1 and 2 and targeted scope 3 emissions-reduction goals have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. These near-term goals support our ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Management approach and initiatives
We manage climate-related risks and opportunities, while advancing our climate goals, through a robust governance approach, enterprise risk management, business continuity planning, operational improvements, renewable electricity, supplier engagement, and product and packaging innovation. Our approach is designed to integrate climate considerations into business planning and decisions across our value chain in the following areas:
Climate risk management
Climate-related risks are considered through our enterprise risk management, business continuity, supplier engagement and product-development processes. We assess potential impacts from extreme weather, material availability, energy markets, changing regulations and other physical and transition risks to inform planning and decision-making.
Climate-related disclosures
In 2022, we published a Climate Action Plan that outlines our approach to achieving our science-based targets. We disclose progress toward our targets, as well as information about our climate governance, strategy, and risk management, through our annual reporting in alignment with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework, available in our Integrated Annual Report and on our Sustainability Data Hub. We calculate our emissions using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and obtain independent assurance over our scope 1 and scope 2 GHG gas emissions inventory.
Operational emissions and energy efficiency
Improving energy efficiency has long been a focus of our operational strategy. We continue to invest in energy-efficient equipment, lighting, heating and cooling systems, facility assessments and manufacturing practices to help reduce energy consumption and emissions while improving operating performance and managing energy-related costs.
Examples of site-level efficiencies include:
- Our Atlanta plant uses acoustic technology to identify and repair compressed-air leaks, reducing energy use from its compressed-air system. We are evaluating the potential to apply this approach at other locations.
- At our Kingsford operations, heat generated through the conversion of renewable wood scrap into char is used to dry raw materials and finished charcoal briquets and to power steam boilers, reducing the electricity those plants need to draw from the grid.
Renewable electricity
We maintain 100% renewable electricity for our U.S. and Canada operations through virtual power purchase agreements and renewable energy certificates.
Our renewable electricity portfolio includes two 12-year virtual power purchase agreements. The first, a 70-megawatt agreement, began delivering renewable electricity in 2021. The second, a 47-megawatt agreement associated with an Oklahoma wind farm, began producing renewable electricity for Clorox in January 2023. These agreements support the expansion of renewable energy infrastructure while helping us manage our market-based scope 2 emissions.
Value-chain emissions and supplier engagement
Most of our GHG emissions occur outside our own operations. For this reason, we focus our scope 3 efforts on purchased goods and services – category 1 – and the direct use of sold products – category 11, the categories covered by our science-based target.
In fiscal year 2025, we launched Clorox Climate Partners, our supplier engagement program designed to accelerate supplier climate action. Centered on supplier collaboration, the program offers guidance, practical tools and customized engagement tracks to meet suppliers where they are on their climate journeys. We work with suppliers with the highest manufacturing impacts to our business to create site-specific energy reduction plans. We’re also piloting the exchange of product-level carbon footprint data, which will enable us to embed carbon footprint insights into business decisions such as packaging redesign and formulation changes, while identifying priority emissions-reduction opportunities.
Through this collaboration, we are gaining greater visibility into supplier action plans, supporting alignment with our climate goals and helping advance energy efficiency, cost management and innovation across our value chain. At the same time, we’re setting them on a path toward boosting energy efficiency, lowering costs and sparking innovation for better products, while also strengthening our ability to meet emerging regulations and stakeholder expectations.
Logistics and distribution
We integrate climate and sustainability considerations into logistics through transportation network improvements, increased use of rail where appropriate, incorporation of the U.S. EPA’s SmartWay® certification and ranking into our carrier evaluation process, and engagement with transportation providers. These efforts can help reduce fuel use and emissions while managing transportation costs and strengthening the resilience of our distribution network.
Recent progress
As of fiscal year 2026:
- Renewable electricity: We maintained 100% renewable electricity for our U.S. and Canada operations in calendar year 2025.
- Operational emissions: We maintained performance beyond our 50% reduction target for combined scope 1 and market-based Scope 2 emissions through 2024, compared with our 2020 baseline.
- Value-chain emissions: Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services and the direct use of sold products were 18% below the updated 2020 baseline in 2024.
- Supplier engagement: We engaged 84% of key suppliers through Clorox Climate Partners on emissions measurement, reduction plans and shared value-chain priorities that can advance Clorox’s scope 3 emissions reduction target.
Last updated
October 5, 2026