Environmental, Social & Governance Reporting
Creating Shared Value
We aspire to become a regenerative company – helping to renew people and planet through our business.
Shared value – addressing societal issues in ways that create value for our business and stakeholders – lies at the heart of Walmart’s enterprise strategy and our approach to ESG issues.
We prioritize the ESG issues that offer the greatest potential for Walmart to create shared value. Based on our most recent ESG priority assessment, we have organized our ESG priorities into four leadership themes represented below: Opportunity, Sustainability, Community, and Ethics & Integrity.
Download Our 2022 ESG Summary
Transparency cultivates trust. Read about our approach to ESG and FY2022 highlights in the Annual Summary. Dive deep on specific topics with our ESG briefs.
Year At A Glance FY2022
Opportunity
>$17 average hourly wage in the U.S. (as of Q1 FY2023)
Sustainability
23.2% reduction in Scopes 1 and 2 emissions (2021 vs. 2015 baseline)
Community
>5.1K COVID-19 vaccination sites supported across all U.S. Walmart and Sam’s Club pharmacies
Ethics & Integrity
>2M associates trained in ethics
Opportunity
>$13.3B in goods and services sourced from ~2.6K diverse suppliers for our U.S. businesses
Sustainability
>4.5K of our suppliers engaged in Project GigatonTM since 2017, reporting a cumulative >574M metric tons of CO2e reduced or avoided
Community
7B pounds of food donated to Feeding America food banks since 2006
Ethics & Integrity
27% women; 18% racially/ethnically diverse Board of Directors
Opportunity
>72K associates enrolled in Live Better U since program launched in 2018
Sustainability
Committed to help protect, more sustainably manage, or restore, by 2030, at least 50M acres of land and 1M square miles of ocean
Community
>$1.5B in cash and in-kind donations globally provided from Walmart and the Walmart Foundation
Ethics & Integrity
Provided anti-corruption training to >77.4K associates
Opportunity
$35M invested of the $100 million Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity commitment
Sustainability
58% global private-brand packaging estimated to be recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable
Community
>356K hours volunteered to local causes
Ethics & Integrity
Mitigating algorithmic bias in workforce-related decisions through Walmart's Digital Citizenship team and as a member of the Data & Trust Alliance
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