United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Relevant Sustainable Development Goal

Example Walmart Contributions Include

Location in ESG Report

• Improving food access through our stores, pickup, and delivery, and through food donations.
• Encouraging healthier eating through healthier offerings in our assortment, food labeling, and education.

• Fostering inclusion, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation, and fair processes for employment.
• Sourcing from women-owned businesses and providing additional outreach and support for women-owned businesses.
• Investing in efforts to meaningfully advance gender equity in factories and farms.

• Promoting sustainability in our operations, including through a commitment to power 100% of our operations with renewable sources of energy by 2035.

• Expanding access to jobs and providing ladders for advancement, including through upskilling and education programs, and philanthropic investments in retail sector workforce development.
• Supporting worker dignity and safety in our operations and the supply chain and collaborating to combat forced labor in various sectors through our business and philanthropy.
• Making investments in innovative technology to improve productivity and job experiences.

• Providing disaster relief for natural and human-caused disasters.

• Investing in sustainable package design and recycling and encouraging suppliers to reduce unnecessary plastic packaging, increase packaging recyclability and increase recycled content, and to help us educate customers on reducing, reusing and recycling plastic.
• Addressing food waste by pursuing best practices in our operations, building capacity in the broader food recovery system, working with suppliers upstream and empowering consumers downstream.
• Enhancing the sustainability of products and product supply chains.
• Promoting sustainable chemistry, including in our supply chain.
• Providing funding to support materials innovation, recycling collection and/or sortation infrastructure and consumer education.

• Addressing climate change by working towards achieving our science-based target to reduce greenhouse gases in alignment with the Paris Agreement.
• Engage suppliers in climate action to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons of GHG from the global value chain by 2030.
• Engaging in advocacy and coalitions to promote environmental public policy.

• Sourcing seafood sustainably through our Seafood policy.
• Participating in the Seafood Task Force.

• Reducing deforestation, and working with suppliers to join us through innovative sourcing strategies and the use of technology to increase transparency and supply chain accountability.
• Supporting innovative approaches to regenerative agriculture, sustainable fisheries, forest preservation and waste reduction.