Sustainability
Our approach to sustainability
Our approach to sustainability
Sustainability shapes how we operate and grow. It is embedded in our policies and strategy, guiding how we pursue opportunities, meet our commitments, and improve our performance. Our approach to sustainability enables long‑term value creation by helping customers decarbonise, strengthening our resilience in a lower‑carbon economy, meeting society’s expectations, and progressing our ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Sustainability is central to our corporate strategy and business model, enabling us to create long‑term value for all stakeholders by delivering strong returns, remaining relevant to our customers, meeting society’s expectations, and advancing our ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Delivering real progress on sustainability
Delivering real progress on sustainability
In a hard‑to‑abate industry, we are reducing emissions, advancing safer and more responsible operations, and developing solutions that help our customers lower their environmental impact. Our focus is on people, communities and the environment as we build a safer and more sustainable future.
Strong governance and accountability
Strong governance and accountability
Sustainability governance is embedded across the organisation. Oversight is provided at Board level through the Safety and Sustainability Committee, with executive accountability led by the President – Australia Pacific and Sustainability, who is responsible for developing and overseeing Orica’s sustainability and climate change strategy.
Recognitions
Recognitions
Orica champions a more sustainable industry.
Understanding what matters most
Understanding what matters most
Our materiality assessment identifies the issues that matter most to our stakeholders and are most critical to Orica's long‑term resilience, helping guide our sustainability priorities and strategic focus. Material topics identified in FY25 is displayed on the right.
- Safety
- Financial performance
- Business resilience
- Environmental risk and compliance
- Cyber security, data privacy and AI
- Climate change, transition and adaptation
- License to operate
- Innovation, technology and sustainable solutions
- Water
- First Nations engagement and cultural heritage
- Human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Talent attraction, retention and development
- Nature and biodiversity
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals
We support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are most material to our operations, and where we can drive measurable, long-term impact. Our priority SDGs reflect the areas where efforts contribute most directly to sustainable development. In FY25, these were identified as follows, as displayed on the right.
- SDG 3: good health and wellbeing
Through safety leadership, risk management and a focus on the health and wellbeing of our people and communities. - SDG 8: decent work and economic growth
By promoting safe, inclusive and productive workplaces, and supporting economic growth across the regions where we operate. - SDG 9: industry, innovation and infrastructure
By applying engineering expertise, advancing technology solutions, and partnering to innovate in a hard‑to‑abate sector. - SDG 12: responsible consumption and production
Through product stewardship, circularity initiatives and efficiency improvements across our operations and value chain. - SDG 13: climate action
Through our decarbonisation pathway, emissions‑reduction projects and commitment to net zero by 2050.
Latest report
Latest report
Our sustainability reports and supplementary materials provide further details about our performance.