3M Corporate Environmental Goals

Corporate Environmental Goals

Driving progress through Eco-Efficiency

3M has been working to reduce its environmental footprint through corporate environmental goals since 1990. In 2005, 3M completed one set of five-year corporate environmental goals and launched another. 3M's 2005 - 2010 Corporate Environmental Goals, like the 2000 - 2005 Corporate Environmental goals before them, address environmental issues through eco-efficiency and pollution prevention metrics and are complemented by individual business unit goals that incorporated product life cycle management within the unit's strategic plan.

2000 ? 2005 Corporate Environment Goals and Results

	Goal	Results
Reduce volatile air emissions indexed to net sales	25%	58%
Reduce U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Toxic Release Inventory Releases (TRI) indexed to net sales	50%	64%
Improve energy efficiency (energy use indexed to net sales)	20%	27%
Reduce waste indexed to net sales	25%	30%
Double the number of Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) projects from the previous five-year period from 194 to 400 projects	400	1262

2005 ? 2010 Corporate Environment Goals

In 2005, 3M established a new set of five-year corporate environmental goals. By 2010 3M strives to:

• Reduce Volatile Air Emissions by 25%.
• Improve Energy Efficiency by 20%.
• Reduce Waste (NonProduct Output) by 20%
• Complete 800 Pollution Prevention Pays projects.

(All goals are indexed to net sales, except 3P projects. 3M had a TRI releases reduction goal under its 2005 Corporate Environmental Goals program. Since most of 3M's TRI releases are volatile air emissions, these releases are addressed by 3M's volatile air emissions reduction goal under the 2010 Corporate Environmental Goals program.)

Eco-Efficiency Metrics

Here are our most recent EHS Scorecard results detailing critical eco-efficiency performance at 3M operations:

	2005 Base Year	2006	2007	2008	Goal (2010)
VOC (lbs/$million sales)	710	590	520	540	530
TRI Releases (lbs/$million sales) (US only, TRI Releases based on year reported and sales based on year released)	190	170	160	140	N/A
Energy (million BTU/$million sales)	1,330	1,190	1,120	1,070	1,065
Waste (includes offsite recycling) (million lbs/$million sales)	.031	.030	.027	.025	.0248
3P Projects	1262*	364 (in 2006 alone)	438 (in 2007 alone)	616 (in 2008 alone)	800**
3P Savings	$181,900,000*	$52,700,000 (in 2006 alone)	$91,400,000 (in 2007 alone)	$91,000,000 (in 2008 alone)	N/A
3P Pollution Prevented (tons)	516,000*	35,000 (in 2006 alone)	56,600 (in 2007 alone)	61,000 (in 2008 alone)	N/A

Note: Energy, Waste, VOC, and TRI Releases data are normalized to $1 million of net sales.
Note: 1 pound (lb) = .454 kilograms

* Five-year total for 2001-2005
** Five-year total for 2005-2010

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals

3M has two goals to reduce both Kyoto and non-Kyoto greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Goal:	To reduce absolute, worldwide GHG emissions by 50% (from a 1990 base year).
Progress:	As of 2007, 3M has reduced worldwide, absolute GHG emissions by 62% from a 1990 base year.
Goal:	To reduce absolute GHG emissions in the United States by 30 percent by 2007 (from a 2002 base year). This goal was set as part of 3M's participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Climate Leaders program.
Progress:	In 2007, 3M exceeded its goal by reducing U.S., absolute GHG emissions by 60% from a 2002 base year.

	1990	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Goal
U.S. GHG Emissions (Million Metric Tons)		16.3	15.9	11.4	9.6	8.1	6.7	5.1	11.4 (Million Metric Tons