Sustainability | Corning

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Leveraging our best-in-the-world capabilities, Corning’s businesses evolve with the world’s needs

Corning is vital to progress, helping the world work, learn, and live sustainably and equitably. We bring teams of highly skilled, passionate Corning employees together with our customers and partners to develop cutting-edge technologies that transform industries and lives for billions of people and drive multiyear growth.

We have always known that what we do today will determine how our world looks tomorrow and beyond. In our long-term vision, people are healthier, better informed, more richly connected with one another. Our 1970 breakthrough invention of low-loss optical fiber helped unleash a communications revolution that continues to change the world today. Our 1972 invention of ceramic substances for catalytic convertors started a new era that is making the air cleaner. Our ongoing improvement of vials allows delivering today and tomorrow’s medical discoveries to save lives where it is most needed. Our 2021 image-capture technologies are helping James Webb Telescope mission to reveal the infrared Universe…

As our people keep making a positive difference in the world, our culture also ensures that we are a company built to last. We know that innovation, done our way, is sustainable only with a deeply engrained moral compass and the trust of our stakeholders. We take an approach to sustainability that addresses key challenges of the moment and evolves to meet the needs of the future.

2023 Sustainability Report
Corning 2023 Sustainability Report

At Corning, we take a long-term approach to sustainability, while at the same time addressing key challenges of the moment and evolving to meet the needs of the future.

At Corning, we take a long-term approach to sustainability, while at the same time addressing key challenges of the moment and evolving to meet the needs of the future.

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We focus on where we can move the needle in two ways. One is through our footprint — how our actions directly affect others in areas such as gender pay equity and carbon emissions from our operations. The other is through our handprint — what we enable others to do through our products and services, such as helping to deliver over 8 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to date through our glass vials.

We focus on where we can move the needle in two ways. One is through our footprint — how our actions directly affect others in areas such as gender pay equity and carbon emissions from our operations. The other is through our handprint — what we enable others to do through our products and services, such as helping to deliver over 8 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to date through our glass vials.

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Product Environmental Impact
Product Environmental Impact

The environmental impact of products based on life cycle assessments (LCAs) is an integral part of product design and decision-making process.

The environmental impact of products based on life cycle assessments (LCAs) is an integral part of product design and decision-making process.

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Discover the environmental impact of Corning products based on conducted LCAs and reviewed by an independent 3rd party:

  • Optical fiber
  • Optical cable
  • Data center solutions
  • Carrier networks solutions

Discover the environmental impact of Corning products based on conducted LCAs and reviewed by an independent 3rd party:

  • Optical fiber
  • Optical cable
  • Data center solutions
  • Carrier networks solutions
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Carbon Reduction Goals
Carbon Reduction Goals

Corning Accelerates Climate Actions by Introducing Carbon Reduction Goals

Corning Accelerates Climate Actions by Introducing Carbon Reduction Goals

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In 2021, using guidance developed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and in alignment with a 1.5°C future scenario, Corning added two more goals to our list of climate commitments:

 

  • Reduce our Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% (absolute basis) by 2028 compared to a 2021 baseline
  • Reduce our relevant Scope 3 emissions by 17.5% (absolute basis) by 2028 compared to a 2021 baseline

In 2021, using guidance developed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and in alignment with a 1.5°C future scenario, Corning added two more goals to our list of climate commitments:

 

  • Reduce our Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% (absolute basis) by 2028 compared to a 2021 baseline
  • Reduce our relevant Scope 3 emissions by 17.5% (absolute basis) by 2028 compared to a 2021 baseline
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Environmental

Environmental

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We're committed to preserving our planet through constant attention to our products and the way we make them. We find ways to lower our energy and natural resource consumption at every step of our operations – in our research labs, our manufacturing plants, our offices.

We use the full power of our innovative ingenuity to protect the environment, paving the way for cleaner air, cleaner water, and healthier generations to come.

We use the full power of our innovative ingenuity to protect the environment, paving the way for cleaner air, cleaner water, and healthier generations to come.

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Social

Social

Social

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She wants to build an airplane that has zero CO2 emissions. She wants to cure cancer.

She wants to make cars safer. She wants to change the world.

As we strengthen our social commitments, we also open opportunities for people. We make our customers more successful and help sustain vibrant communities. And we leverage the power of diverse thinking across our global operations.

As we strengthen our social commitments, we also open opportunities for people. We make our customers more successful and help sustain vibrant communities. And we leverage the power of diverse thinking across our global operations.

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Governance

Governance

Governance

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Sourcing minerals responsibly goes far beyond the minerals themselves.

As we ensure our governance practices reflect our Values, we focus both on our internal processes and on our supply chain operations. We remain ever-vigilant that all people – whether they contribute to Corning directly or indirectly – are treated with dignity and respect.

As we ensure our governance practices reflect our Values, we focus both on our internal processes and on our supply chain operations. We remain ever-vigilant that all people – whether they contribute to Corning directly or indirectly – are treated with dignity and respect.

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See how we're channeling innovation to meet our Sustainability goals

Riverwater Partners Reports Corning “Epitomizes The Word Sustainability”

Our efforts to make the world a better place extends beyond any one issue or location.

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Sustainability Goals

Learn about our environmental, social, and governance-related business practices.

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The US has come a long way since the Clean Air Act

Emissions regulations all around the world have been getting tighter over the last decades. But it's been Europe and China setting the newest standards lately. Can we make vehicles in the US cleaner, too?

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Future Innovator Program

Corning continues to develop the creative minds that will bring inventive thinking to tomorrow’s real-world challenges.

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