• Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, committed to make its packaging 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable

• Starbucks agreed to shift from single-use to reusable packaging, and to conduct unprecedented research to promote customer behavior change, develop reusable container goals, and cut its global packaged waste 50%

• Colgate-Palmolive began shipping the first recyclable toothpaste tube. About 400 million toothpaste tubes are discarded every year in the U.S., and 1.5 billion globally

• YUM! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut), the world’s largest quick service restaurant company, agreed to end polystyrene foam packaging globally. Together with McDonalds and Dunkin’ Donuts, this means 2+ billion fewer Styrofoam containers every year

• Kellogg’s committed to phase out glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant in its wheat and oat supply chains

• Campbell’s and JM Smucker agreed to take steps toward reducing pesticides / presticide risk in supply chains

• General Mills is expanding the regenerative farming commitment it made to us last year. Suppliers already are seeing more pollinators and birds returning to farms

• Morgan Stanley, Gilead Sciences, JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard, and MetLife agreed to substantial commitments on workplace equity and diversity reporting and disclosures. Public reporting is the first step to accountability

• Arizona Public Service announced it would deliver 100% clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050 and end all coal-fired generation

• Duke Energy, the U.S.’s largest utility, Dominion Energy, and Southern Co all set goals to achieve net-zero GHG emissions

• General Electric announced its exit from coal in the new build power market

• Uber committed to become a net-zero platform and to set a Science-Based Target to reduce its emissions to align with Paris

Thank you. These are your victories. This progress is yours.