- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Climate-related risks and opportunities
Circularity
Product and packaging design
Waste elimination and reduction
Resource Use
Environmental impacts of products
Water use and management
Chemicals
Biodiversity
We center our efforts and reporting on our sustainability and governance priorities — the issues that are most important to the long-term health of our business and stakeholders across our value chain.
Engaging in sustainable practices helps fortify our business as we seek to drive growth for the future. We are committed to and accountable for reporting our progress and continually examining issues that are most important to our business.
Target conducts sustainability and governance priority assessments regularly by engaging key stakeholders and seeking their insights to identify, understand and validate key issues affecting our business.
Product and packaging design
Waste elimination and reduction
Environmental impacts of products
Water use and management
Chemicals
Biodiversity
Compensation, benefits and well-being
Workplace health and safety
Talent and development
Community impact
Access to products and services
Public policy and civic engagement
Data privacy and cybersecurity
Product safety and quality
Sourcing and manufacturing practices
Human rights
Animal welfare
The Sustainability and Governance priorities identified and categorized in this assessment are increasingly interconnected and can often impact each other. As such, they should not be viewed in isolation.
The following is an overview of our stakeholder engagement during fiscal year 2023. This is an illustrative list of topics discussed.
All vendors
Business Partner Code of Conduct
Capability building
Standards of Vendor Engagement (SOVE)
Trainings and workshops
Vendor portal
Vendor surveys
Merchandise vendors
Annual assessment
Annual meeting
Regular ongoing meetings
Topical calls as requested
Vendor think tank
Human rights
Labor practices
Materials and resource use, and traceability
Product and packaging design
Setting and measuring science-based targets
Transparency and reporting
Help our vendors strengthen their social and environmental performance through programs and capability building, and advise them on establishing and executing grievance mechanisms and monitoring performance
Make training and guidebooks available on our expectations for supply chain human rights, ethical business and environmental standards available in multiple languages
Support our vendors’ ability to meet responsible design and material commitments
Engage vendor think tank to address challenges and cultivate new ideas
Partner visits and community dialogues
Collaborations to advance shared priorities
Contributions through community partnerships and volunteerism
Philanthropic investments
Trust-based philanthropic approach
Select topical engagement
Memberships and coalitions
Participation in conferences and forums
Strategic relationships and consultation on priority issues
Climate-related risks and opportunities
Community impact
Efficiency and energy management
Environmental impacts of products
Greenhouse gas emissions
Human rights
Labor practices
Materials and resource use
Philanthropy
Workplace health and safety
Continue our iterative learning process through listening, engagement and collaborations to guide our strategy and goal-setting on our sustainability and governance priorities
Focus investments, philanthropy, human and in-kind support to communities Target serves, including across our stores, global supply chain and logistics (GSCL) facilities, HQ offices in the U.S. and India and in our sourcing communities
Direct legislative advocacy as Target.
Informational discussions with governmental officials.
Advocacy through trade associations and/or in partnership with other companies.
Grassroots advocacy.
Creating value in a global economy
Employee scheduling
Investments in our team and communities
Mitigating the impact of organized retail crime
Payments
Protecting privacy
Securing Target’s owned brands worldwide
Supporting our Target Forward efforts
Intake and assess policies with both enterprise-wide and community specific impact
Advocate at all levels of government to help shape constructive policy solutions that impact our team members, business, industry and communities
Corporate website and newsletter
Face-to-face interactions in our stores
Focus groups
Guest insights
Community impact
Environmental impacts of products
Materials and resource use
Non-discrimination
Product and packaging design
Responsible marketing
Elevate and expand how we share our inclusivity and sustainability work in stores and through our digital channels
Increase access to sustainable products and experiences through new and enhanced store and digital channels
Offer our guests the opportunity to direct our giving funds locally and nationally
Board and workplace diversity, equity and inclusion
Civic activity
Community impact
Compensation and benefits
Corporate governance
Equitable supply chains and communities
Environmental impacts
Financial performance
Human capital management
Human rights
Philanthropy
Privacy and cybersecurity
Transparency and reporting
Increase transparency of social and environmental strategy and associated investments, including expanding key data disclosures to demonstrate how our sustainability and governance priorities support long-term value creation
Responding to the following frameworks in our annual reporting on sustainability and governance: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework (UNGPRF) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Community engagement through volunteering, philanthropy and civic participation
Daily e-newsletter, team and all-company meetings, social media and speaker series
Employee resource groups, diversity action committees and affinity networks
Executive leadership emails and videos
Focus groups and listening sessions
Inclusion acumen training and toolkit resources
Integrity Hotline
Multi-channel listening program (annual, weekly and topical surveys)
Personal and professional development and training
Compensation and benefits
Community impact
Diversity, equity and inclusion strategy
Employee well-being
Nonpartisan voter information and resources
Philanthropy
Strategic progress and business goals
Talent and development
Target Forward, Target’s sustainability strategy
Ways team members can support each other and local communities
Workplace health and safety
Give our team members equitable opportunities to grow professionally in their careers; take care of themselves, each other and their families; and make a positive impact on our guests and our local communities
Extend opportunities, resources and tools for team member engagement
Share metrics and information externally, including wages and benefits, to enhance our transparency and accountability
In our annual reporting on sustainability and governance priorities and through the disclosures on our website, we report against topics that are most important to our business and our stakeholders. For purposes of our reporting on sustainability and governance priorities and those website disclosures, we use the Global Reporting Initiative’s definition of materiality, which is different than the definition used for filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Issues deemed material for purposes of our sustainability and governance reporting and those website disclosures may not be considered material for SEC reporting purposes.
* Organization of topics are listed alphabetically and does not indicate order of priority.