Environment

Reducing carbon and increasing renewable energy resources is vital to many organizations' sustainability goals. Parker can help customers adopt and adapt solutions for renewable energy projects, supporting those goals and promoting a cleaner future.

In addition, Parker has 160 sites that are certified to ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard, resulting in more efficient use of resources and reduction of waste.

Across a wide range of aerospace, industrial and mobile equipment applications, Parker team members partner with customers to solve their complex challenges and enable engineering breakthroughs. Living up to a greater purpose, however, means doing so in a way that minimizes environmental impact to help create a better world for future generations.

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Parker's Sustainability Report

Parker is leading the way to a better tomorrow. Around the world, our team members and technologies are playing a vital role in helping fulfill our purpose and create a brighter future for generations to come.

Our approach to sustainability is all-encompassing, and it begins by empowering our people. Parker team members are working to enable engineering breakthroughs that facilitate the development of clean technologies, create efficiencies that reduce our emissions and other environmental impacts and make the world a better place.

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Clean Technologies Enabling a Better Tomorrow

We are often called upon for the collaborations that help solve the most complex engineering challenges. Breakthroughs that make the world cleaner, smarter and safer would not be possible without Parker technologies.

Our innovative motion and control solutions enable the adoption of cleaner and more efficient energy, electrification, light-weighting and other innovations with a positive, global environmental impact.

Parker’s interconnected portfolio of motion and control technologies features a broad range of highly efficient products and systems engineered to help customers reduce resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, including:

Parker's Carbon Commitment

Our Path to Carbon Neutral

Parker has made great progress on our sustainability journey, and we know we need to do more. We’ve made a commitment to achieve carbon neutral operations by 2040 and established a series of emissions targets.

This commitment to reducing our carbon emissions is another step we are taking to create a sustainable future.

View the graphic to learn about Parker’s commitment to achieving carbon neutral operations by 2040.

Long-Term Strategy

Our climate action program addresses potential risks to our business with a series of key objectives that include aligning technology solutions with changing customer expectations due to climate change, reducing carbon from both our operational and our indirect footprints, reducing risk of operational disruption due to climate change, and meeting customer expectations for carbon footprint reporting.

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Global EHS Directives

Parker’s Global Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Directives provide a clear vision of performance expectations. The Global EHS Directives can be divided into two categories of operational excellence: EHS Management and Operational EHS requirements.

These directives span the full extent of requirements for maintaining a safe workplace as well as effective environmental management. Each directive has supplemental guidelines, standards and best practices, which provide the necessary framework and criteria for our operating facilities. All facilities then adopt and develop site-specific procedures and programs to meet these requirements.

EHS MANAGEMENT	OPERATIONAL EHS
1. EHS Requirements and Responsibilities	6. Incident Investigation
2. Environmental Management System	7. Chemical Use and Waste Management
3. Performance Metrics and Progress Review	8. Electrical Safety
4. Evaluation and Corrective Action	9. Emergency Procedures
5. Management of Change	10. Employee Training and Involvement
	11. Equipment and Machine Safety
	12. Ergonomics
	13. Hazardous Work Permits
	14. Job Safety Analysis and Personal Protective Equipment
	15. Material Handling and Storage
	16. Visitors, Contractors and Temporary Employees
	17. Workplace Environment
	18. Maintenance Safety
	19. Contagious Disease Prevention and Response

Parker’s goal is to reduce absolute emissions related to materials sourcing, logistics and services (indirect footprint) by 15% by 2030, and 25% by 2040.

We have initiated the baseline step with our suppliers and logistics providers through the CDP Supply Chain program and incorporated these expectations into our supply chain requirements.

Parker continues to reduce the volume of waste sent to landfills. Operating responsibly includes eliminating the use of materials that are hazardous to the environment and we are investing in alternatives. Through product testing and collaborating with our customers, we are finding solutions that deliver even better performance with less environmental impact.

Parker currently operates 35 manufacturing facilities located in areas identified as having high water stress by the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Aqueduct 3.0 tool. Our goal is to implement water management best practices at 100% of these sites, which include a complete water inventory and a focus on conservation projects with the intent of reducing raw water consumption and increasing recycled water use. In 2021 and again in 2022, water use was measured at 4.2 million cubic meters per year.

Parker has implemented several supply chain initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint. This includes leveraging sustainable transport methods to reduce emissions associated with air freight and transitioning to electronic documentation to reduce paper waste.

In addition, we are using EcoTransIT World as the tool to calculate CO2 emissions related to our subcontracted motor, rail, sea and air transport services.

We’re also partnered with the CDP Supply Chain program to begin the process of quantifying our supplier’s carbon footprint. Our goal is to determine our baseline footprint and then to work with our suppliers to achieve our Scope III targets.

Parker has been a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay® Transport Partnership since 2013.
Parker is a proud member of the Hydrogen Council, a global CEO-led initiative of companies working to accelerate the clean energy transition.
We’ve also maintained a high rating in the CDP supply chain analysis of more than 5,000 companies that support a sustainable economy.