Celanese Corp. announced the publication of its 2023-2024 sustainability report, The Chemistry of Change, and its complementary 2023-2024 Sustainability Index. This year’s report underscores the company’s expansion of its lower-carbon footprint solutions that support evolving customer needs, commitment to driving innovation across its businesses and supply chains, and efforts to build on its emissions tracking and reporting capabilities. The associated index provides a comprehensive view of resources and disclosures, including alignment with sustainability frameworks, policies, practices, and metrics.

“Chemistry is key to helping us unlock and solve many of the sustainability challenges the world is facing today,” said Lori Ryerkerk, Celanese chair, chief executive officer and president. “Our team has been implementing solutions to reach our own business and sustainability goals and to equip our customers with products that can help them reach their goals. As we reflect on this year’s accomplishments, we are motivated by the sustainable growth opportunities that we believe will continue to benefit generations to come.”

Celanese advanced its commitment to sustainability across four strategic pillars listed below:

Advancing Safe and Sustainable Customer Solutions

• Launching a carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project at its Clear Lake, Texas, facility, through its Fairway Methanol joint venture with Mitsui & Co, Ltd., to use recycled CO₂ to help reduce the carbon footprint of its products.
• Becoming the first company to receive the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Carbon Footprint Certification (CFC) for its low-carbon CCU methanol.
• Partnering with Under Armour^® to bring the first commercialized product containing NEOLAST™, a more sustainable spandex-alternative fiber for performance stretch fabrics, to customers.
• Consolidating Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data into a centralized system with updated sources for more accessible and consistent data.

Preserving the Environment

• Integrating the legacy DuPont Mobility & Materials (M&M) facilities into its 2021 and 2022 environmental data and re-establishing its 2021 baselines to reflect the combined business.
• Updating its water risk assessment process to incorporate additional tools and further evaluate opportunities to mitigate water risk across its facilities.
• Developing methodologies for quantifying Scope 3 GHG emissions for additional relevant categories of Celanese operations.

Investing in People and Communities

• Investing in technical training through an expanded collection of live and online resources to support knowledge transfer, capability building, and professional skill development.
• Increasing Employee Resource Group (ERG) memberships significantly by integrating the legacy M&M employees into its network, adding 10 new chapters, and establishing a new employee interest group focused on wellness.
• Establishing a five-year stewardship improvement strategy to strengthen its approach for protecting the health and safety of its employees and contractors.

Operating with Integrity

• Initiating a double materiality assessment aligned with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to better understand its sustainability-related impacts, risks, and opportunities.
• Leveraging a new digital assessment tool to increase transparency along the value chain through the analysis of supplier impacts against social and environmental regulations.
• Being governed by a female CEO and chair and female lead independent director in addition to 40% of board members and 33% of senior leadership being female.

"I continue to be proud of our progress and dedication to strategic sustainability priorities that we have established," said Darren Hubbard, Celanese senior director, sustainability. “From our growing portfolio of sustainable solutions for customers, to our digital transformation journey, and our ongoing goal to report meaningful disclosures, I believe our efforts will lead to a more sustainable future not just for Celanese, but for our customers, shareholders, and the communities where we live and work.”

The report and index align with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Chemicals Sector Standard, the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Additionally, these materials leverage the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards to inform disclosures and evaluate impacts on the economy, environment and people.

Both the 2023-2024 Sustainability Report and Index are available at www.Celanese.com.