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Since 1990, the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) has created tools and provided strategies to help business foster global environmental, health and safety excellence and economic success. GEMI provides a forum for corporate environmental leaders throughout the world to work together, learn from each other through the activities of work groups, benchmark with peers and create tools that can be used by GEMI members and others.

GEMI is an organization of leading companies dedicated to foster global environmental, health and safety (EHS) excellence through the sharing of tools and information to help business achieve EHS excellence. GEMI currently has 37 member companies representing more than 22 business sectors with comprised annual sales of more than $915 billion USD, global headcount more than 2.5 million and more than 3,034 manufacturing facilities worldwide.

Through the collaborative efforts of its members, GEMI also promotes a worldwide business ethic for EHS management and sustainable development through example and leadership. GEMI is unique in that it provides a way for companies in a wide range of industrial sectors to work together in a cost effective manner. Members address strategic and tactical issues impacting progressive corporate environmental, health and safety activities in their companies around the world.

GEMI's vision is to be globally recognized as a leader in providing strategies for businesses to achieve EHS excellence, economic success and corporate citizenship.

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GEMI Strategic Goals

Vision:
To be globally recognized as a leader in providing strategies for businesses to achieve environmental, health and safety (EHS) excellence, economic success and corporate citizenship.

Mission:
Business helping business improve EHS performance, shareholder value and corporate citizenship.

Strategic Goals:

• Identify and assess emerging issues vital to achieving a sustainable world while maintaining business growth, and to develop options and approaches to solving the problems presented by these issues.
• Seek a vital membership of companies that maintain strong EHS and corporate citizenship values and goals and are committed to continuous EHS improvement, the pursuit of EHS and corporate citizenship excellence, and the sharing of their successful techniques.
• Develop and promote e-tools and other effective mechanisms that help businesses explore the linkages between and enhance their EHS and corporate citizenship performance and extend and leverage the capabilities of EHS or other appropriate professionals in the companies.
• Promote the adoption of EHS-related best practices among businesses by conducting benchmarking programs.
• Provide an effective dialogue with stakeholders to help businesses understand their concerns and to share with those stakeholders the practices and results achieved by leadership companies.
• Create effective partnerships with other national and international groups including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, and other industry groups to better understand critical EHS and corporate citizenship issues and promote cooperative solutions.