Impacting Human Health: 2022 ESG Report

Jun 23, 2023 9:00 AM ET
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In its 2022 ESG Report, Moderna provides an update on how it is advancing its ESG strategy against five guiding focus areas for ongoing and future efforts:

  • Medicines for patients
  • Employees
  • Environment
  • Community
  • Governance and ethics

The report also includes updates to the progress Moderna has made to date:

  • 156% increase in tracked volunteer hours from 2021
  • 63% employee participation rate in volunteering and/or giving
  • $7.8M in grants by the Moderna Foundation
  • $4M focused on improving health systems and healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Moderna also announced key progress in 2022 for its Global Public Health Strategy to:
    • Advance vaccines targeting 15 pathogens identified as the biggest public health risks into clinical studies by 2025 – 12 priority pathogens currently in research and development
    • Launch mRNA access – 9 institutions participating today
    • Expand regional manufacturing – 4 new facilities announced in Australia, Canada, Kenya, and the United Kingdom
  • The Company also announced reported on how, as it continues to scale as an organization, it is creating an environment that is rooted in a strong sense of belonging:      
    • Moderna’s team represents 34 different nationalities, and its workforce is 50 percent female with women comprising 41 percent of Moderna executives
    • Moderna also continued to work to increase racial and ethnic representation in its U.S. workforce in 2022
  • Understanding that human health and planetary health are interconnected, Moderna affirmed its prior commitments by establishing its environmental sustainability strategy based on three pillars.
    • Decarbonize value chain: Moderna has committed to define a near-term science-based target and evaluate a long-term Scope 3 target to minimize the impact to the environment from its value chain, establishing its 2021 GHG Scope 3 baseline
    • Natural resource conservation: Moderna has initiated internal energy audits to find efficiency opportunities and identify fossil fuel-fired equipment for replacement in pursuit of its net-zero carbon emissions commitment
    • Sustainability by design: Moderna has also committed to LEED certification (or equivalent) for new sites and buildings, targeting a 92% reduction in fossil fuel use and 10% reduction in embodied carbon in Moderna’s new HQ and R&D operations building in Cambridge, MA

To read more, please visit: https://www.modernatx.com/responsibility/our-commitment
 
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