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Michael Okoroafor will finish a decade-long profession on the spice and herb maker McCormick when he retires as chief sustainability officer on July 1. Okoroafor might be changed by his colleague Kathy Rostkowski, at present the corporate’s vice chairman of worldwide sustainability.
Okoroafor departs with McCormick exhibiting good progress on some if not all the local weather objectives he helped oversee throughout his tenure.
Local weather progress
The corporate, which is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, has dedicated to decreasing Scope 1, 2 and three emissions by 43 % by 2030, relative to a 2020 baseline. It’s additionally aiming to hit web zero by 2050. Each objectives have been validated by the Science Primarily based Targets initiative.
In 2023, the latest 12 months for which it has launched information, McCormick reported a 40 % discount in Scopes 1 and a pair of alongside an 11 % drop in Scope 3. It’s additionally making sturdy progress towards objectives for sustainable sourcing of elements and recycling, however is off beam on a dedication to cut back water use.
Rostkowski joined McCormick in 2021 to steer the corporate’s ESG efforts, referred to as its Goal-led Efficiency Program. She beforehand spent eight years working in initiatives, partnerships and engagement roles on the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement.
Rostkowski holds three environmental engineering levels: a Bachelor of Science from Yale and a Grasp of Science and PhD from Stanford. She additionally lately accomplished the Strategic Chief Sustainability Officer Program at Stanford College’s Graduate Faculty of Enterprise.
McCormick has near $7 billion in gross sales and employs 14,000 folks in 29 international locations.
