Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000313616-25-000081
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Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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2024 Meeting Attendance

| 97%Overall attendance at     
 Board and Committee Meetings |     | 11Directors attended100%        
 of Board and Committee Meetings |     | There were5            
 Board Meetings in 2024 |

| 2025 Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement |     | 8 |

Sustainability at Danaher

| Innovating products that Improve lives and our planet                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 •At Danaher, innovation doesn’t happen by accident. It is the product of the Danaher Business System ("DBS") Innovation Engine, a rigorous, holistic management program encompassing tools that facilitate innovation, process, strategy, organization, talent and culture 
 •We invested approximately $1.6 billion in research and development in 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                
 •In 2025, we plan to enhance our operating company strategic planning process to better integrate considerations of sustainability where strategically relevant                                                                                                            |     | Building the best team                                                                                                                                                                                     
 •We are committed to attracting, developing, engaging and retaining the best people from around the world to sustain and grow our science and technology leadership                                        
 •"Consistently attracting and retaining exceptional talent” is one of our three strategic priorities and “The Best Team Wins” is one of our five Core Values                                               
 •Demonstrating the investment we make in associate professional development and the value we place on our team, in 2024 our internal fill rate for manager, senior leader and executive roles exceeded 78% |     | Protecting our environment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 •In 2024, we committed to set science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets in line with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), including a long-term target to achieve net-zero value chain emissions by no later than 2050. This commitment expands upon the target we established in 2022 to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 50.4% by 2032 compared to a 2021 baseline 
 •DBS continues to be a uniquely powerful system for supporting our decarbonization ambitions. With the DBS Energy Management Toolkit as our foundation, in 2024 we expanded our suite of domain-specific DBS tools and processes with the goal of driving efficient progress toward our GHG emission reduction goal                                                                                         
 •In 2024, we also deployed across our businesses a climate risk and opportunity assessment