Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059273
Chunk: 40

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 40
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 Embrace a mindset of inclusivity for all, good corporate citizenship and social responsibility within our communities. |

| • |     | Environment and Climate Change: Minimize environmental impact of our global operations, with a focus on increased renewable energy usage, reduced water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste to landfills. |

| • |     | Responsible Sourcing: Improve our suppliers’ environmental, labor, health & safety and ethicalpractices. |

| 34 |     | Church & Dwight Co.| 2025 Proxy Statement |

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

Environmental We strive to minimize the impact of our expanding global operations and to meet the challenge of managing our environmental footprint. Our environmental priorities include providing effective products that are safe for our consumers, the animals they care for and the environment, utilizing consumer friendly and environmentally responsible packaging, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water usage, recycling solid waste and improving our suppliers’ environmental practices. We have a goal to achieve carbon neutral status for our owned and controlled global operations by the end of 2025 through GHG reduction programs, green electricity renewable energy credits (RECs), and purchased carbon credits. We established science-based targets that were approved by the Science-Based Targets Initiative in 2022. These targets take into account the level of carbon reduction needed to meet the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement. In addition, we improved overall recyclability across our broad portfolio of products and have a goal to increase Post-Consumer Recycled plastic by the end of 2025. We report our progress towards our goals in our Sustainability Reports. Our operations are subject to federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and regulations relating to environmental concerns, including air emissions, wastewater discharges, solid and hazardous waste management activities, and the safety our employees. We endeavor to take actions necessary to comply with such regulations. These steps include periodic environmental and health and safety audits of our facilities. The audits, conducted by independent firms with expertise in environmental, health and safety compliance, include site visits at each location, as well as a review of documentary information, to determine compliance with such federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and regulations. Social Our Social focus areas are driven by our goals of delighting consumers with our brands through our contributions to sustainability which we believe contribute to a better world, improving our suppliers’ labor, health & safety, environmental and ethical practices, and supporting our employees and communities—all to create a stronger, more resilient company. In their everyday work, our employees embody