Boeing 2024 Sustainability and Social Impact report highlights “steady progress”

Boeing has released its 2024 Sustainability & Social Impact report to showcase ""steady progress” the company has made on sustainability. Boeing chief sustainability officer Brian Moran said that progress would ""always be anchored in safety and quality"". The report comes following serious scrutiny on Boeing after a series of maintenance issues, which began with a door plug lost during a rapid decompression in January 2024. Progress points in this year's report include acknowledging 39% of energy for Boeing's operations was sourced from renewable electricity in 2023 through a combination of direct purchases and renewable energy credits, a 6.4-point increase in the percentage of its US workforce that is made up of racial/ethnic minorities, and a 1.2-point increase in the percentage of Boeing's global workforce that is women, both since 2020. The report also highlighted 100,000-hour increase in employee volunteer hours in 2023, totalling 477,000 hours invested into charitable causes worldwide, $60 million in employee donations, including a boost from the Boeing Gift Match Program to charitable organisations. Boeing also said it has been “evolving its carbon management approach to an 'avoid first, remove second' strategy: “Avoiding first entails the prevention of carbon emissions by reducing and/or avoiding those emissions at the source, for example, by continuing to invest in renewable energy and efficient infrastructure while encouraging resource conservation. “Removing second means utilizing offsets and removals for hard to abate emissions. To strengthen and diversify our offset portfolio over time, Boeing is increasing its investments in permanent carbon removal projects."" Boeing has also reconfirmed its support of ""important technology and policy development in support of the Carbon Offsetting Removal Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)"".