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Remaining water consumption was estimated from the average water use intensity for Canadian offices from the REALpac Performance of the Canadian Office Sector, prorated by office floor area and scaled down relative to office vacancy rates during 2021.
Water withdrawn in areas of water stress is not tracked.
WASTE We collected waste output information from our facilities.
Waste disposal methods and amounts were determined through tracking waste directly disposed by facilities, through reports from waste disposal contractors or through waste audits (bag counts).
Actual waste output information was available for approximately space globally.
Remaining landfill waste was estimated from the average waste output intensity for our offices with actual data prorated by office floor area and scaled down relative to office vacancy rates during 2021.
Recycling and other non-landfill waste output were not estimated where data was unavailable.
Specific Standard Disclosures GRI 103-1 through GRI-103-3 management approach disclosures for all our material topics are detailed in our standalone Managing our ESG Impacts document.
The care I see from our team strikes me as both a differentiator in our industry and an outstanding asset in addressing the great social and environmental challenges of our time.
And it advances progress on Target’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities.
We built on our long-standing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategy and deepened our commitments as an anti-racist organization.
As the following pages show, we also advanced on efforts to reduce environmental impact through renewable energy projects, circular design and more.
For instance, as we work to become a net zero enterprise by emissions accountability across our supply chain, and we retrofitted our first net zero energy store.
This approach has extended across our stakeholder ecosystem, as investors, guests and suppliers have also reacted positively to how we are bringing Target Forward to life through new and highly impactful programs.
One example of how we are designing and elevating sustainable brands is the launch of Target Zero, an initiative to help our guests more easily find hundreds of products across our assortment that create less packaging waste.
In March our Vista, California, store to become Target’s first net zero energy store – furthering our journey toward net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
These are just a few of the ways we are bringing solutions to life that better serve our communities and the environment.
It’s the only way to achieve meaningful social and environmental change.
By seeking differing viewpoints and engaging experts to address challenges and opportunities, Target Forward is poised to succeed in helping tackle such critical issues as racial equity, plastic waste and climate change.
We are committed to providing inclusive and sustainable choices that support the needs of our guests, align with their values, and uplift and protect the people, communities and ecosystems within our value chain.
Our commitments will evolve and refine as we continually learn and bring together information from various sources, such as new scientific research, stakeholder expectations and business demands.
• Introduced Target Zero in that marks hundreds of new and existing products across our assortment with the Target Zero icon, signaling products and packaging designed to reduce waste.
Design and elevate sustainable brands 3 Brands or manufacturers with industry-leading products or services that have context-specific environmental and/or socially beneficial features, backed by credible standards or impact metrics.
Innovate to eliminate waste We plan to partner across the value chain to design solutions that eliminate waste, while providing ease and convenience.
• Achieved a emissions, well on our way to achieving a 50% reduction by 2030.
• Established projects and partnerships that are anticipated to result in purchasing more than our electricity from renewable sources, well on our way toward 100% by 2030.
• Retrofitted our first net zero energy store, expected to generate up to year than needed to support its operations.
Met or exceeded almost all of our diversity, equity and inclusion goals in the workplace, inspiring a new set of goals for 2022–2024 to deepen our impact and elevate our equity.
or technological carbon removal solutions (e.g., forestry, regenerative agriculture, carbon capture technology), by no later than 2050.
We aim to center our business strategy, investments, engagement and reporting on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics that are most important to our business and our stakeholders across our value chain.
Transparency and reporting Increase transparency of social and environmental strategy and associated investments, including expanding key data disclosures.
Expand the metrics and information we share externally, including wages, benefits and diversity, to enhance our transparency and accountability.
Vendor think tank • Transparency and reporting Help our vendors strengthen their social and environmental performance through programs and capability building, and advise them on establishing and executing grievance mechanisms and monitoring performance.
Make training and guidebook available in multiple languages on our expectations for supply chain human rights, ethical business and environmental standards.
Unveiled our first net zero energy store in March support of our commitments to use more renewable energy and reduce our carbon footprint.
By partnering and innovating throughout our supply chain, and keeping inclusivity at the center of what we do, we’re striving to address the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.
Fortune 2022 ESG: metrics for renewable energy consumption and scope 1 and 2 is for domestic (U.S.) operations that we have operational control under The Climate Registry General Reporting Protocol.
Investing in Circularity Circular design is a critical part of how we will deliver our Target Forward goal to design and elevate sustainable brandsand inspirational, and essential to our ambition to innovate to eliminate waste.
The impacts of climate change are profound and increasingly being felt by people across the world, particularly society’s most marginalized groups.
To meet the challenge of climate change, we’re increasing energy efficiency, using more renewable energy and implementing new practices across our value chain to reduce our carbon footprint.
Responsible Resource Use Our planet provides the raw materials needed for our products.
Because many impacts associated with our products originate in our supply chains, we collaborate with suppliers to create shared positive impact and enhance transparency, leveraging our internal policies to uphold robust raw material sourcing standards.
We have commitments for the responsible sourcing of forest products, chemicals, cotton, animal welfare, palm oil and seafood, with efforts aimed at nurturing biodiversity, advancing water stewardship and driving best practices in chemicals use.
based or technological carbon removal solutions (e.g., forestry, regenerative agriculture, carbon capture technology), by no later than 2050.
We are enhancing the environmental performance of our products and packaging, leveraging our size and scale to innovate lowerimpact solutions, including alternatives to plastic.
The tool was leveraged in baseline of the water and greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of its shipping materials.
recyclable plastic packaging To address concerns about plastic packaging impacts, we’re working to reduce virgin plastic use.
Key to our progress is pre-competitive collaboration across the supply chain, as well as exploration of alternative materials that considers the full environmental implications of substitutes.
As members of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and a signatory of the New Plastics Economy and the U.S. Plastics Pact, we look to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic waste through reduction and innovation.
We seek to reduce operational waste, to partner with upstream suppliers on similar commitments and to activate efforts throughout our value chain.
Zero waste involves the conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse and recovery of products, packaging and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water or air that threaten the environment or human health, as established by the Zero Waste International Alliance.
The threshold to be considered “zero waste” is normally set at a minimum of diversion rate.
Vendor partnerships Robust vendor partnerships help enhance our waste reduction, recycling and reuse programs.
In the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America to drive continuous improvement in establishing waste management systems and divert waste from landfill.
In the program, with 21 of those factories achieving zero waste to landfill12 — collectively diverting 5,602 tons of waste.
We will continue to work with participating factories to support their ongoing success, look to add additional factories to the program in the future and explore ways to use the footwear model to reduce waste across other owned brand categories.
We have service providers who manage of our electronics waste domestically — no materials are exported — while batteries are recycled by our hazardous waste vendors.
We engage companies, including Novolex, Fresh Pak, Potential Industries and Waste Management, to recycle our packaging film.
Additionally, we have partnered with mannequin manufacturers closer to our stores to reduce shipping distance and set up reclamation and recycling processes at these facilities to create a circular waste stream.
Eliminating food waste Aligned with our Target Forward goal to achieve zero waste to landfill2030, we plan to reduce operational food waste by 50% by 2025.
With the support of our partner Anthesis, we have also established our food waste footprint and baseline year ((WRI) Food Loss & Waste Protocol.
Should any of our stores and supply chain facilities have surplus food, they can donate eligible safefor-consumption products to their local Feeding America member food bank.
This partnership allows us to support the communities we serve while reducing our environmental impact.
To continue to support our zero waste to landfill goal, in 2022, we will also launch an additional 700 stores on an organics recycling program with our partner Divert Inc. Read more about our vendor partnerships, takeback programs and food waste reduction efforts as part of our circularity strategy.
the environment or human health, as established by the Zero Waste International Alliance.
The threshold to be considered “zero waste” is normally set at a minimum of 90% diversion rate.
-- --- Waste elimination and reduction Responsible waste disposal When we can’t eliminate waste, we try to divert it from landfill.
In and 80.8% of operational waste was diverted from retail operations.
Responsible disposal of waste Target is piloting an innovation project in four locations that involves placing a camera in compactors and using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect recyclable materials.
net zero. and Race to Zero campaigns so that our emissions contribute to no more than 1.5°C warming, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and drive meaningful change across our sector.
• Set our Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)-approved goal to reduce absolute scope emissions and scope 3 GHG emissions from retail purchased goods and services (PGS) 30% by 2030 from a 2017 baseline.
• Achieved reduction in emissions (scopes 1 and 2) from a 2017 baseline.
Aim for suppliers by spend — covering all PGS — to set science-based reduction targets for scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 2023.
• Aim to source of our electricity from renewable sources for our operations.
• Aim to source of our electricity from renewable sources for our global operations.
Updated scope 2 emissions reduction goal to 50% by 2030 from a 2017 baseline.
Engage suppliers to prioritize renewable energy and collaborate on solutions that protect, sustain and restore nature.
Aim to achieve absolute reduction in operations emissions (scopes 1 and 2) from a 2017 baseline.
Aim to achieve absolute reduction in supply chain emissions (scope 3) covering retail PGS from a 2017 baseline.
We continuously strive to reduce the carbon footprint of our direct operations and supply chain, and have developed an approach to reducing emissions across our enterprise.
Partnering with suppliers on emissions reduction strategies We have been working for many years with various third-party partners on initiatives to reduce scope emissions and track progress against our goals.
The production, distribution, use and disposal of products are responsible for most of our GHG emissions, so we have set several targets to reduce emissions across our supply chain.
Through our climate supplier engagement program, we continue to support suppliers as they calculate their carbon footprint, set science-based emission reduction targets, track progress and drive collaborative action.
Around of suppliers by spend had set emissions reduction targets by the end of 2021.
These sites create direct emissions through the activities under their control.
They also consume electricity, which generates indirect emissions during its production.
Our upstream and downstream value chain activities cover manufacturing, product distribution, business travel, guests using our products and other indirect sources.
Specifically, goods and services that we purchase account for approximately of our scope 3 emissions, and the remaining 53% of scope 3 emissions come from use of sold products, transportation and other activities.
We use the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) and CDP to capture allocated emissions reductions from our suppliers, and these reductions were reported from third-party verified datasets or were validated internally by Target.
The business environment in growth and therefore our emissions.
Total sales increased by $to $104.61 billion in 2021, which contributed to a 4.5% rise year-over-year in scope 3 emissions.
As we work on our ambitious climate goals and partner with our suppliers to make reductions, we expect to see those efforts reflected in our future emissions performance over the medium and long term.
Regenerative agriculture: We co-funded a five-year, $McDonald’s and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help Nebraska farmers advance soil health.
• Responsible sourcing: With multiple partners and stakeholders, Target is working to meet responsible sourcing and climate change commitments for palm oil, forest products, cotton, coffee and seafood.
• Packaging: In 2025 commitments to eliminate problematic plastics in packaging with the potential to reduce energy use and GHG emissions.
• Guest engagement: The use of sold products accounts for approximately carbon emissions — we have an opportunity to educate our guests on reducing emissions, such as through the purchase of ENERGY STARcertified products.
17 Target sales increased in 2021, resulting in an associated increase in scope 3 emissions.
However, sales increased at a higher rate than emissions during this period, showing a relative slowdown of supplier emissions compared to sales growth.
This restatement is due to: the application of The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) factors by year to the Use of Sold Product category; U.S. EPA WARM factor decreases in End of Life; and an adjustment to remove emissions Target is already accounting for in the PGS category. 19 Changes in sales from 2017 to 2021 drove a 26.2% increase in retail PGS emissions.
20 Supplier-reported emission reductions and greening of the electricity grid accounted for a 5.3% reduction in emissions in 2020.

Remaining water consumption was estimated from the average water use intensity for Canadian offices from the REALpac Performance of the Canadian Office Sector, prorated by office floor area and scaled down relative to office vacancy rates during 2021.

Water withdrawn in areas of water stress is not tracked.

WASTE We collected waste output information from our facilities.

Waste disposal methods and amounts were determined through tracking waste directly disposed by facilities, through reports from waste disposal contractors or through waste audits (bag counts).

Actual waste output information was available for approximately space globally.

Remaining landfill waste was estimated from the average waste output intensity for our offices with actual data prorated by office floor area and scaled down relative to office vacancy rates during 2021.

Recycling and other non-landfill waste output were not estimated where data was unavailable.

Specific Standard Disclosures GRI 103-1 through GRI-103-3 management approach disclosures for all our material topics are detailed in our standalone Managing our ESG Impacts document.

The care I see from our team strikes me as both a differentiator in our industry and an outstanding asset in addressing the great social and environmental challenges of our time.

And it advances progress on Target’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities.

We built on our long-standing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategy and deepened our commitments as an anti-racist organization.

As the following pages show, we also advanced on efforts to reduce environmental impact through renewable energy projects, circular design and more.

For instance, as we work to become a net zero enterprise by emissions accountability across our supply chain, and we retrofitted our first net zero energy store.

This approach has extended across our stakeholder ecosystem, as investors, guests and suppliers have also reacted positively to how we are bringing Target Forward to life through new and highly impactful programs.

One example of how we are designing and elevating sustainable brands is the launch of Target Zero, an initiative to help our guests more easily find hundreds of products across our assortment that create less packaging waste.

In March our Vista, California, store to become Target’s first net zero energy store – furthering our journey toward net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

These are just a few of the ways we are bringing solutions to life that better serve our communities and the environment.

It’s the only way to achieve meaningful social and environmental change.

By seeking differing viewpoints and engaging experts to address challenges and opportunities, Target Forward is poised to succeed in helping tackle such critical issues as racial equity, plastic waste and climate change.

We are committed to providing inclusive and sustainable choices that support the needs of our guests, align with their values, and uplift and protect the people, communities and ecosystems within our value chain.

Our commitments will evolve and refine as we continually learn and bring together information from various sources, such as new scientific research, stakeholder expectations and business demands.

• Introduced Target Zero in that marks hundreds of new and existing products across our assortment with the Target Zero icon, signaling products and packaging designed to reduce waste.

Design and elevate sustainable brands 3 Brands or manufacturers with industry-leading products or services that have context-specific environmental and/or socially beneficial features, backed by credible standards or impact metrics.

Innovate to eliminate waste We plan to partner across the value chain to design solutions that eliminate waste, while providing ease and convenience.

• Achieved a emissions, well on our way to achieving a 50% reduction by 2030.

• Established projects and partnerships that are anticipated to result in purchasing more than our electricity from renewable sources, well on our way toward 100% by 2030.

• Retrofitted our first net zero energy store, expected to generate up to year than needed to support its operations.

Met or exceeded almost all of our diversity, equity and inclusion goals in the workplace, inspiring a new set of goals for 2022–2024 to deepen our impact and elevate our equity.

or technological carbon removal solutions (e.g., forestry, regenerative agriculture, carbon capture technology), by no later than 2050.

We aim to center our business strategy, investments, engagement and reporting on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics that are most important to our business and our stakeholders across our value chain.

Transparency and reporting Increase transparency of social and environmental strategy and associated investments, including expanding key data disclosures.

Expand the metrics and information we share externally, including wages, benefits and diversity, to enhance our transparency and accountability.

Vendor think tank • Transparency and reporting Help our vendors strengthen their social and environmental performance through programs and capability building, and advise them on establishing and executing grievance mechanisms and monitoring performance.

Make training and guidebook available in multiple languages on our expectations for supply chain human rights, ethical business and environmental standards.

Unveiled our first net zero energy store in March support of our commitments to use more renewable energy and reduce our carbon footprint.

By partnering and innovating throughout our supply chain, and keeping inclusivity at the center of what we do, we’re striving to address the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Fortune 2022 ESG: metrics for renewable energy consumption and scope 1 and 2 is for domestic (U.S.) operations that we have operational control under The Climate Registry General Reporting Protocol.

Investing in Circularity Circular design is a critical part of how we will deliver our Target Forward goal to design and elevate sustainable brandsand inspirational, and essential to our ambition to innovate to eliminate waste.

The impacts of climate change are profound and increasingly being felt by people across the world, particularly society’s most marginalized groups.

To meet the challenge of climate change, we’re increasing energy efficiency, using more renewable energy and implementing new practices across our value chain to reduce our carbon footprint.

Responsible Resource Use Our planet provides the raw materials needed for our products.

Because many impacts associated with our products originate in our supply chains, we collaborate with suppliers to create shared positive impact and enhance transparency, leveraging our internal policies to uphold robust raw material sourcing standards.

We have commitments for the responsible sourcing of forest products, chemicals, cotton, animal welfare, palm oil and seafood, with efforts aimed at nurturing biodiversity, advancing water stewardship and driving best practices in chemicals use.

based or technological carbon removal solutions (e.g., forestry, regenerative agriculture, carbon capture technology), by no later than 2050.

We are enhancing the environmental performance of our products and packaging, leveraging our size and scale to innovate lowerimpact solutions, including alternatives to plastic.

The tool was leveraged in baseline of the water and greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of its shipping materials.

recyclable plastic packaging To address concerns about plastic packaging impacts, we’re working to reduce virgin plastic use.

Key to our progress is pre-competitive collaboration across the supply chain, as well as exploration of alternative materials that considers the full environmental implications of substitutes.

As members of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and a signatory of the New Plastics Economy and the U.S. Plastics Pact, we look to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic waste through reduction and innovation.

We seek to reduce operational waste, to partner with upstream suppliers on similar commitments and to activate efforts throughout our value chain.

Zero waste involves the conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse and recovery of products, packaging and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water or air that threaten the environment or human health, as established by the Zero Waste International Alliance.

The threshold to be considered “zero waste” is normally set at a minimum of diversion rate.

Vendor partnerships Robust vendor partnerships help enhance our waste reduction, recycling and reuse programs.

In the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America to drive continuous improvement in establishing waste management systems and divert waste from landfill.

In the program, with 21 of those factories achieving zero waste to landfill12 — collectively diverting 5,602 tons of waste.

We will continue to work with participating factories to support their ongoing success, look to add additional factories to the program in the future and explore ways to use the footwear model to reduce waste across other owned brand categories.

We have service providers who manage of our electronics waste domestically — no materials are exported — while batteries are recycled by our hazardous waste vendors.

We engage companies, including Novolex, Fresh Pak, Potential Industries and Waste Management, to recycle our packaging film.

Additionally, we have partnered with mannequin manufacturers closer to our stores to reduce shipping distance and set up reclamation and recycling processes at these facilities to create a circular waste stream.

Eliminating food waste Aligned with our Target Forward goal to achieve zero waste to landfill2030, we plan to reduce operational food waste by 50% by 2025.

With the support of our partner Anthesis, we have also established our food waste footprint and baseline year ((WRI) Food Loss & Waste Protocol.

Should any of our stores and supply chain facilities have surplus food, they can donate eligible safefor-consumption products to their local Feeding America member food bank.

This partnership allows us to support the communities we serve while reducing our environmental impact.

To continue to support our zero waste to landfill goal, in 2022, we will also launch an additional 700 stores on an organics recycling program with our partner Divert Inc. Read more about our vendor partnerships, takeback programs and food waste reduction efforts as part of our circularity strategy.

the environment or human health, as established by the Zero Waste International Alliance.

The threshold to be considered “zero waste” is normally set at a minimum of 90% diversion rate.

-- --- Waste elimination and reduction Responsible waste disposal When we can’t eliminate waste, we try to divert it from landfill.

In and 80.8% of operational waste was diverted from retail operations.

Responsible disposal of waste Target is piloting an innovation project in four locations that involves placing a camera in compactors and using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect recyclable materials.

net zero. and Race to Zero campaigns so that our emissions contribute to no more than 1.5°C warming, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and drive meaningful change across our sector.

• Set our Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)-approved goal to reduce absolute scope emissions and scope 3 GHG emissions from retail purchased goods and services (PGS) 30% by 2030 from a 2017 baseline.

• Achieved reduction in emissions (scopes 1 and 2) from a 2017 baseline.

Aim for suppliers by spend — covering all PGS — to set science-based reduction targets for scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 2023.

• Aim to source of our electricity from renewable sources for our operations.

• Aim to source of our electricity from renewable sources for our global operations.

Updated scope 2 emissions reduction goal to 50% by 2030 from a 2017 baseline.

Engage suppliers to prioritize renewable energy and collaborate on solutions that protect, sustain and restore nature.

Aim to achieve absolute reduction in operations emissions (scopes 1 and 2) from a 2017 baseline.

Aim to achieve absolute reduction in supply chain emissions (scope 3) covering retail PGS from a 2017 baseline.

We continuously strive to reduce the carbon footprint of our direct operations and supply chain, and have developed an approach to reducing emissions across our enterprise.

Partnering with suppliers on emissions reduction strategies We have been working for many years with various third-party partners on initiatives to reduce scope emissions and track progress against our goals.

The production, distribution, use and disposal of products are responsible for most of our GHG emissions, so we have set several targets to reduce emissions across our supply chain.

Through our climate supplier engagement program, we continue to support suppliers as they calculate their carbon footprint, set science-based emission reduction targets, track progress and drive collaborative action.

Around of suppliers by spend had set emissions reduction targets by the end of 2021.

These sites create direct emissions through the activities under their control.

They also consume electricity, which generates indirect emissions during its production.

Our upstream and downstream value chain activities cover manufacturing, product distribution, business travel, guests using our products and other indirect sources.

Specifically, goods and services that we purchase account for approximately of our scope 3 emissions, and the remaining 53% of scope 3 emissions come from use of sold products, transportation and other activities.

We use the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) and CDP to capture allocated emissions reductions from our suppliers, and these reductions were reported from third-party verified datasets or were validated internally by Target.

The business environment in growth and therefore our emissions.

Total sales increased by $to $104.61 billion in 2021, which contributed to a 4.5% rise year-over-year in scope 3 emissions.

As we work on our ambitious climate goals and partner with our suppliers to make reductions, we expect to see those efforts reflected in our future emissions performance over the medium and long term.

Regenerative agriculture: We co-funded a five-year, $McDonald’s and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help Nebraska farmers advance soil health.

• Responsible sourcing: With multiple partners and stakeholders, Target is working to meet responsible sourcing and climate change commitments for palm oil, forest products, cotton, coffee and seafood.

• Packaging: In 2025 commitments to eliminate problematic plastics in packaging with the potential to reduce energy use and GHG emissions.

• Guest engagement: The use of sold products accounts for approximately carbon emissions — we have an opportunity to educate our guests on reducing emissions, such as through the purchase of ENERGY STARcertified products.

17 Target sales increased in 2021, resulting in an associated increase in scope 3 emissions.

However, sales increased at a higher rate than emissions during this period, showing a relative slowdown of supplier emissions compared to sales growth.

This restatement is due to: the application of The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) factors by year to the Use of Sold Product category; U.S. EPA WARM factor decreases in End of Life; and an adjustment to remove emissions Target is already accounting for in the PGS category. 19 Changes in sales from 2017 to 2021 drove a 26.2% increase in retail PGS emissions.

20 Supplier-reported emission reductions and greening of the electricity grid accounted for a 5.3% reduction in emissions in 2020.