Sustainability Report 2024

Our Sustainability Commitments

Our sustainability goals reflect our aspirations to enable and accelerate the global energy transition and achieve our overarching Company goal to be the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world, providing excellent service to our customers. Fundamentally, it is our people who are the real enablers of a cleaner future, working alongside our customers to help solve pressing energy and environmental challenges.

Sustainability Commitments

Working Together to Generate a Cleaner Future

To reach true net zero, the world needs solutions for deep decarbonisation of the hardest-to-abate sectors such as steelmaking, chemical production and heavy-duty transportation. Clean hydrogen is the solution. As the leading global hydrogen supplier today, Air Products is applying our expertise and investments in clean hydrogen and clean fuels projects to help accelerate the energy transition and generate a cleaner future for our world.

Explore our interactive graphic for some examples of how Air Products can help customers decarbonise and operate more sustainably.

Sustainability in Action

Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies for 7th Consecutive Year

Air Products has once again earned a spot on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies List. This is Air Products’ seventh consecutive year on the list, which evaluates the largest public companies in the United States across several sustainability categories.

For this annual ranking of the most sustainable companies, Barron’s partnered with Calvert Research and Management, which analyzed the 1,000 largest U.S. public companies. Sustainability practices were evaluated on 230 performance indicators across five weighted categories – the planet, the workplace, customers, the community and shareholders.

Inclusion on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list is Air Products’ latest recognition for its sustainability efforts. Recently, Air Products was included in S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook for 2025, and Air Products has received an “A” rating on MSCI’s environmental, social and governance ratings.

Learn more about Air Products' sustainability recognitions.

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MSCI Awards Air Products an 'A' Rating

MSCI's environmental, social and governance (ESG) Ratings awarded Air Products an ‘A’ rating based on the company's improvements in its carbon management strategy, including carbon capture efforts, its announced goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions from operations by 2050, and other sustainability initiatives. In its review, MSCI rated Air Products an ESG leader in its industry in two categories: clean tech, and safety and health.

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Green Finance Framework

We have established our Green Finance Framework to further align our financing activities with our sustainability strategy and commitments. The Framework outlines the methodology and principles for green finance instruments that may be issued by Air Products to finance and/or refinance eligible projects contributing to our sustainability strategy.