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GEMI is a global leader in developing insights and creating environmental sustainability solutions for business.  For 20+ years, GEMI has captured the vision and experience of global corporate environmental, health and safety (EHS) and sustainability leaders from diverse business sectors through the development of a wide range of more than 30 publicly-available, solutions-based tools designed to help companies improve the environment, their operations and add business value. Spanning multiple eras of environmental management, GEMI has remained on the leading edge of EHS and sustainability issues and development.

GEMI is an organization of leading companies dedicated to foster global environmental, health and safety (EHS) and sustainability excellence through the sharing of tools and information to help business achieve environmental sustainability excellence. GEMI currently has 26 member companies representing more than 12 business sectors.

Through the collaborative efforts of its members, GEMI also promotes a worldwide business ethic for EHS management and sustainable development through example and leadership. GEMI is unique in that it provides a way for companies in a wide range of industrial sectors to work together in a cost effective manner. Members address strategic and tactical issues impacting progressive corporate environmental, health and safety activities in their companies around the world.


GEMI Strategic Goals

Vision: GEMI is a global leader in developing insights and creating environmental sustainability solutions for business.

Mission: Business helping business achieve environmental sustainability excellence.

Strategic Goals:

  • Identify and assess emerging issues vital to achieving a sustainable world while maintaining business growth, and to develop options and approaches to solving the problems presented by these issues.
  • Seek a vital membership of companies that maintain strong EHS and corporate citizenship values and goals and are committed to continuous EHS improvement, the pursuit of EHS and corporate citizenship excellence, and the sharing of their successful techniques.
  • Develop and promote e-tools and other effective mechanisms that help businesses explore the linkages between and enhance their EHS and corporate citizenship performance and extend and leverage the capabilities of EHS or other appropriate professionals in the companies.
  • Promote the adoption of EHS-related best practices among businesses by conducting benchmarking programs.
  • Provide an effective dialogue with stakeholders to help businesses understand their concerns and to share with those stakeholders the practices and results achieved by leadership companies.
  • Create effective partnerships with other national and international groups including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, and other industry groups to better understand critical EHS and corporate citizenship issues and promote cooperative solutions.