To be globally recognized as a leader in providing strategies for businesses to achieve environmental, health and safety (EHS) excellence, economic success and corporate citizenship.

Mission:

Business helping business improve EHS performance, shareholder value and corporate citizenship.

• 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.

More information about GEMI may be found in this GEMI overview presentation