Philip Morris International Releases 2025 Sustainability Materiality Report
Insights will inform PMI’s sustainability strategy for 2030+ and help to future-proof its business for enduring success
�The insights gained through our sustainability materiality assessment are more than just data points; they are the bedrock on which our 2030+ sustainability strategy is being built,� said Jennifer Motles, Chief Sustainability Officer. �By placing sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are strengthening our capacity to anticipate change, seize new opportunities, and future-proof our business for enduring success.�
The assessment findings informed the development of six strategic priorities for PMI, which make up its new Sustainability Framework. This Framework organizes topics distinguishing between product and operations—i.e., “what� we create and “how� we create—and is further divided into environmental and social categories.
Product Impact
Social
- Consumers: Addressing product health impacts, providing transparent information, expanding access to smoke-free alternatives for legal-age adults, ensuring responsible marketing and sales, and combating illicit tobacco trade.
Environmental
- Circularity: Advancing a circular model focused on waste reduction, resource efficiency, product durability, and responsible disposal and recovery.
Operational Impact
Social
- Our workforce: Fostering a safe, collaborative, and empowering workplace, with a focus on training, well-being, and fair opportunity.
- Workers in the value chain: Promoting fair treatment, ethical labor practices, and respect for human rights across the value chain.
Environmental
- Climate: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy efficiency, adopting renewable energy, and adapting to climate-related risks.
- Nature: Protecting ecosystems, managing dependencies on natural habitats, and practicing responsible water stewardship.
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Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains projections of future results and goals and other forward-looking statements, including statements regarding expected performance, sustainability strategies, and business plans and strategies. Achievement of future results is subject to risks, uncertainties, and inaccurate assumptions. In the event that risks or uncertainties materialize, or underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could vary materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements. Pursuant to the “safe harbor� provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, PMI is identifying important factors that, individually or in the aggregate, could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements made by PMI.
PMI’s business risks include: excise tax increases and discriminatory tax structures; increasing marketing and regulatory restrictions that could reduce our competitiveness, eliminate our ability to communicate with adult consumers, or ban certain of our products in certain markets or countries; health concerns relating to the use of tobacco and other nicotine-containing products and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke; litigation related to tobacco and/or nicotine use and intellectual property; intense competition; the effects of global and individual country economic, regulatory, and political developments, natural disasters and conflicts; the impact and consequences of Russia’s invasion of
PMI is further subject to other risks detailed from time to time in its publicly filed documents, including PMI’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2024, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025. PMI cautions that the foregoing list of important factors is not a complete discussion of all potential risks and uncertainties. PMI does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that it may make from time to time, except in the normal course of its public disclosure obligations.
Philip Morris International: A Global Smoke-Free Champion
Philip Morris International is a leading international consumer goods company, actively delivering a smoke-free future and evolving its portfolio for the long term to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector. The company’s current product portfolio primarily consists of cigarettes and smoke-free products, including heat-not-burn, nicotine pouch and e-vapor products. As of June 30, 2025, our smoke-free products were available for sale in 97 markets, and PMI estimates they were used by over 41 million legal-age consumers around the world, many of whom have moved away from cigarettes or significantly reduced their consumption. The smoke-free business accounted for
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