Our commitments

We will continue to build on the foundations of our work around the world. Specifically, we commit to contributing at least 1% pre-tax profit overall and in each of our regions, year on year.

We are also committed to developing more partnerships across the business to help address global social, economic and environmental concerns linked to the Millennium Development Goals.

Millennium Development Goals

We want to play our part and contribute where we can. By working with others, we can achieve more than by working alone.

The Millennium Development Goals are a set of goals responding to the world's main development challenges adopted by 189 nations during the United Nations Summit in 2000. The nations pledged to work together from 2000 to 2015 to achieve eight goals:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development