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BiographyDawn Rittenhouse

Dawn Rittenhouse is Director of Sustainable Development for the DuPont Company.
Dawn joined DuPont in 1980 and has held positions in Technical Service, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management within the Packaging and Industrial Polymers business and Crop Protection businesses. In late 1997, she began working in the corporate organization to assist DuPont businesses in integrating sustainability strategies into their strategy and business management processes.

She leads DuPont’s efforts at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Global Compact. She also manages the corporate recognition program for Sustainable Growth Excellence. In 2007 she picked up responsibility for DuPont’s efforts on climate change.

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  • As societal expectations of companies shifted toward being beyond compliance with the law, DuPont established in 1989 our first footprint reduction goals to align the company with the new expectations. DuPont committed to a 90 percent reduction in air carcinogens and 70 percent reduction in air toxics. The concept was to set 10-year goals that allowed DuPont to find innovative solutions that benefited both business and the environment. We challenged the organization to drive source reduction strategies versus end-of-pipe treatments. Over the next few years we added goals on energy use and greenhouse gas emission reductions, again, with long implementation horizons to allow for innovative and creative solutions. By 2000, we had exceeded our goals: Air carcinogens dropped 92

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