clean water and sanitation decent work and economic growth reduced inequalities approach costco is focusing its sustainability efforts on these seven how we're supporting responsible consumption and production climate action life below water on land by sheri flies usinesses big and small can help the united nations meet its sustainable has incorporated several of these sdgs in our sustainability commitment supporting programs that responsibly source fiber-based products improving water use efficiency and reducing decrease the amount of waste going from decrease packaging waste through a variety of packaging overall and increasing the recy- clability and compostability of packaging costco photo studio an ambitious global effort the planet and find ways for people around sdgs list 17 integrated focus areas to meet the goals are ambitious and diverse especially important part of all these goals sheri flies is costco vice president of global sustainability and compliance costco's role these goals that closely relate to our business and where we feel we can make a real differ- and how we operate our warehouses and depots around the world to decent work conditions and economic the next steps we have set benchmarks that can track our progress toward meeting these sdgs we want to increase our waste diversion the number of certified kirkland signature" kirkland signature products sourced from marine stewardship council-certified fisheries or aquaculture stewardship-certified farms we want to decrease the amount of plastic packaging used in our kirkland signature products and our global carbon emissions for more details details about the u.n sustainable development online at sdgs.un.org our own goals are listed in the costco sustainability at costco.com; scroll to the bottom of the page and find the link under "about us." the u.n.icons are referenced throughout the commitment when we discuss how our work relates to an sdg.–sf