Sustainability in 2026 isn’t just talk - it’s action. The game has shifted from aspirational ambitions to clear, pragmatic, measurable results, with businesses now focused on real progress.
This issue delivers a bold story: Baker Hughes is driving sustainability with real, tangible and measurable impact. The recently-released 2025 Sustainability Report unveils the company’s largest reduction in operational emissions yet, showing that performance, innovation, and progress can thrive side by side. Baker Hughes is redefining decarbonization, with people powering every step forward.
The Big Idea | Making sustainability progress at scale
What is the problem and how do we tackle it as an industry?
Sustainability sits at the heart of The Energy Equation™: the dynamic, interdependent cycle between industrial outcomes and energy sources. As a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a member of the UN Global Compact, Baker Hughes is dedicated to working with customers, partners, and key stakeholders to provide robust, scalable, sustainable solutions – starting with its own operational footprint.
Baker Hughes’ 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report spotlights the company’s largest emissions reduction to date, including:
- 36.9% absolute reduction and 45.8% reductions in emissions intensity of scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the 2019 base year
- Zero-carbon energy provides 41.1% of the company’s electricity
- Renewable energy and operational efficiencies lowered combined facility emissions by 49.0%
Read the full press release here or check out the website here.
Meeting customers where they are
The world needs pragmatic solutions to reduce emissions, increase efficiencies and build resilient systems for a lower-carbon future.
A comprehensive range of solutions is needed, and may include geothermal energy, carbon capture, utilization and storage, hydrogen energy and emissions abatement technologies, and sustainability advisory services.
Solutions should be tailored to address operators' unique requirements and facilitate progress at every stage. Baker Hughes enables practical steps towards sustainability and operational excellence, working in partnership with organizations.
Sustainability must be integrated in a company’s corporate strategy, as it affects the bottom line. Check out this interview with PetroNoia and Baker Hughes Chief Sustainability Officer, Allyson Anderson Book , focused on accountability, ESG, and how reducing emissions can improve cost efficiency.
Tech explainer | Turning decarbonization ambitions into practical action
How does it work?
While decarbonization is a priority for many companies, building clearer pathways is often challenging. Key elements include understanding and measuring emissions reductions, mitigating climate risks and identifying opportunities to build resilience.
Baker Hughes GaffneyCline Sustainability Advisory Services helps businesses turn decarbonization ambitions into practical action, built on its own sustainability journey.
In the news | Partnering to decarbonize operations
What is Baker Hughes doing about it and with whom?
- Report: Baker Hughes Achieves 36.9% Absolute Reduction in Operational Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Baker Hughes Develops AI-Enabled Power Optimization and Sustainability Solutions for Data Centers with Google Cloud Technology
- XGS Energy and Baker Hughes Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Geothermal Development in New Mexico
Progress Spotlight | How to meet decarbonization goals
What projects are live today?
Explore recent advances in sustainability and accelerated practical decarbonization solutions:
- Putting people first: Kids’ Meals recognizes Baker Hughes as a 2025 Top Volunteer Group
- Putting people first: Building a workplace where everyone is valued
- Protecting the planet: All in for Carbon Out
- Protecting the planet: Reducing operational emissions
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