A Growing Impact
Agrium constantly looks for ways to increase positive impacts on our stakeholders and the environment,
while decreasing the negative. By continually optimizing this equation we create more value for our
stakeholders and grow our ability to help feed the world. We are committed to further improve our
performance in collaboration with our stakeholders-together we can have a growing impact on the world.
Our Mission
Providing ingredients for growth.
Our Sustainability Vision
Agrium will make an increasingly positive impact on stakeholders while helping to feed the world responsibly.
Our Sustainability Definition
The enduring well-being of interacting economic, environmental and social systems.
To achieve sustainability, Agrium remains committed to governance, ethics, transparency, continual improvement, innovation and stakeholder engagement.
About this Report
This report covers performance for five years ending December 31, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
We publish a sustainability report every two years. This is our third report.
References to "Agrium" or "the company" mean Agrium Inc., its subsidiaries and majority joint venture investments,
unless the context indicates otherwise.
Performance data for the companies we acquired in 2006 or 2007 is provided for the year after acquisition and subsequent years. Therefore, data for acquired Royster Clark, Nu-Gro and Pursell Technologies Inc. facilities are provided for 2007 only.
All financial data is reported in US dollars, and product and environmental data are presented in metric units. Please refer to our 2007 Annual Report for more details on our financial performance.
Agrium became a participant in the United Nations Global Compact in late April 2008, during completion of this report. In our next report we will demonstrate how we are implementing the Global Compact's ten principles in human rights, labor, the environment and anticorruption.
We have used the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines and stakeholder input to establish the content of this report. We also interviewed 11 senior Agrium executives for their insights and input to the report. To gain external feedback on the report we shared a draft with our Community Advisory Panels in Fort Saskatchewan and Redwater, Alberta and with The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the Canadian Fertilizer Institute (CFI), and the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA).
The accuracy of this report is of vital concern to us and our stakeholders. Senior management and relevant functional specialists have reviewed all information in this report, and believe it to be an accurate representation of our performance.Agrium undertakes a variety of internal and external assurance activities on data and information that is used in this report. This includes audits on financial, environmental, health and safety performance, management systems and compliance. We also conducted an internal review of the data gathering processes used for data in this report.
Performance graphs are included throughout the report, and statistical data are provided in a table in the performance summary section.
To keep this report concise, we provide relevant policies and more detailed information concerning our sustainability efforts on our website (www.agrium.com).
