Environmental Stewardship
Caring for Our Environment
In 2024, we continued to build on our strong foundation of environmental stewardship, making meaningful progress toward our 2025 goals.
Our Journey to Net Zero
In addition to our near-term, self-identified goals, we committed to net zero scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050. These are the emissions related to DaVita’s operations. We call this commitment our Journey to Net Zero, and have focused our action plan in three critical areas:
Increasing our energy efficiency.
Reducing our reliance on carbon-intensive fuels through electrification.
Continuing to pursue the goal of powering all global operations with 100% renewable energy.
Science-Based Climate Goals
A review by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) verifies our climate targets are in line with the
scale of reductions required to keep global warming from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius from
pre-industrial levels. Our many energy efficiency initiatives and clean energy investments have driven notable progress to date.
Vendor Engagement
DaVita encourages its suppliers to set meaningful climate goals. By the end of 2024, 68% of vendors, by emissions, had publicly stated science based targets.
Pathway to Net Zero
DaVita has been focused on energy efficiency improvements for over a decade. These include efficient LED lighting systems and smart building controls. We also upgrade water heaters and HVAC units to high-efficiency systems whenever replacements are required. As a result of our systematic approach to upgrades, the majority of our U.S. centers now have these energy-efficient features.
Continued Progress in Electrification
In 2023, we were proud to announce the launch of our first ever net-zero dialysis center, featuring all electric systems and solar power. In 2024, we’ve built on this progress with five pilot projects upgrading AC units and/or water heaters from natural gas to electricity — a shift that enables us to reduce our reliance on carbon-intensive fuels, thus advancing our Journey to Net Zero. We look forward to expanding on these pilot projects in 2025.
Growing our Renewable Footprint
In 2024 we finalized virtual power purchase agreements supporting the development of two new solar farms in Europe. This represents another step toward our goal of powering all global operations with renewable energy. Our European energy initiatives build on our successes in the U.S., where we met our goal of powering 100% of our operations with renewable wind and solar energy in 2022.
Water Stewardship
Water is an important input to the dialysis process, and we are committed to being good stewards of this resource. In 2024, we continued our ongoing work to upgrade reverse-osmosis water purification systems to newer, more efficient models. We also implemented a targeted Top Water Users reduction program to identify and address areas with the greatest room for efficiency improvements. Through these initiatives, we saved more than 75 million gallons of water in 2024, and have already achieved our 2025 goal of saving 240 million gallons of water since 2021.
External Recognition Celebrating Sustainability Achievements
Our sustainability leadership has earned recognition from leading institutions and publications.
CDP A-List
USA Today America’s
Climate Leaders
Time Magazine’s World’s Most Sustainable Companies
Sustainability
Yearbook Member
- Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices¹
- Green Power Partnership Fortune 500® Partners List
- RE100 member
- DOE (Department of Energy) Better Climate Challenge member
- Newsweek America’s Greenest Companies
We report environmental data aligned with recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a leading authority on environmental reporting. Details on our environmental footprint and supporting data can be found in our TCFD Report and Data Tables in the second half of the downloadable 2024 Community Care Report.
¹ Previously known as Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. Renaming effective February 2025: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/client-services/current-transitions/sp-dow-jones-indices-announces-renaming-of-some-sustainability-indices/
Making Change, Together
Recognizing that our teammates play an important role in sustainability, we encourage involvement through Earth Day, events at our offices and Green Action challenges. In 2024, teammates logged nearly 32,000 Green Actions, which are defined as intentional actions to improve the environment, reduce environmental impact, and/or learn something new or educate others about sustainability.
For more information on our 2024 corporate citizenship initiatives, please visit our ESG Reporting Hub or download our full Community Care ESG Report. Unless otherwise indicated, the data included in this report is as of December 31, 2024 for the Company’s consolidated operations.