Belden's commitment to a sustainable future
Belden approaches every situation with innovation, leveraging creative minds and a desire to always improve the way we live, work and make connections. Our 2025 Sustainability Report is now available.
Environmental
Belden is dedicated to doing our part to combat climate change by lowering our direct emissions. We have taken on over 400 projects at locations across the globe to strive towards this.
2030 goal: Reduce global scope 1 and scope 2 total combined emissions by 70%
At Belden, we seek to improve energy efficiency across our businesses and to increase our local use of green energy. These efforts directly help us progress towards our GHG emissions reduction goal.
At Belden, we seek to minimize our direct environmental impacts by responsibly managing our waste and water use.
Our first goal is to minimize the amount of waste that we generate. From here, we are focused on increasing reuse and recycling of our waste. We have invested in many projects to realize this goal.
2030 goal: Divert 90% of waste from landfill for manufacturing and distribution locations.
Social
The Great Place to Work certification recognizes organizations that score highly on an employee engagement survey. This survey focuses on many areas that are relevant to employes, such as company culture, opportunities for professional development and more.
In 2025, we earned this certification in 20 countries in which we operate. We have goals around earning this certification in every country we are eligible, as well as earning high marks on specific areas of interest.
• Achieve 80% fairness score on the Great Place to Work survey.
• Achieve 80% engagement score on the Great Place to Work survey.
• Achieve Great Place to Work certification in 100% of eligible countries.
By 2025, as a first step toward our vision of a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, we will deliver unconscious bias training to 100% of the Belden team worldwide. - ✓
Governance
In 2020, we formalized oversight of Sustainability through our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Belden’s Board of Directors. Our Sustainability Steering Committee, chaired by our Senior Vice President of Legal, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, manages and oversees Belden’s global sustainability strategy and measures progress on our goals and initiatives. The Committee is formally responsible for Sustainability practices and procedures, and related risks and opportunities.
Belden is proud of the diversity of its Board of Directors. Four out of ten members are female, three out of ten identify as a person of color and one out of ten is a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
We conduct Belden's business in an ethical and transparent way that allows us to keep our promises to all current and future stakeholders. We operate our business with integrity to promote the highest ethical standards across the industry. We foster accountability at all levels of the company and ensure our stakeholders are proud to partner with Belden. Good corporate governance is the basis for our decision-making and control processes. As part of ensuring we conduct business with the highest standards and integrity, we maintain a structured approach to corporate governance system, including clear guidance outlined in the Belden Code of Conduct.
Achieve understanding of the Code of Conduct from 100% of global non-production team members.
We protect information managed by Belden from unwarranted parties and unauthorized access, including security threats and cyberattacks. We also ensure that customer, employee and corporate data are collected, analyzed, stored, shared and transferred in a secure manner that upholds privacy and protects personal data. We process, use and protect Belden’s data and the data of our employees, customers and business partners, in compliance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations. Belden has adopted industry-leading practices to protect both Belden assets and customer information. At the direction of the Cybersecurity Subcommittee (part of Belden’s Board of Directors) and internally led by the Chief Information Officer and Cybersecurity Director, Belden has implemented a focused cybersecurity program that includes defined practices and specialized personnel responsible for data and cybersecurity. This program continuously assesses and controls cybersecurity risks to acceptable levels.
We are dedicated to sourcing responsibly. We ensure our suppliers uphold ethical and fundamental labor standards and that workers’ rights are protected. We expect our direct and indirect suppliers and business partners to uphold our values and our commitment to ethics, health and safety and human rights. Belden is a proud member of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), which is the world’s largest coalition of businesses dedicated to creating ethical global supply chains.
