Sustainability Taxonomy

Purpose

Provide Dow’s sustainability actions and impacts and benefits on the market / application and product-level information and encourage users to navigate deeper into product-level or sustainability content.

Create a Sustainability Page template that is distinct from other page types in the taxonomy.


Key Personas

Sustainability Influencer

  • Roles: Sustainability Officer, Supply Manager, Vice President, Global Product Manager, Value Chain Leader
  • Needs: Reliable value chain partners, market trends, and access to innovation and regulatory information.
  • Pain Points: Competitive market dynamics, consumer demands, and certification justifications.
  • Actions: Influencers are responsible for identifying sustainable product options and recommending them within their organization.

Sustainability Customer

  • Roles: Procurement Manager, R&D, Chemical Engineer, Formulator, Product Manager.
  • Needs: Technical data, certifications, pricing, and easy access to product comparisons.
  • Pain Points: Difficulty finding specific sustainability data, and challenges comparing product options.
  • Actions: Customers seek sustainable materials that meet performance standards, formulate solutions, and engage with Dow for technical documentation and sampling.

Guidelines For Use

These pages should include content such as:

  • Sustainability benefits messaging (Note: When the enterprise sustainability brand names focus on the benefits those represent)
  • Product comparisons
  • Technologies
  • Case Studies
  • Regional considerations
  • Certifications overviews (PDPs will have seals of the certifications, linked back to this overview content)
  • Sustainability tools/calculators

Main actions from these pages are clicks to:

  • Brand pages
  • Prefiltered search with sustainable products for the application or product technology
  • PDPs
  • Crosslinks to other sustainability content (e.g. sustainability programs)

Template Example