Global Reporting Initiative Content Index

The Bristol-Myers Squibb sustainability website is a GRI-based report. We believe we are among the first companies to issue a GRI-based report, following the criteria in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2006 G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.

The GRI Application Level grid (below) is included in this report to support our self-declaration of this report at Application Level B+. An independent third-party review of this website confirms that it meets the content and quality requirements of GRI G3 Application Level B+. Additionally, we are requesting that GRI conduct its own review of our Application Level.

Report Application Level	C	B	A
	(C+ = Report Externally Verified)	(B+ = Report Externally Verified)	(A+ = Report Externally Verified)
G3 Profile Disclosures	Report on: 1.1, 2.1-2.10, 3.1-3.8, 3.10-3.12, 4.1-4.4, 4.14-4.15	Report on all criteria listed for Level C plus: 1.2, 3.9, 3.13, 4.5-4.13, 4.16-4.17	Same as requirement for Level B
G3 Management Approach Disclosures	Not Required	Management Approach Disclosures for each Indicator Category	Management Approach Disclosures for each Indicator Category
G3 Performance Indicators and Sector Supplement Performance Indicators	Report on a minimum of 10 Performance Indicators, including at least one from each of: social, economic, and environmental	Report on a minimum of 20 Performance Indicators, including at least one from each of: economic, environmental, human rights, labor, society, product responsibility	Respond on each core G3 and Sector Supplement indicator with due regard to the materiality principle by either: a) reporting on the indicator or b) explaining the reason for its omission

We are interested in your feedback. Please send us your comments on the GRI Content Index below and our self-declaration as a GRI-based report.

The following index is designed for stakeholders who are familiar with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2006 G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. For each G3 performance indicator below, we include a link to the pertinent section of the Bristol-Myers Squibb sustainability website.

G3 Indicator	Description	Location within www.bms.com/sustainability
1. Strategy and Analysis
1.1	Statement from senior decision-maker	CEO Message, Welcome, Vision and strategy
1.2	Description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities	Executive summary, Material issues
2. Organizational Profile
2.1	Organization's name	Company profile
2.2	Major products	Company profile – Major products
2.3	Operational structure and major divisions	Structure and governance Company profile – Major products
2.4	Location of headquarters	New York, New York, USA
2.5	Countries of operation	Company profile – Location of operations, Facility information
2.6	Nature of ownership	Company profile – Ownership and markets served
2.7	Markets served including geographic breakdown/sectors served/customers	Company profile – Ownership and markets served
2.8	Scale of organization including number of employees, nets sales/revenues, total capitalization	Company profile – Scale of activity
2.9	Significant changes during reporting period	Company profile – Significant changes in operation
2.10	Awards	Awards and recognition
3. Report Parameters
3.1	Reporting period	About this report – Reporting period and scope
3.2	Date of previous report	About this report – Reporting period and scope
3.3	Reporting cycle	About this report – Reporting period and scope
3.4	Contact point	About this report – Contact point for questions
3.5	Process for defining report content	About this report – Defining report content
3.6	Boundary of the report	About this report – Reporting period and scope
3.7	Limitations on the scope or boundary of the report	About this report – Reporting period and scope
3.8	Basis for reporting on joint ventures, etc.	About this report – Reporting period and scope
3.9	Data measurement techniques and bases of calculations including assumptions	Environmental performance– energy; water; biodiversity; emissions, effluents, and waste; transport
3.10	Restatements of information	About this report – changes in reporting
3.11	Significant changes from previous reporting periods	About this report – changes in reporting
3.12	GRI Content Index table	Global Reporting Initiative content index
3.13	Policy and practice for seeking independent assurance for report	About this report – Assuring accuracy and reliability in reporting; verification
4. Governance, Commitments & Engagement
4.1	Governance structure including committees	Structure and governance
4.2	Indicate whether chair of highest governance body is also an executive officer	Structure and governance – Board of Directors
4.3	Percent of independent directors	Corporate governance– Board of Directors
4.4	Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations/direction to highest governance body	Structure and governance – Stockholder resolutions
4.5	Linkage between compensation and organization’s performance for members of highest governance body/senior executives	Structure and governance – Compensation and non-financial goals
4.6	Process for the Board to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided	Corporate governance – Guidelines
4.7	Processes for determine qualifications and expertise for guiding strategy	Corporate governance – Guidelines
4.8	Mission and values statements, codes of conduct, principles relevant to economic, environmental and social performance, and status of implementation	Governance structure and management systems – Overarching policies
4.9	Procedures of highest governance body for overseeing economic, environmental and social performance including compliance, codes of conduct	Governance structure and management systems –Operational structure
4.10	Processes for evaluating performance of governance body with respect to economic, environmental and social performance	Corporate governance – Guidelines
4.11	Explanation of how precautionary approach/principle is addressed by organization	Governance structure and management systems – Overarching policies
4.12	Externally developed, voluntary economic, environmental, and social charters, sets of principles, or other initiatives	Overarching policies – Voluntary standards
4.13	Significant memberships in associations and/or advocacy organizations	Overarching policies – Business association memberships
4.14	List of stakeholder groups	Governance Structure and Management Systems: Stakeholder Engagement
4.15	Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage	Governance Structure and Management Systems: Stakeholder Engagement
4.16	Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency and type	Governance Structure and Management Systems: Stakeholder Engagement
4.17	Key issues raised through stakeholder engagement and how organization has responded	Governance Structure and Management Systems: Stakeholder Engagement
Economic Performance Indicators
	Management approach	Economic performance – Management approach
EC1	Direct economic value generated and distributed	Economic performance – customers; Economic performance – employees; Economic performance – public sector
EC2	Financial implications and other risks and opportunities due to climate change	Material issues –Energy and Water
EC3	Coverage of the defined benefit plan obligations	Annual Report
EC8	Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided for public benefit	Social performance – philanthropic contributions
EC9	Indirect impacts	Economic performance – indirect impacts
Environmental Performance Indicators
	Management approach	Environmental performance– Management approach
EN3	Direct energy consumption	Energy use
EN4	Indirect energy consumption	Energy use
EN8	Total water withdrawal	Water use
EN13	Habitats protected or restored	Biodiversity
EN16	Direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions	Environmental performance – Greenhouse gas emissions
EN19	Emissions of ozone-depleting substances	Environmental performance – Ozone-depleting substances
EN20	NO, SO, and other air emissions	Environmental performance – acid gas emissions; priority reduction chemical emissions
EN21	Water discharge	Environmental performance – effluents to water
EN22	Waste	Environmental performance – nonhazardous waste; hazardous waste
EN26	Initiative to mitigate environmental impacts of products	Environmental performance – products and services
EN28	Compliance	Environmental performance – compliance
EN29	Transport	Environmental performance – transport
Social Performance Indicators
	Management approach	Social performance– Management approach
LA3	Benefits	Benefits Program Highlights
LA7	Health and safety rates	Social performance – employees health and safety
LA8	Programs to assist employees, families, or community members regarding serious diseases	Social performance – employees HIV/AIDS in the workplace; pandemic planning; philanthropic contributions
LA11	Skills management and lifelong learning	Social performance – employees training and education
LA13	Diversity	Social performance – employees diversity and work/life integration
HR6	Operations having significant risk for incidents of child labor	Social performance – human rights
HR7	Operations having significant risk for incidents of forced labor	Social performance – human rights
SO5	Public policy development and lobbying	Economic performance – political contributions
SO6	Total value of contributions to political parties, politicians, and related institutions	Economic performance – political contributions
PR6	Program for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related to marketing communications	Social performance– Management approach; Standards of Business Conduct and Ethics; Direct-to-Consumer Communications Code

*In addition to the locations listed in this table, many of the indicators are summarized in the Key Performance Indicators section of this website. For more help in locating sustainability topics, see the site Index.

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