Leading the next era of corporate sustainability | Unilever
️Fri Feb 07 2025
Fewer things, done better, with greater impact
Our Growth Action Plan addresses these challenges head-on. In the coming years, our focus will be on four sustainability priorities.
Climate
Our ambition is to deliver net zero emissions across our value chain.
Nature
Our ambition is to deliver resilient and regenerative natural and agricultural ecosystems.
Plastics
Our ambition is an end to plastic pollution through reduction, circulation and collaboration.
Livelihoods
Our ambition is to ensure a decent livelihood for people in our global value chain, including by earning a living wage.
The first era was about ringing the alarm. The second was about setting long-term ambitions. The third is about delivering impact faster, by making sustainability progress integral to business performance.
We intend to lead in this new era by being:
More focused in allocating our resources
using capital allocation to make progress across our sustainability priorities.
More urgent in our actions
with roadmaps, clear accountability and reward.
More systemic in our advocacy
through deeper collaboration and more assertive policy advocacy.
"Our updated commitments are very stretching, but they are also intentionally and, unashamedly, realistic. We are determined that Unilever will deliver against them."
Hein Schumacher, CEO
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