![]() Our Home Care division’s groundbreaking ‘Clean Future’ programme aims to eliminate fossil fuels from cleaning and laundry products by 2030, shifting away from fossil-fuel-derived carbon (such as petrochemicals) to renewable or recycled carbon (such as carbon from recycled plastics). We’re aiming to reduce emissions from our Home Care products by 60% through concentration and compaction. We’re also rethinking packaging to create more compact products that reach customers in smaller, lighter or dilutable formats – such as Cif ecorefill. Our focus now is on using fewer and different ingredients by concentrating our formulas for products such as laundry liquids and fabric conditioners. We’ve spent years reformulating products to reduce GHG-intensive raw materials such as phosphates in our laundry products – a change that reduced CO 2 emissions by up to 50% per single use by consumers. Innovating with suppliers and partners is key to cutting the carbon emissions of our products. Working with our innovation partners to scale up solutions Together we're striving to collect better data and increase our understanding of the GHG impact of our products. Our suppliers are also crucial to our ambition to communicate the carbon footprint of our products to consumers. The platform aims to reach millions of suppliers as they race towards net zero emissions by 2050. ![]() We’re supporting small and medium-sized suppliers through the SME Climate Hub, which offers tools, knowledge and best practice guidance for reducing emissions. We’ve also joined up with other multinational companies including Maersk, Microsoft and Nike and in the Transform to Net Zero initiative to explore innovative ideas for climate action. Through our membership of the 1.5☌ Supply Chain Leaders initiative, led by the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, we’re collaborating to drive climate action across supply chains with other climate leaders including BT, IKEA and Ericsson. Through the Unilever Climate Programme, we’re offering deeper support and hands-on guidance to a subset of 300 of our suppliers that we believe have the most significant climate impact. We’re also encouraging other companies to work with their suppliers, for example through the 1.5☌ Supplier Engagement Guide, launched by the 1.5☌ Supply Chain Leaders initiative at COP26. The feedback from this pilot is informing the roll out and scaleup of this important Programme in 2023. During 2022, we ran a pilot with 35 suppliers who were able to build their climate knowledge and develop expert capabilities to calculate and share their GHG emissions data. Through the Climate Programme, we are helping a subset of companies to achieve the Climate Promise asks, by providing guidance, tools and resources, for the 300 suppliers whose products have highest climate impact. Suppliers set a Science Based Targets initiative (STBi) aligned target, publicly report on their progress towards meeting this target, and share their product level GHG emissions footprint data with Unilever. The Climate Promise is an opportunity for suppliers to publicly demonstrate that they share our values and are ready to help tackle the climate crisis. That’s why we launched the Unilever Climate Promise (b) and the Unilever Climate Programme. We want our suppliers to come on our climate action journey with us – and we’re supporting them to grow, develop new solutions, scale proven technologies and achieve carbon reductions. Supporting suppliers in taking climate action And we’re prioritising partnerships with new suppliers who already have science-based emissions targets in place. We’re asking existing suppliers to adopt carbon reduction targets to cut their emissions. It will require new levels of collaboration with suppliers who are as ambitious as we are. We can’t achieve our climate goals alone. Collaborating with climate progressive suppliers More information about our climate targets and the role of carbon credits, removals and offsetting can be found in our Climate Transition Action Plan For example, we’re currently considering the recently issued guidance from the Science Based Targets initiative on net zero targets. We fully expect our approach to delivering our commitments to evolve as science progresses and the societal debate on net zero matures. From then onwards, we’ll ensure that any residual emissions are balanced with high-quality, third-party verified carbon removals. We will not meet our net zero target through carbon offsetting before 2039. In the 2020s and 2030s, our primary focus will be to eliminate emissions in our operations and reduce emissions across our value chain rather than purchasing carbon credits. ![]() (a)įind out more about our other climate action goals. We will achieve net zero emissions covering Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 2039.
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