Unilever Sustainable Living Plan Progress Report 2011

4 Unilever Sustainable Living Plan Progress Report 2011
oUr iMPacts
AcRoSS THE VALUE cHAIn
The sourcing of raw materials and the use of our products by the
Raw materials
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Manufacture and
transport
To minimise our impacts and effect broader change, we progress
Working collaboratively across the supply chain
to effect meaningful change in complex global supply chains we act with others
to create new standards, new frameworks and new forms of governance
In agriculture we work with
n The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm oil (RSPo)
n The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)
n The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI Platform)
n The World Economic Forum’s new Vision for Agriculture
n The consumer Goods Forum
n WWF n Greenpeace n oxfam
n Rainforest Alliance n Fairtrade
Working as Unilever in the supply chain
sometimes acting alone can catalyse change across the industry
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in 2007 we were the first
large company to commit to
sustainable sourcing of tea
Many tea companies have followed us
We will source all our
cocoa sustainably by 2020
Knorr has established a €1 million
Partnership Fund to help farmers
on climate change we work with
n The Prince of Wales’s corporate Leaders Group on climate change
n World Resources Institute (WRI)
n The Sustainability consortium
on water issues we work with
n The Un’s cEo Water Mandate
n The Water Footprint network
n The World Business council for Sustainable Development (WBcSD)
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
in 2008 we committed to draw all
of our palm oil from certified
sustainable sources by 2015
Much of the industry has followed
Ben & Jerry’s are asking Fairtrade
to certify their key ingredients
Our sustainable agriculture code
is an open source document available to
our suppliers and others