Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness Rural development Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
Materials G4-DMA, G4-EN1, Energy G4-DMA, G4-EN3, G4-EN4, Biodiversity G4-DMA, Emissions G4-DMA, G4-EN15, G4-EN16, Effluents and waste G4-DMA, Products and
services G4-DMA, Compliance G4-DMA (Environmental), Transport G4-DMA, Overall G4-DMA, Supplier environmental assessment G4-DMA, Environmental grievance mechanisms G4-DMA
Training our employees
We are committed to environmental awareness training and
education for our employees, alongside effective
communication with them, and recognition of their initiatives
and achievements towards environmental improvement.
To strengthen our ability to meet our commitments, we ran
environmental awareness training sessions in 89 countries in
2015, and plan to extend this to all countries of operation by
2016. During the year, more than 4000 Nestlé employees
around the world undertook the Environmental Sustainability
at Nestlé e-learning course, to enhance their knowledge and
learn how to apply environmentally sustainable business
practices.
During 2015, we delivered 16 sessions of the Nestlé
Environmental Sustainability Leadership workshop, ‘We make
Nestlé resourceful’, to 245 employees in Australia, Brazil,
China, Dubai, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines,
Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and
Venezuela. We also continued deploying our train-the-trainers
plan to assist in the wider reach of this workshop across
our markets.
Additionally, senior managers had the opportunity to attend
the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme at
Cambridge University.
Learn more about employee training in Our people.
Sharing our progress
Nestlé’s strong policies, continuous improvement and
transparent reporting in the area of environmental
sustainability are being reflected in external recognition, as
outlined below.
• As in 2014, we again achieved an industry-leading score of
99 out of 100 in the ‘environmental dimension’ of the 2015
Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The environmental
section of the index is based on an analysis of companies’
performance in areas including environmental
management, environmental reporting, climate strategy,
water risk, packaging, genetically modified organisms, raw
material sourcing and eco-efficiency; and
• In November 2015, we received a Climate Change Award
from the environmental sustainability ratings agency CDP,
having achieved the maximum score of 100 A in the Climate
Disclosure Leadership Index. The CDP indices measure how
more than 4700 companies incorporate climate change into
their business plans, monitor emissions, report transparently
and act to mitigate impacts. Our score makes us one of only
64 companies on the Climate A List, which recognises
companies that are leading the way with their actions to
reduce emissions and mitigate climate change.
We also received recognition for our efforts to manage water
use and mitigate water risks.
Environmental sustainability at Nestlé
Overall we are delivering in key areas
WASTE
105 factories worldwide
have achieved
Zero waste
for disposal
Waste for disposal
(kg per tonne of product)
3.0
8.7
2015
2009
2005
But using resources
more efficiently
Direct greenhouse gas emissions
per tonne of product (kg CO 2 )
2015
2009
97
68
12.0
2005
118
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
Spent coffee grounds being used to
power our factories account for:
21.4%
of our renewable energy use
% of on-site energy consumption
from renewable sources
15.4%
2015
12.2% 2012
Total
production
volume
(million tonnes)
54.6
2015
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