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
G4-EC2, Energy G4-DMA, Emissions G4-DMA
CDP climate action initiatives
At the UN Climate Summit in September 2014, Nestlé
announced its endorsement of the CDP’s six climate action
initiatives, committing to:
• Adopt evidence-based GHG emissions reduction targets
that will help limit global warming to below 2°C, aided by
the ‘Mind the Science, Mind the Gap’ methodology
developed by CDP, UNGC, the WRI and World Wide Fund
for Nature (WWF) (read more here);
• Having a strategy to procure 100% of electricity from
renewable sources within the shortest practical timescale
(see below);
• Removing commodity-driven deforestation from our supply
chains;
• Providing climate change information in mainstream
corporate filings;
• Responsibly engaging policy-makers on climate change
policy; and
• Putting a price on carbon.
Paris Pledge for Action
To affirm our strong commitment to a safe and stable climate,
in which temperature rise is limited to under 2°C, Nestlé has
signed the Paris Pledge for Action. In doing so, we welcomed
the adoption of a new, universal climate agreement at COP 21
in Paris in December 2015, a critical step on the path to solving
climate change, and pledged our support to ensuring that the
ambition set by the agreement is met or exceeded.
American Business Act on Climate
Nestlé is also one of 81 companies to sign the American
Business Act on Climate pledge. The signatories are
demonstrating their support for action on climate change and
the conclusion of a climate change agreement in Paris that takes
a strong step forward toward a low-carbon, sustainable future.
Other climate action initiatives
We have put our support behind a number of additional major
initiatives by leading international organisations. These include
the ‘Trillion Tonne Communiqué’ by the Prince of Wales’s
Corporate Leaders Group and the ‘New York Declaration on
Forests’.
As chair of the Environmental Sustainability Committee of
FoodDrinkEurope, we actively participated in the development
of the Time to Act: Climate Action and the Food and Drink
Industry report. It shows that 95% of the respondents have
already integrated climate change into their business strategy.
It also stresses that the ‘whole of society’ needs to address
this challenge, and must be galvanised by an ambitious, global
climate deal. FoodDrinkEurope therefore called upon
governments to reach an ambitious agreement on a new
global framework for climate change at COP 21 in Paris in
December 2015.
CGF highlights Nestlé’s climate
change actions
At the Business and Climate Summit in Paris in June 2015, the
CGF, co-chaired by Nestlé Chief Executive Officer Paul Bulcke,
published its first-ever Climate Change booklet.
The publication, launched during Paris Climate Week,
highlights 18 real-life examples from Nestlé and other CGF
members, detailing how they are making business changes to
have a better impact on the climate. Each case study includes
insight from the respective company’s CEO, details about their
positive business actions on the issue described and key data
to support their progress.
The climate challenge is one we all need to
take up; the time for talk is over. Our retailer and
manufacturer members know this, and this booklet
showcases how some of them are working
individually and collectively to drive positive
change globally.”
Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The
Consumer Goods Forum
CDP report calls for lower agricultural emissions
According to the global non-profit group CDP, many
multinational food and beverage brands are missing their
biggest chance to address climate risks, and need to work
more closely with suppliers to improve agricultural emissions.
However, it commends Nestlé for being in a small group that
lies ‘ahead of the pack’ in approaching climate mitigation in
their agricultural supply chains.
The report, The forgotten 10%: Climate mitigation in
agricultural supply chains, assessed data from 97 major food,
beverage and tobacco companies, of which fewer than a
quarter reported data on agricultural GHG emissions in their
supply chains. The biggest source of GHG emissions in the food
and beverage industry comes from agricultural production, yet
less than a quarter of the companies in the survey reported
their indirect GHG emissions from agricultural production.
The report states the need for businesses to shift their focus
to target agricultural production emissions directly, and calls on
companies to cut emissions from this stage of the supply chain.
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