While the overall priority dimensions of our 2030+ Sustainability Ambition Framework remained relevant, we took the opportunity to update and prioritize our sustainability targets in 2025 – to see us through from 2026 to the end of 2030. We now focus on 12 targets and 15 commitments that run until 2030. With each of the targets, we aim to achieve a specific KPI. With each of the commitments, we emphasize that we are taking action.
Targets & Achievements
We know that the world around us, the expectations of our stakeholders and the opportunities for advancing sustainability are in constant transformation. For this reason, we regularly review and update our strategy with tangible targets as we go forward. In 2025, we conducted a comprehensive target review process to address the targets that expired in 2025 and to further accelerate progress.
Our 2030 Targets & Commitments
ENVIRONMENT
Regenerative Planet
Climate
Targets
Circularity
Targets
Commitments
* Excluding dangerous goods.
** Excluding dangerous goods and products where ingredients or residue may affect recyclability or pollute recycling streams.
Nature
Targets
* Through water reduction and recycling activities at our sites and restoration activities in priority watersheds
Social
Thriving Communities
Equity
Targets
Commitments
* In compliance with local laws and regionally tailored approaches.
Education
Commitments
Wellbeing
Commitments
GOVERNANCE
Trusted Partner
Collaboration
Targets
Commitments
Performance
Commitments
Transparency
Commitments
Our Achievements 2025
The following overview shows our ambitions and targets that we had set ourselves to advance our sustainability transformation, as well as the target achievement level for the year 2025. While the ambitions generally embraced a long-term time horizon, we defined them in concrete terms by setting medium-term and measurable targets.
Achieved 2025 | |||
| REGENERATIVE PLANET | CLIMATE | - 42 % absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions (2030; vs. 2021) | -50% |
| - 30 % absolute scope 3 GHG emissions (2030; vs. 2021) | -28% | ||
| - 90 % absolute scope1, 2, 3 GHG emissions (2045; vs. 2021) | -29% | ||
| – 100 million tons of CO2 with customers, consumers and suppliers (2016–2025) | Achieved since 2024 | ||
| CIRCULARITY | No plastic waste into nature | Ambition | |
| >30 % share of recycled plastic for all packaging of our consumer goods products (2025) | 28% | ||
| 100 % of packaging designed for recycling or reusability1 (2025) | 88% | ||
| -50 % production waste per metric ton of product (2025; vs. 2010) | -41% | ||
| Circular use of production waste material (2030) | Ambition | ||
| NATURE | Encourage the responsible use of our products to reduce water consumption | Ambition | |
| -35 % water withdrawal in m2 per ton of product (2025; vs. 2010) | -22% | ||
| Circular water use at key manufacturing sites (2030) | Ambition | ||
| 100 % paper and cardboard materials recycled or sourced from sustainable origins (2025) | 98% | ||
| 100 % palm and palm kernel oil responsibly sourced and certified or externally verified (2025) | 98% | ||
| THRIVING COMMUNITIES | EQUITY | Gender parity across all management levels (2025) | 43% |
| Improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers and protection of nature | >39,900 smallholders | ||
| EDUCATION | Expand our community education programs and volunteering | Ambition | |
| Engage and empower all employees to take action for sustainability | Ambition | ||
| Improve 30 million lives globally (2010–2030) | Achieved since 2022 | ||
| WELLBEING | Shape the future of work for our company and employees | Ambition | |
| +60 % safer per million hours worked (2025; vs. 2010) | +59% | ||
| Reach >90 % of our employees with global health campaigns (each year) | >90 % | ||
| TRUSTED PARTNER | COLLABORATION | 100 % responsible sourcing together with our partners | Ambition |
| PERFORMANCE | Each new product contributes to sustainability | Ambition | |
| Provide our customers and consumers with a comprehensive sustainability profile of our products (2025) | Method under development | ||
| Become three times more efficient (2030; vs. 2010) – Factor 3 | 195% | ||
| TRANSPARENCY | 100 % transparency and traceability for palm and palm kernel oil (2025) | 95% |
1 Excluding products where ingredients or residue may affect recyclability or pollute recycling streams.
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Our Sustainability Ambition Framework
Our 2030+ Sustainability Ambition Framework sets the frame for our global sustainability strategy and covers the three dimensions of ESG: Environment, Social and Governance.
