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FRAMEWORK OF HOW
SUSTAINABILITY SUPPORTS
BUSINESS SUCCESS
MORE GROWTH
Sustainable Living
brands grew
2x faster in 2014
LOWER COSTS
Over €600m avoided costs
(2008-2015)
MORE TRUST
No.1 employer in
34 countries
LESS RISK
60% of agricultural
materials sustainably
sourced
We launched the Unlever Sustanable
Lvng Plan (USLP) n 2010 It set three
ambtous goals for 2020 to help more
than 1 bllon people mprove ther
health and well-beng to halve the
envronmental mpact of our products
and to enhance the lvelhoods of
mllons of people through all elements
of the value chan
We use a smple framework to show
how sustanablty s helpng us delver
more growth, lower costs, less rsk
and more trust It provdes our people
wth further strategc gudance across
our categores and brands
Inspred by the USLP, we see a growng
number of Sustanable Lvng brands n
our overall portfolo In 2014, the last full
year for whch complete data s avalable,
we had 11 Sustanable Lvng brands The
2015 Sustanable Lvng brands wll be
hghlghted n our onlne Sustanable Lvng
Report 2015 to be publshed n Aprl 2016
at wwwunlevercom/sustanable-lvng
The defnton of Sustanable Lvng brands
s underpnned by a rgorous methodology
whch measures the performance of those
brands contrbutng to postve socal and
envronmental change In 2014, these
brands grew at double the rate of our other
brands and accounted for half our growth
We have made sgnfcant progress on
our frst bg USLP goal of helpng more
than 1 bllon people mprove ther health
and well-beng By the end of 2015, we
had reached 482 mllon people, led by
the success of Sustanable Lvng brands
such as Lfebuoy, Dove and Sgnal through
programmes carred out snce 2005
In addton, 34% of our Foods portfolo
met the hghest nutrtonal standards
Our manufacturng operatons play a
maor role n our efforts to realse our
second man goal of reducng our
envronmental mpact We have cut O2
from energy by 36%, water abstracton
by 34% and total waste dsposed by 97% n
our manufacturng operatons snce 2008
However, when t comes to reducng the
envronmental mpact of how consumers
use our products we contnue to fnd ths
more dffcult Snce 2010, the water mpact
of our products has reduced by 1%, whle
the waste assocated wth consumer
dsposal of our products has reduced by
rather more – 29% Ths means that we
are more than half way on our ourney
towards halvng packagng waste, partly
through dvestments but also through
our nnovaton proects on lghtweghtng,
as well as nfrastructural mprovements
n recyclng and recovery But the
greenhouse gas mpact of our products
across the lfecycle, ncludng consumer
use, contnues to edge up and has now
ncreased by 6% snce 2010
Ths contnues the trend we reported on
last year We reman commtted, despte
ths, to a full value chan approach to
reducng our envronmental mpact, snce
that most meanngfully reflects the true
mpact of our busness Over the last fve
years we have learned whch levers we
can pull on our own to effect change, and
where we rely on the much slower process
of system change As a result, we are
sharpenng our nternal strategy and wll
be refnng our target durng 2016 We
have already announced a new target to
be carbon postve (e to go beyond beng
carbon neutral) wthn our own operatons
by 2030
Our thrd USLP goal – to enhance the
lvelhoods of mllons of people – has seen
good progress We sourced 60% of our
agrcultural raw materals sustanably and
54% of procurement spend was through
supplers meetng our Responsble Sourcng
Polcy’s mandatory crtera In 2015 we
publshed our frst Human Rghts Report
(see page 30) Snce 2006, n partnershp
wth others, we enabled around 800,000
women to access ntatves that amed to
develop ther sklls, made up of 70,000
mcro-entrepreneurs n Inda and around
730,000 on tea smallholdngs n Kenya and
Inda We also enabled around 600,000
smallholder farmers and 18 mllon
small-scale retalers to access ntatves
whch amed to mprove ther agrcultural
practces or ncrease ther sales
USLP PRORESS
1 14,000
women are beneftng from
our Radant programme,
through detergent brands
Rn n Inda and Brlhante
n Brazl
300,000
followers of our global
Ben & Jerry’s ‘Save Our
Swrled’ campagn
80%
of people partcpatng n
our Flora ProActv ‘It Takes
A Vllage’ campagn have
reduced ther cholesterol
71 mllon
Our Brush Day & Nght oral
health campagns have
reached 71 mllon people
through brands such as
Sgnal and Pepsodent SUSTAINABLE
LIVIN
BRANDS
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