Sustainability spans every area of our business and is a crucial way we add value to our customers.
Smart science to improve lives™ - underpins our commitment to sustainability. Smart science embodies our innovative philosophy and ability to offer customers something different and valuable. Improving lives describes the positive impact our products have in use and how we are working to reduce the environmental impact of our actions.
Our commitment to sustainability is a fundamental aspect of how we work, how we are judged, and how we judge ourselves, as we decouple our continued growth and increasing shareholder value from our impacts on the environment.
Through our Commitment to science-based targets and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we will be the most sustainable supplier of innovative ingredients. We will create, make and sell solutions to tackle some of the biggest challenges the world is facing. We will be Climate, Land and People Positive by 2030.
Sustainability means doing business the right way, adapting and challenging ourselves to meet business needs, today and in the future. Our focus on sustainability evolves as the world changes; it has always been and will remain a central element of how we do business.
Our first product was lanolin, a natural sustainable ingredient created from processing sheep’s wool for textiles. Today, our approach to sustainability comes in many shapes and forms.
Committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs underpin our Commitment. Twenty-Three out of the 169 targets that sit below the SDGs are drivers of our strategy; those where we must reduce our negative impacts and where we can make the biggest positive contributions. The targets are grouped around the themes of climate, nature and society, hence our Commitment to be Climate, Land and People Positive.
Sustainability leadership
We launched our Commitment in 2020, externally benchmarking our targets with the support of CISL to ensure our ambitions aligned with expectations of a sustainability leader in our industry. We have a restorative strategy, designed to ensure that planet and society are better off as a result of our activities, and we are not only mitigating against negative impacts.
