Our Climate Transition Action Plan
Our Climate Transition Action Plan, updated in 2024, sets out our actions to lower our emissions by 2030.
A business imperative
Climate change is a significant threat to people and our planet. It is also a material risk to our business. We’ve set more ambitious climate targets and identified clearer actions to respond to this challenge.
There are no quick fixes, especially given the nature of our business and value chain. But we firmly believe more urgent action can strengthen Unilever.
Regenerative farming can make our supply chain more resilient by protecting crops against extreme weather. Using renewable energy and recovering waste heat in our operations can help to make us more efficient and less exposed to volatile energy markets. And reformulating our products and moving to better packaging can offer consumers more sustainable products.
Reducing emissions
Our ambition is to reach net zero across our value chain by 2039, and our focus is on reducing our emissions by 2030 in line with what science says is needed.
With around 98% of our value chain emissions occurring outside our own operations, influencing our supply partners, and leading by example, are critical.
We’ve strengthened our value chain targets to raise our ambition and distinguish between industrial emissions, and those linked to land and agriculture – reflecting the need for different approaches. We continue to focus on absolute emissions reductions in the areas we can influence most.
Delivering on our ambitious targets is our priority.
Our goals
We have three near-term targets:
Our operations
Reduce absolute operational GHG emissions (Scope 1 & 2) by 100% by 2030 from a 2015 baseline
Our value chain – energy and industrial
Reduce absolute Scope 3 energy and industrial GHG emissions[a] by 42% by 2030 from a 2021 baseline
Our value chain – forest, land and agriculture
Reduce absolute Scope 3 forest, land and agriculture (FLAG) GHG emissions[b] by 30.3% by 2030 from a 2021 baseline
Driving widescale change
Our updated Climate Transition Action Plan (CTAP) focuses on ten action areas where we can best drive positive impact by 2030. Some of these are:
- Growing our Supplier Climate Programme to help key suppliers become climate leaders
- Investing in deforestation-free supply chains
- Reformulating products to use lower-emissions ingredients without compromising performance
Alongside actions like these, we’re pushing hard for system-level change. Change that will address barriers to faster emissions reduction, in each of our ten action areas and overall.
The climate challenge is huge. And we’re facing it head-on.
More about our sustainability work
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Using our voice for a zero carbon future
We’re calling on everyone - businesses, governments and international alliances - to come together to tackle climate change.
Deforestation-free supply chain
We’re working to ensure a deforestation-free supply chain as part of our efforts to protect nature, tackle climate change and promote human rights.
Unilever Climate & Nature Fund
We have a goal to invest €1 billion in climate, nature, and waste reduction projects.
Putting the chemicals industry on a pathway to net zero
We’re working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from chemicals by collaborating with suppliers, reformulating some of our products, and pushing for the chemicals industry to transform.
Unilever Annual Report
Read more about our Growth Action Plan and how we are stepping up our execution to deliver improved performance.
Our commitment to responsible business
Find out more about our progress and reporting on issues such as human rights, equity, diversity and inclusion, and safety.
Our Climate Transition Action Plan
Our Climate Transition Action Plan, updated in 2024, sets out our actions to lower our emissions by 2030.
Our other sustainability topics
Nature
The world – and our business – needs resilient natural and agricultural ecosystems to thrive. We’re committed to contributing to the protection and regeneration of nature, within and beyond our value chain.
Plastics
We’ve been working hard to create a circular economy for plastic packaging for a number of years. We’ve learnt that transformation takes time. Given the size of this challenge, we’re using our innovation capabilities to find new, scalable solutions.
Livelihoods
The impacts of inequality go far beyond income – to health, human rights and economic growth. So we’re working to improve the livelihoods of people in our global value chain.
[a]
Energy and industrial emissions from purchased goods and services (associated with ingredients, packaging), upstream transport and distribution, energy and fuel-related activities, direct emissions from use of sold products (associated with HFC propellants), end-of-life treatment of sold products, and downstream leased assets (associated with ice cream retail cabinets).
[b]
FLAG emissions from purchased goods and services (associated with ingredients).