Climate

Through a new partnership, we’re aiming to develop a variety of sugar cane to extract plant-based oils for use in our cleaning ingredients. Read how this industry-first could support our ambition to deliver net zero emissions across our value chain.

Ahead of the UN climate conference (COP29), Unilever has outlined five ways governments can drive a faster transition to net zero. Learn why we believe governments and business must collaborate to scale up climate action successfully.

Tripling renewables is key to the world reaching net zero. Thomas Lingard, Unilever’s Global Head of Sustainability, Environment, reveals how business innovation, investment and support for infrastructure change and strong national policies can help.

Changing how our ingredients are grown will help protect soil, preserve water, restore nature and build a more resilient supply chain. Learn how we’re working with farmers and partners to roll out regenerative agriculture across 1 million hectares.

Combating climate change needs business and government collaboration. Our CEO Hein Schumacher and former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, explain how working together will help unlock faster emission cuts.

We’re helping a growing number of key suppliers to build their capacity to reduce emissions. Leaders from two packaging businesses, one plastic, one aluminium, share their experiences of our Supplier Climate Programme.

Our new ‘direct dispatch’ model of shipping products from our factories to our retail customers is helping improve the efficiency of our logistics operation. Here we explain what benefits it delivers and where we’re rolling it out.

Unilever Home Care Power Brands Dirt Is Good (Persil) and Comfort are partnering with world-leading consumer technology and domestic appliance company Samsung. Read how, together, we plan to transform the future of home laundry and deliver unmissably superior products.

We’re using innovative technology to help us maintain a deforestation-free supply of palm oil while supporting smallholder farmers in the areas we source from. Rauf Prasodjo, Senior Manager for Sustainable Sourcing at Unilever, explains how.

To help deliver our ambitious climate goals, we’re stepping up our advocacy work to push for systems-level changes that address barriers to faster emissions reduction. But what does that work involve and how do we go about it?

The sun doesn’t just drive our ice cream sales; it also helps power our business in a sustainable way. Find out how solar solutions integrated into our warehouses, fleets and sales kiosks are making energy savings, reducing emissions and contributing to our climate goals.

We’re exploring new technologies that will help make our cleaning products superior and more sustainable. As part of this, we’ve extended our partnership with Econic Technologies: a start-up that’s pioneering a process to replace fossil-based raw materials with renewable carbon.