Our approach
Welcome to Unilever's report on our approach to sustainable development including an account of our performance on the sustainability issues facing our business.
Here we address the following questions:
How do Unilever's business activities affect the environment and society?
How do Unilever's brands make a difference to the health and well-being of consumers?
How is Unilever addressing the sustainability challenges related to the sourcing of agricultural raw materials, climate change, water and packaging?
How do Unilever's operations create wealth and how does this benefit stakeholders such as employees and suppliers, and local communities?
How do we manage the sustainability and corporate responsibility issues related to some of our key stakeholders including consumers, customers, employees, suppliers, local communities and government?
We have produced a Sustainable Development Overview 2008 – a 32-page printed publication that explores the topics we have identified as our most material issues. These include nutrition, hygiene, sustainable agricultural sourcing, climate change and more. The Overview explains how we are integrating sustainability into our business and brands and through them contributing to improved health, nutrition and hygiene. The Sustainable Development Overview is available to download from our Publications section.
Our full Sustainable Development Report 2008 is available in html and incorporates all the topics covered in the Overview and more. The Report will be available as a pdf download from May 2009.
