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Equality For All

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15/05/2020 LLong Read

Lessons learnt: new ways of measuring social impact

Finding robust and meaningful ways to measure our impact across all our various social programmes has proved harder than we initially anticipated.

Collaborating & innovating for change

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14/05/2020 2minute read time

Uber–Unilever partnership drives confidence as lockdowns start to ease

As parts of the world start to loosen their lockdowns, a new Unilever–Uber partnership is helping people get back on the move safely

Consuming Sustainably

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13/05/2020 LLong Read

Lessons learnt: Visibility leads to sustainable sourcing

Tracing the origin of every material we buy is a challenge but is essential to guarantee the sustainability that we and our consumers want.

SERIES: Covid response

As the world’s biggest soap-making company, we are throwing our weight behind the global effort to protect lives and livelihoods from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Unilever News

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06/05/2020 LLong Read

Covid-19 support: From Singapore to Slovakia, Bangladesh to Brazil

How we’re supporting global and national efforts to help protect lives and livelihoods

Good health & well-being

Favela in São Paulo. We’re working with Heineken to create special Cif sanitising cleaner for vulnerable families in São Paulo.

30/04/2020 2minute read time

How we’re collaborating to help families in São Paulo’s favelas

In Brazil, we have joined forces with Heineken to create a special line of Cif sanitising cleaner.

Good health & well-being

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27/04/2020 4minute read time

Will Covid-19 change our relationship with food forever?

Our Global Nutrition Director shares her personal views on how the pandemic could change our perspective long-term

Unilever News

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24/04/2020 3minute read time

How we’re adapting deodorant production lines to make hand sanitiser

We have over 30 sites making this essential product, with a lot of supply being donated to frontline healthcare facilities

Covid-19

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15/04/2020 2minute read time

Scientists share skincare expertise to help people taking Covid-19 precautions

Members of our R&D team in China have taken to social media to explain the science behind handwashing and skin cleansing

Covid-19

Handwashing with soap

09/04/2020 4minute read time

Why handwashing with soap helps reduce the spread of Covid-19

How soap works and what makes it so effective in reducing the risk of infection

Covid-19

Image shows a scientist testing a ventilator at Smiths Medical, one of the companies producing equipment as part of the UK Ventilator Challenge consortium.

09/04/2020 2minute read time

Unilever joins consortium which will make ventilators for UK hospitals

We’ve joined Ventilator Challenge UK – a collective manufacturing much-needed ventilators in the coronavirus crisis

Covid-19

Schoolgirl washing hands

02/04/2020 3minute read time

Covid-19 handwashing campaign to target a billion people worldwide

Unilever is working with the UK government to fund a global programme to urgently tackle the spread of coronavirus

Covid-19

Lifebuoy handwashing

24/03/2020 3minute read time

From our CEO: We will fight this pandemic together

Unilever has announced a wide-ranging set of measures to support global and national efforts to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic

Alan Jope

CEO, Unilever

Covid-19

People handwash

16/03/2020

Unilever announces Covid-19 actions for all employees

As a pandemic is announced by the World Health Organization, we are putting global measures into place to protect our employees and their families.

Good health & well-being

Close up of a cleaning product being sprayed and wiped down on a kitchen surface

13/05/2020 4minute read time

Home hygiene and the fight against coronavirus

Our new campaign is all about cleaning smarter, as this Q&A explains

Collaborating & innovating for change

Chef in the dark looking at iPad. Unilever Food Solutions is working to help food operators cope with Covid-19

12/05/2020 5minute read time

Delivering at the sharp end

Six ways Unilever Food Solutions teams are helping foodservice businesses meet emerging needs during Covid-19

Collaborating & innovating for change

Grass grows along the bed of a forest

12/05/2020 5minute read time

The Unilever Compass: our next game-changer for business

Now more than ever is the time for action. Our journey towards making sustainable living commonplace for the world’s 8 billion people continues.

Alan Jope

Alan Jope

CEO, Unilever

Collaborating & innovating for change

Sky view of solar panels

12/05/2020 5minute read time

Lessons learnt: Business must drive systems change

Do we need more progressive public policies to protect the environment? Unilever is well placed to advocate for change.

Protecting The Natural World

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11/05/2020 4minute read time

Lessons learnt: Be ready to move fast

As the world changes, sustainability planning needs to be nimble and flexible

Consuming Sustainably

The back of a women’s head as she washes her hair. Love Beauty & Planet bottle sit on the shelf in front of her

11/05/2020 5minute read time

Lessons learnt: Make sustainable living effortless – and systemic

Much of the environmental impact of our products occurs in consumers’ homes. How can we encourage behaviour change?

Collaborating & innovating for change

Circular Economy

01/11/2018 LLong Read

Explainer: what is the circular economy?

Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply

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07/05/2020 LLong Read

Making sustainable sourcing mainstream

How setting a bar for suppliers helped improve livelihoods and crop standards and let us know where ingredients come from

Collaborating & innovating for change

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07/05/2020 LLong Read

Four ways that sustainability has made us a stronger business

Ten years ago we set out on a journey to become a more sustainable – and better performing – business

Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply

Moroccon food

07/05/2020 3minute read time

Reinventing food for humanity

Over the last ten years, Knorr has been working to create food that’s good for people and for the planet.

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Why gender equality matters to Unilever

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24/05/2020

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