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Equality For All View all

Becoming a micro-entrepreneur in rural Colombia

19/02/2019 4minute read time

Becoming a micro-entrepreneur in rural Colombia

Our Shakti Project in the Middle Americas is empowering women

Cocoa farmers in Ghana

10/12/2018 4minute read time

Human Rights: Making a positive and lasting impact

Here’s how we’re addressing eight salient human rights in our supply chain

Woman Tea Plucker

07/12/2018 LLong Read

Breaking the silence, ending harassment, keeping women safe

UN Women with the support of Unilever has created a new global framework to increase the safety of women in agricultural supply chains

Unilever employee showcasing the product catalogue

01/11/2018 5minute read time

Social investing: why it’s time to get gender-smart

Introducing our new Lean Data toolkit designed to improve outcomes for women

Young girl eating Ben & Jerry's

20/06/2018 5minute read time

Three innovative ways we help refugees… and they help us

How we’re helping displaced people to rebuild their lives while working to make our business more resilient

Collaborating & innovating for change View all

Changemaker Eric Smeding

15/02/2019 4minute read time

“Everybody does laundry yet 90% get the detergent dosage wrong”

Eric Smeding is leading a home-grown Unilever start-up which wants to change how people use detergent

Buenos Aires residents

07/02/2019 2minute read time

How we’re helping Buenos Aires residents make recycling a habit

Working with the city’s government, we have extended a programme that encourages people to throw away less and recycle more

Loop delivery

24/01/2019 4minute read time

We’re introducing reusable, refillable packaging to help cut waste

Nine Unilever brands have unveiled reusable packaging innovations that we’re trialling on LOOP, a waste-free shopping system

WISE_PCR

18/01/2019 3minute read time

How we’re helping to develop Brazil’s plastic packaging circular economy

Our ultimate aim is to increase the demand for recycled plastic which will, in turn, increase recycling rates

Plastic waste

06/12/2018 3minute read time

The plastic-free concept that could replace single-use sachets

We challenged designers, innovators and packaging experts to come up with new ways to use less plastic. Now we’re bringing the best idea to life.

Unilever News View all

Love Home and Planet

25/01/2019 2minute read time

Introducing Love Home and Planet: plant-based home care

Unilever has just launched its first home care range inspired by beauty in the US.

Sir Kensington Mayonnaise

21/09/2018 2minute read time

Sir Kensington’s becomes a B-Corp

“As our business grows, our impact grows.”

Woman planting

13/09/2018 2minute read time

Unilever named as industry leader in Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Our 17th year at the top shows our commitment to sustainable growth

influencer recording on a camera

23/07/2018 2minute read time

When it comes to influencer relationships, it’s complicated

Unilever’s Keith Weed calls time on fake followers and bots

Keith Weed

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Unilever

Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2018 winners

15/06/2018 4minute read time

The Young Entrepreneurs Awards: four life-changing reasons to enter

Recognising and supporting a new generation of the world’s most brilliant young changemakers

Good health & well-being View all

YEA group

18/12/2018 4minute read time

12 ways we made a difference in 2018

From tackling plastics to social entrepreneurship, vaccines to beauty – our business is a force for good around the world. Here are 12 ways we made an impact in 2018.

Hands up who thinks all schools should have clean toilets?

19/11/2018 LLong Read

Hands up who thinks all schools should have clean toilets?

How access to safe, clean toilets can improve pupils’ wellbeing and learning

Adepeju Jaiyeoba, winner of the Prince of Wales Prize at Unilever’s Young Entrepreneur Awards 2018

31/10/2018 4minute read time

The woman making childbirth safer for thousands

A woman dies in childbirth in Nigeria every ten minutes. Adepeju Jaiyeoba is changing the story.

Children washing their hands

15/10/2018 4minute read time

We’re high-fiving for Global Handwashing Day

We talk to five people helping deliver Lifebuoy’s handwashing programmes with impact

Selection of vegetables

08/08/2018 LLong Read

“Providing people with good nutrition is a privilege”

Annie Heremans on the goals driving our Foods & Refreshment portfolio

Annie Heremans, VP, Nutrition

Annie Heremans

Vice President of Nutrition at Unilever

Protecting The Natural World View all

Worker working for palm oil

14/12/2018 4minute read time

Breakthrough on palm oil transparency to stop deforestation

A new mapping platform means a tougher stance against companies that are linked to deforestation.

Employees at Mr Green

03/07/2018 4minute read time

Waste isn’t waste when it has a value

Changing how waste is perceived could have a hugely positive impact on society as well as the environment

Keiran Smith, Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa

Keiran Smith

Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa

Fish eating plastic

05/02/2018 3minute read time

Four things businesses can do to fix the plastics problem

Interview with Dame Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman

Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman

Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman

Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation; CEO, Unilever (respectively)

Plastic waste on a beach

06/12/2017 3minute read time

Towards a new plastics economy

Our planet is awash with plastic. Here’s how we hope a circular approach will help tackle the problem

Palm oil woman farmers

27/10/2017

How supporting independent palm oil farmers will have a big impact on deforestation

As one of the world’s largest palm oil end users, we’re committed to ensuring our ingredients don’t come at the expense of the environment or people.

Consuming Sustainably View all

Lynsey Forrest holding a bottle of Omo Eco Active

25/10/2018 2minute read time

The detergent brand creating a circular plastics economy

How OMO’s new bottles will prevent millions of tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean

Employees at Mr Green

03/07/2018 4minute read time

Waste isn’t waste when it has a value

Changing how waste is perceived could have a hugely positive impact on society as well as the environment

Keiran Smith, Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa

Keiran Smith

Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa

Seventh Generation products

05/06/2018 4minute read time

“Every day is an opportunity to create change”

Plant-based homecare brand Seventh Generation’s packaging expert on the route to zero waste

Kelly Murosky

Senior Packaging Engineer at Seventh Generation.

Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste at World Resources Institute

21/11/2017

Five steps to reduce food loss and waste

Did you know that one-third of all food produced each year is never eaten, while at the same time nearly 800 million people go hungry? In the latest in our ‘Farm to Fork’ series, Liz Goodwin of the World Resources Institute explores what can be done about food loss and waste.

Amanda Sourry at the Unilever Investor Seminar 2016

06/10/2017

Plant-based diets: a game-changer benefiting both people and planet

As Vegetarian Awareness Month begins, Amanda Sourry, Unilever President, Foods & Refreshment, talks about the benefits of plant-based diets and why we are supporting this growing trend.

Climate Action View all

Ben and Jerry's climate action

21/09/2018 4minute read time

What are science-based targets and why do we use them?

By sticking to the Paris Agreement we are part of a groundswell in climate ambition.

Thomas Lingard, Global Climate Advocacy & Sustainability Strategy Director

Thomas Lingard

Global Climate Advocacy & Sustainability Strategy Director

Turbines on a coastline

31/07/2018 LLong Read

Explainer: what is carbon pricing and why is it important?

Elisabeth Latham

07/06/2018 3minute read time

“I didn’t want my ideas to collect dust”

Cow burps, climate change and a scientist on a mission. Meet the woman behind the story

Elisabeth Latham

Elizabeth Latham

Founder of the Sustainable Protein and Environment Initiative

Marmite jars on the production line

02/02/2018

Unilever recognised as a leader in tackling supply chain emissions

We have been identified as a global leader – by CDP, the non-profit environmental disclosure platform – for our actions and strategies to manage carbon and climate change across our supply chain.

Hannah Hislop, Global Advocacy & Partnerships Manager

16/11/2017

Why forests hold the key to halting irreversible climate change

Over the past two weeks, nations have been meeting at the UN’s Climate Change negotiations (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, to drive action on tackling climate change. One important talking point has been the hugely damaging impact of deforestation. We asked Hannah Hislop, our Global Advocacy & Partnerships Manager, about the issue and what must be done.

Access To Water View all

Hands under running tap

29/08/2018 5minute read time

‘Impact entrepreneurs’: making everyone’s right to safe water a reality

We explore insights into how entrepreneurs can turn the water challenge into a success

Washing clothes by hand in a bowl

22/03/2018 3minute read time

Kees Kruythoff: Why water scarcity is everyone’s problem

Interview with Kees Kruythoff, President of Unilever Home Care

Kees Kruythoff, Home Care President

Kees Kruythoff

Home Care President and Chair of Unilever’s Water Board

Quality Education View all

Two children looking at soil

17/05/2018 3minute read time

The problem with our schools? There’s not enough playtime.

Interview with leading educator and bestselling author, Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson

Educator and author

18/03/2013

Unilever celebrates healthy smiles

Unilever, through its Signal toothpaste brand, is sponsoring World Oral Health Day 2013 as part of its ongoing commitment to improve the oral hygiene habits of millions of people around the world.

08/12/2012

Unilever helps bring art education to 45,000 children

Unilever’s partnership with the Tate gallery has produced an inspiring legacy for many thousands of current and future schoolchildren across the world.

Social Media

YouTube

Growing Roots

Technology that could cut PET plastic waste

Building trust in fragrance ingredients

Thriving in an Upside Down World by Leena Nair

Connecting talented young Syrians with business leaders

Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2017: Meet the winner and finalists

Explainer: Carbon Pricing

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From naturally pest-resistant grains to vitamin-rich flowers, edible cacti and drought-defying roots, @Knorr & @WWF… https://t.co/QW7TShUM3j

20/02/2019

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