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We are delighted to announce that we are now using 100% renewable grid electricity across all our factories, offices, R&D facilities, data centres, warehouses and distribution centres.
As far as possible, our transition to renewable electricity has been delivered through supporting the development of local renewable energy markets. This ensures there is plenty of renewable electricity for us and others to use.
We also generate our own power with on-site solar installations at Unilever facilities in 23 countries.
According to Anuvrat Joshi, Business Development Director at Cleantech Solar, one of our supplier partners in India: “Through our partnership with Unilever, we will potentially be generating about three million units of energy every year. That’s the equivalent of planting nearly five thousand trees.”
Now that we have achieved 100% renewable electricity, we’re working to get our entire energy use from renewable sources. We currently have 24 sites that are completely carbon neutral around the world. Our goal is to become entirely carbon neutral across the business before 2030.
Andrea Rickert-Pulvermann is part of the team that’s shifting all our operations over to renewable energy. Here she explains why this is so important for our business, for the planet and for herself.
By 2020 Unilever aims to cut its logistics carbon emissions by 40%. And the goal is to be carbon neutral before 2030. Netherlands Logistics Manager Mark Rickhoff explains how smarter planning, alternative fuels and partnerships with tech start-ups are helping make this happen
Unilever has been identified as a global leader in corporate sustainability and awarded a position on this year’s A List for climate, water and forests by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform.