[Now live] Sustainability Update 2024
27. Mai 2024
The annual report on our social and environmental performance, our Sustainability Update 2024, is now available online!
The Sustainability Update is an easy-to-read online magazine which specifically reports on our progress towards our 2030 goals: the progress we made, the actions we took and our next steps.
What else are we reporting on?
The Sustainability Update also links to our more detailed reports: Our GRI content Index, which includes information on our sustainability strategy, stakeholders, material topics and governance, as well as our Social Report and Environmental Report. All reports are publicly available.
Reporting standards
Already since 2020, we transparently report on social and environmental KPIs in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard (Core option): a globally accepted sustainability reporting standard. In the background we are already preparing the required data and reporting template to comply with the new mandatory EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
Results
What do the results look like:
- Living wage
In 2023, at least 42.7% of our key production partners’ employees earned at least a living wage. As you know we have launched our living wage programme in September last year and since that time, together with our partners we are busy calculating whether a living wage is paid or not. For some partners, we already know. Others we are still in the process. For now we can say 42.7% has received a living wage and 2.2% earned less than a living wage
Read more - Circular economy
In 2023, 23% of our turnover came from packaging that delivers the circular economy, compared to 15% in 2021 and 17% in 2022. This is mainly due to more packaging varieties that were labelled as recyclable (70% of total). 25% of turnover came from packaging including recycled content, compared to 23% in 2022. The more packaging we sell made out of renewable materials or recycled content materials which is recyclable or compostable after use, the more we move towards our 80% goal.
Read more - Climate action
In 2023, we emitted 20.6% less greenhouse gas emissions compared to base year 2021. This sounds like a great achievement, but this reduction is almost solely based on the fact that we simply distributed much less products. Selling more circular packaging, and switching to renewable energy sources in our own operations and in transport should help us to reduce emissions in the upcoming years in line with our 50% emission reduction goal, compared to 2021.
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