Nestle : Nestlé recognised for climate change leadership
October 25, 2016 at 02:27 pm IST
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Nestlé has been recognised as a global leader in tackling climate change, earning a place on Climate A List.
Nestlé is among the 9 per cent of participating companies to be awarded an A grade, in recognition of the company's work to reduce emissions and tackle climate change.
The grade was received following an independent assessment of Nestlé's climate change report. As part of our commitment to provide climate change leadership, Nestlé is one of the thousands of companies to submit a report to the for assessment.
In the recent reporting year, we surpassed our objective to reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of product and have almost halved our emissions since 2005.
We are committed to further reducing our greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1+2) per tonne of product by 35 per cent, by 2020 (compared to 2010) in line with the Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
Nestlé's inclusion on the A List comes after the company received an industry leading score of 100 in the environment and climate change dimension of the 2016 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
The Climate A List is released in Out of the starting blocks: Tracking progress on corporate climate action report - download the report (pdf, 7Mb)
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Nestlé S.A. is the world's leading agri-food group. Net sales break down by category of products as follows:
- powdered and liquid beverages (26.7%): soluble coffees (Nescafé and Starbucks brands), coffee in capsules (Nespresso), chocolate drinks (Nesquik, Milo, etc.), tea drinks (Nestea), etc.;
- pet food (20.3%): brands such as Purina, Friskies, Felix, etc.;
- pharmaceutical, nutrition and well-being products (16.4%): nutritional supplements (Resource, Boost, Nutren, Optifast, Peptamen brands, etc.), infant and maternal nutrition products (NAN, illuma, Cerelac, Nido, Gerber), ketogenic beverages (BrainXpert), (Nesquick, Fitness, Cheerios, Lion, etc.), etc.;
- ready meals and seasoning products (12.5%): frozen and chilled dishes (Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets and Stouffer's brands), soups (Maggi), etc.;
- dairy products and ice cream (11.8%): powdered milk, sweetened condensed milk, yoghurt and cream desserts, ice cream (Nido, Nesvita, Carnation, La Laitière, Coffee Mate, Nestlé Ice Cream, Dreyers, Häagen-Dazs, Extrême brands, etc.);
- chocolates, sweets and biscuits (8.7%): Kit Kat, Smarties, Cailler, Terrafertil, etc. brands;
- bottled waters (3.6%): Nestlé Pure Life, Vittel, Perrier, S. Pellegrino, etc. brands.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Switzerland (1.2%), France (3.8%), the United Kingdom (3.8%), Germany (2.4%), Europe (12.8%), the United States and Canada (35%), China (5.9%), Asia and Oceania (21.4%) and Latin America (13.7%).