Tackle climate change

The climate crisis, as acknowledged by the international community, threatens the livelihoods of all, but especially those most vulnerable, exacerbating inequalities. It impacts human rights, biodiversity, water access, global health, and food security, and intensifies environmental threats such as ecosystem degradation, drought, flooding, and desertification. While science tells us that climate change is irrefutable and unavoidable, it also tells us it is not too late to limit global warming to the 1.5^oC threshold which is considered the point beyond which climate-related impacts will be catastrophic.

Achieving this goal requires fundamentally transforming how we grow food crops, use land, transport goods, and power our economies. Implementing carbon emissions reduction initiatives throughout our direct and indirect operations can contribute to the mitigation of global climate change and its effects, especially in regions most vulnerable to climate-related disruptions. Our commitment to climate action can also serve as a catalyst and encourage others—especially those connected to our value chain—to adopt strategies that can amplify the overall impact of efforts deployed to combat climate change.

Climate change and its effects can threaten our business continuity and endanger our supply chain—especially our agricultural supply chain which is particularly sensitive to abrupt climate variations. Furthermore, it can present risks with direct impacts on our physical infrastructure, in particular our manufacturing sites. It can also imperil business growth by exacerbating systems-level disruptions affecting various stakeholders, including customers, employees, and communities.

For that, we put in place policies and practices that allow us to identify climate-related risks, anticipate and respond to climate-related regulation in a timely way, support climate policies, and seize climate-related economic opportunities.

Developing and implementing robust mitigation and adaptation strategies can minimize the extent to which climate change impacts our business. One fundamental strategy is to reduce our GHG emissions, which allows us to increase efficiency, deliver energy savings, and boost profitability by promoting fewer inputs used over outputs.