Our sustainability approach

Better Nutrition, Better World

Our sustainability strategy focuses on our people, our planet and our performance. We are tackling topics that are most material to our business and stakeholders, and translates our overall sustainability efforts into tangible results that enable us to improve the environmental, societal and economic impact of our products.

People

We want to empower all our people to perform at their best, realise and expand their potential and build fulfilling careers.

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Planet

When it comes to climate change, we have strict environmental targets related to climate, water, packaging and waste.

Performance

Working together with our stakeholders and focusing on areas with the highest impact, we strive to help protect the environment for generations to come.

Our focus areas

Guided by our materiality assessments, we have developed a robust and ambitious approach to our ESG strategy. This strategy sets out our targets and actions focused on climate and environment; people and communities and our performance and value creation.

Carbon

Reducing our GHG emissions is the most urgent part of our strategy. Our targets are validated by SBTi and aligned to the Paris Agreement.

Water

We aim to make best use of water by optimising our consumption, maximising water re-use and polishing as well as treating waste water as efficiently as possible.

Waste

Tackling waste is a key part of our strategy. We’re targeting TRUE zero waste certification by 2025 and a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.

Packaging

We’ve committed to all consumer packaging materials being 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2030.

Responsible Sourcing

Sustainability is embedded in our procurement processes. We partner with Ecovadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, to develop our sourcing programmes.

Food Safety & Quality

Food safety and quality is fundamental to our business. We operate to stringent safety and quality standards, ensuring that all our sites maintain a globally recognised certification programme.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

At Glanbia, we’re focusing on the SDGs that are most relevant to our business, working on meeting them in the best way we can, and measuring our progress along the way.