Nestle Lives up to its sustainability goals created in 2010

At the moment 41% of our electricity comes from renewable sources, and we have managed to create a 34% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of product since 2010 in our manufacturing operations. The battle however is not over. Climate change is one of the biggest threats to our society and to our business.

In 2019, Nestlé announced its ambition to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Some of our specific steps include speeding up the transformation of our products to lower their environmental footprint, scaling up initiatives in agriculture to absorb more carbon and using 100% renewable electricity in Nestlé sites.

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We're sourcing clean energy for a better future.

In 2019, for the third year in a row, Google purchased enough renewable energy to match 100 percent of our annual global electricity consumption. We’re proud of achieving this milestone on the road to achieving an even more ambitious goal: sourcing enough carbon-free energy to match our consumption in every place where we operate, at every hour of the year. Our large-scale procurement of wind and solar power is a cornerstone of our sustainability efforts and has made Google the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy. To date, we’ve signed more than 50 long-term contract commitments to buy energy from wind and solar farms around the world, totaling more than 5 GW of new generation capacity since 2010.

How Ricola took action to reduce carbon emissions

At Ricola, we have been making great strides since 2015. In 2016 the CO2 emission level set by the Swiss federal government was outperformed by 31 tons of CO2 although production volumes have increased. Since 2016 100% of our electricity usage is hydro powered. Since 2016 our new water tanks have been fully outfitted for heat recovery. Since 2016 use of an own electric car for business travel. And we have managed to reduce energy consumption by 7%. We have continued to make changes and look forward to the next five years of improvements in our process and carbon footprint.

A win for polar bears in Coke’s most successful campaign ever

Polar bears are disappearing from Coca-Cola cans, but real bears are more likely to stick around, thanks to the wildly successful Arctic Home campaign . We’ve all seen the pictures of polar bears stranded on sea ice. They’re all too often used as the iconic poster animals of a rapidly changing climate. Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at least twice as fast as the global average and sea ice cover is diminishing by nearly four per cent per decade. The loss of sea ice affects polar bears' ability to find food. In just 5 months, Arctic Home raised nearly 2 million dollars for polar bear conservation. In addition to the financial support, millions of people in Canada and the US heard our message about the threats to polar bears and their habitat. The campaign will run again next year in North America and may expand to other markets.

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