Hindustan Unilever Limited faces several climate change challenges, including operational impacts from disasters, resource scarcity and cost increases, and regulatory and reputational risks. To address these, HUL aims to achieve zero emissions through various initiatives like sourcing renewable energy, reducing packaging waste, developing more efficient logistics, and helping consumers make lower carbon choices. HUL's action plans focus on optimizing energy use, transitioning to renewables, eliminating refrigerants, reducing food waste, increasing recycled content in plastic packaging, and reducing the distance traveled in distribution.

1. A presentation on
Hindustan Unilever Limited -
Climate Change Challenges
Presented By :-
Satwik Bhat
Smitha C N
Shreyas Halemani

2. About HUL
• Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India’s largest
fast moving consumer goods company company,
With its headquarters located in Mumbai.
• HUL is a subsidiary of Unilever, one of world’s
leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care
and Refreshment products with sales in over 190
countries.
• Hindustan Unilever's portfolio has 50+ product
brands in 14 categories.
• It was founded in the year 1933 and has a heritage of
nearly 90 years in India.
• Sanjiv Mehta is the current CEO of the company.

3. Climate change challenges faced by the
organization
• Operational impact: Nearly 3 in 10 organizations are noticing the operational impacts of
climate-related disasters, such as facilities damage and workforce disruption.
• Scarcity/cost of resources: Resources like food, water and energy are at risk due to both
environmental and human causes, with the energy and consumer industries reporting the
greatest impacts.
• Regulatory/political uncertainty: Rounding out the top three concerns, over a quarter of
executives say they are wary about shifting regulatory and political environments. The banking
and life sciences/healthcare industries overwhelmingly cited this as the issue impacting their
sustainability efforts the most.
• Increased insurance costs or lack of insurance availability: climate-related events have, in
some cases, led to dramatic increases in insurance costs.
• Reputational damage: Environmental sustainability efforts are becoming core tenets of
organizations’ culture and brand identity.

4. Current Solutions: Unilever Fights Back
with a Big Goal
• Deforestation-free supply chain: Attain zero net deforestation associated with
four commodities (palm oil, soy, paper and board, and beef) by 2020
• Partnering with suppliers to deliver net zero emissions: working with their
suppliers to reduce the carbon footprint of their products, through radical product
innovation and deep partnerships.
• Change Consumer Behavior: Encourage consumers to use of less water and
energy and increase their tendencies to recycle.
• Increase Eco-efficiency of Manufacturing and Distribution: Target 100% of
electricity purchased from the grid to be from renewable sources.
• Advocating for Public Policy: Establish partnerships to affect policy change.

5. Action Plans taken by HUL
Hindustan Unilever aims to take the following actions to
support their goal to achieve zero emissions in their operations:
• Continuously optimize their energy demand through energy
efficiency programmes.
• Transition energy sources to renewables. Their worldwide
grid electricity is now 100% sourced from renewable sources.
Next, they aim to transition heating sources (typically fossil
fuel burning boilers) for manufacturing sites, offices and labs
to renewable energy sources.
• Eliminate any remaining residual high global warming
potential (GWP) HFC refrigerants from their cooling systems,
retrofitting or replacing them with low GWP refrigerants such
as hydrocarbons, ammonia and CO2.
• Halve food waste in their operations by 2025.

6. • Packaging materials (for example, plastics, paper & board, metals, glass)
• Reduce our use of virgin plastic packaging by 50% .
• Help collect and process more plastic packaging than we sell.
• Make 100% of our plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable.
• Use at least 25% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content in our plastic packaging.
• Invest and partner to improve waste management infrastructure (collection, sorting and
processing).
• Participate in extended producer responsibility schemes where Unilever directly pays for
the collection of its packaging.
Packaging Waste Management:-

7. Logistics and distribution
HUL’s logistics and distribution plan has six areas of focus:
• Decreasing distance travelled through network redesign,
including collaboration with it’s customers and suppliers.
• Additional use of intermodal solutions – for example, the use of
railways to reduce demand for long-distance trucking.
• Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) for
long haul heavy-duty transport and BEVs for short-haul
transport.
• Alternate fuels – developing partnerships to explore lower
carbon transition fuels, such as bio-liquified natural gas and
renewable natural gas (biogas).
• Cold chain – using cleaner and newer technologies for it’s
refrigerated and frozen deliveries.
• Last-mile delivery solutions – to measure and reduce the
emissions from customers’ own distribution centres to store
shelves and to consumers’ homes in the case of direct to
consumer eCommerce

8. Retail emissions: 10% of Footprint
• Retail emissions – specifically ice cream freezers
• Aerosol propellants: 3% of our footprint
• Emissions from disposal of waste products and packaging, including biodegradation of
product formulations
• Concentration and compaction
• Recycled and renewable carbon in formulations
• Plant-based foods
• Beauty & Personal Care – Positive Beauty for people and planet
• Helping consumers make lower carbon choices

9. Conclusion
• Businesses are well positioned to lead on the innovations and technology that
will help curtail private sector impact on the environment, and government
should lead on the massive societal transformations required to combat and
curtail climate change.
• Business can only succeed if society thrives. While everyone has a role to play,
the future of our people, planet and profession depends on the business
community taking measurable, decisive action on climate change.

10. THANK YOU