The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan aims to double the size of Unilever's business while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing positive social impacts over 10 years. It identifies problems like population growth, resource scarcity, and health issues. Initiatives include making products more sustainable by reducing waste and greenhouse gases, ensuring sustainable sourcing of materials, and improving health, hygiene and nutrition through brands. Unilever leverages its global scale, innovation capabilities and focus on high-impact projects to work towards these sustainability goals.

2. Unilever Sustainable Living Plan
2012
• More than 400 brands
• Everyday, 2 Billion people use their product
• Turnover increased by 10.5%
• Break through the €50 billion barrier
• Becoming an €80 Billion company
• The winner of International Green Awards 2011
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3. 10 Years Plan
• Double in size of business whilst
reduce environmental foot print and
increase positive social impact
• 100% Raw material
• Inspire people to take small everyday
action

4. Identifying the Problems
People
• 9 Billion on planet by 2050
• 200,000 persons per day
• 200 M unemployed
• 600 M jobs need to be created over next decade
• 2 M children die from diarrhea and pneumonia each year
Planet
• 2 temperature rise acceleration
• 2/3 of world population are under water stressed conditions by 2050
• 40% agricultural land degraded
• 1 in 10 of the adult population is obese while almost 1 billion people go
hungery

5. People – Health & Well-Being
1. Health & Hygiene
– Pureit in-home water purifier, Lifebuoy brand aims to
change the hygiene behaviour
– Dove, self-esteem through educational programmes.
2. Nutrition
– Reduce salt, sugar, calories and saturated fat composition
of products
– Removed all trans fat from all products in September
2012

6. Planet – Reduce Environmental Impact
1. Green House Gases
– Concentrating our liquids and compacting our powders
– Cold water wash laundry products
• Unilever open innovation team 2012 research
– Reducing truck mileage, alternative transport such as rail
or ship for 40% improvement in CO₂ efficiency
– Freezer cabinets that use climate-friendly (hydrocarbon)
refrigerants

7. Planet – Reduce Environmental Impact
Halve the footprint of our product
2. Water
– Easier rinsing products
– Seven new factories will aim to abstract less than half the water of
those in our 2008 baseline
3. Waste
– Reduce packing
• Invested in ‘Material Capability Group’ – Specialist suppliers
• Skincare ‘Citra’ bottles now using new technology-bi-model resin
Reduced 70 tonnes of material
• Concentrating liquid products
– Recycle
• Twister, Paddle Pop and Fruttare, reduce wrap
• Ice-cream and margarine tubs – Research for easily recyclable material

8. Planet - Enhancing Livelihoods
Halve the footprint of our product
1. Sustainable sourcing
– source sustainably all soy beans by 2014 and all soy oils by 2020
– tea in all Lipton tea bags sourced from Rainforest Alliance
Certified™ estates
– 100% of our fruit from sustainable sources
– source cocoa sustainably for our Magnum ice cream
– flavours of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream will be Fairtrade certified
– all paper-based office sustainable forests or recycled sources
2. Better Livelihood
– Support small scale distributors and smallholder farmers

9. Profit – Focus on fewer but bigger projects
1. Our Brands
– Strengthen connections between
consumer and the product – Dove
Beauty Campaign
2. Operation
– Develop innovative product that
address different consumer needs
at different price points
– Add value at every step in the value
chain
– Quality of customer service –
rolling out our innovation faster
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10. Other Projects
• Better Future Starts at Home
• Unilever Ventures Ltd
• Open Innovation Team
• Material Capability Group
• Employee projects

11. Our Strength
• Focus on fewer but bigger projects
• All our sustainable plans add value
• Control of operational system
• Operate in 190 countries
• New factories, implementations and innovation
• Internal R and D capability