#The forest beyond contact verification#
During the year, we strengthened our contractual framework with key suppliers, created independent verification protocols, and piloted these in our sourcing of palm oil, cocoa and soy. There are a number of challenges we need to overcome to achieve our deforestation goal by the end of 2023 – in particular on verification, transparency and traceability. Over the past ten years, we've learnt that certification alone won’t guarantee a deforestation-free supply chain. We are committed to working with industry groups, NGOs and governments – to form partnerships, promote advocacy and carry out critical work on the ground. We’re inviting others in our supply chain to partner with us to drive systemic change together. Our scale enables us to have some impact but even so, we can’t achieve the level of change needed on our own. That’s why we are concentrating on the critical first mile – from where our commodities are sourced to where they are first processed. We believe that, to make the greatest impact, we must focus on generating change at our raw materials’ origin. We’ve made significant progress in moving our sourcing footprint to areas of lower risk of deforestation, and we’re working towards self-reporting of deforestation-free commodity volumes from 2022 and reporting of fully verified volumes in 2023. This is because these supply chains contribute to more than 65% of Unilever’s total impact on land – an agricultural footprint of 3 million hectares – and are the crops that are most often linked to deforestation and conversion of natural ecosystems to farmland. We’re focusing first on our supply chains for palm oil, paper and board, tea, soy and cocoa. This means that by the end of 2023, our raw materials will come from places that are verified as deforestation- and conversion-free.
We’ve committed to achieving a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023.
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