At Danone, we believe that each time we eat and drink, we can vote for the world we want to live in. Over the years, Danone has continued to innovate to meet consumers’ needs. What has never changed is our commitment to our mission: bringing health through food to as many people as possible. Across our business and brands, health continues to be our North Star, and the cornerstone of our impact. It requires a systemic and holistic approach embedding all environmental and social aspects throughout the entire value chain from farmers and their communities to consumers and families.

The Danone Impact Journey, launched in 2023, is a blueprint for defining our sustainability priorities and our transformation ambition built on 3 pillars: Health; Nature; and People & Communities. As a result of the Danone Impact Journey, we are renewing and realigning our commitments and ambition for the EU Code of Conduct – outlined below. In addition, while the EU is rapidly progressing on a number of topics, we believe there is still tremendous efforts to be made for greater impact.

Overview of commitments (more detailed targets in the Pledge attached):

We aim to support consumers to shift their consumption habits towards more sustainable and healthier diets, ensuring they can access a broad and attractive offer of products. Our commitments therefore include specific targets on:

- Improving the nutritional profile of our brands’ portfolio

- Increasing of the number of products with a meaningful amount of positive nutrients

- Helping consumers make informed choice for a healthy, balanced diet

- Promoting a shift to flexitarian diets

- Contributing to the health and nutrition of mothers and infants from the youngest age

Our ambition at Danone is to make food a solution that preserves and regenerates nature, with specific commitments on:

- CO2 reduction by 2030 in line with 1.5°C SBTi target

- 30% reduction in methane emissions from fresh milk in 2030

- 30% improvement in energy efficiency by 2025

- Purchasing 30% of its volume of agricultural ingredients directly from farms that have begun to transition to regenerative agriculture

- Zero deforestation & conversion on key commodities by 2025

- Improving watershed preservation/restoration 

- Improving the sustainability and circularity of our packaging and to reduce its environmental footprint

- Reducing food waste within our operations and supply chain by half by 2030

Danone has a strong legacy of social impact from the launch of Danone’s Dual Project to the integration of social objectives into our company bylaws as an Entreprise à Mission. Our commitments in this area include:

- Training Danoners on Danone’s Human Rights Policy

- Deploying the Danone Responsible Sourcing Policy to all suppliers

- Covering all Danone employees by B Corp certification by 2025

- Achieving gender balance in management globally, driving equity and closing gender pay gap

- Maintaining inclusion index above peers