The commitments listed here below reflect the unique approach of Ferrero, a family-owned European business rapidly growing globally. We focus on Quality, Long-term business relationships with our suppliers, End-to-end management of our value chain, and Value-creation. They also reflect the global nature of our business and, at the same time, the very local dimension of on-the-ground impact and partnerships with farmers and civil society.

Commitments by aspirational objectives:

Aspirational objective 1: Healthy, balanced, and sustainable diets for all European consumers, thereby contributing to: 

1) Reversing malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the EU;

2) Reducing the environmental footprint of food consumption by 2030.

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved food consumption patterns in the EU; 

b) A food environment that makes it easier to choose healthy and sustainable diets.

Ferrero commitments:

We keep committing to eliminating partially hydrogenated fats in our products fully aligned with recent WHO requests to limit industrial trans fats at a global level.

Aspirational objective 3: A climate-neutral food chain in Europe by 2050

With the following aspirational target: 

Reducing net emissions from own operations, contributing to a 55% GHG emission reduction target in the EU food chain by 2030 (following a science-based approach).

Ferrero commitments:

• We commit to reducing absolute emissions by 50% from 2018 base year by 2030 at the global level;

• Reduce emissions intensity by 43% per tonne of product produced from a 2018 base year by 2030 at the global level.

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Aspirational objective 4: An optimised circular and resource-efficient food chain in Europe

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resource efficiency within own operations, contributing to sustainable, efficient use and management of energy and natural resources in operations by 2030; 

b) Improved sustainability of food and drink packaging, striving for all packaging towards circularity by 2030.

Ferrero commitments:

Reusable, Recyclable, or Compostable Packaging: We commit to making 100% of our packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.

Aspirational objective 7: Sustainable sourcing in food supply chains

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Transformed commodity supply chains that do not contribute to deforestation, forest degradation, and destruction of natural habitat and which preserve and protect high-value ecosystems and biodiversity;

b) Improved social performance in (global) food supply chains.

Ferrero commitments:

Eggs supply chain: 

We commit to globally sourcing 100% cage-free eggs by 2025.

Hazelnut supply chain: 

• We commit to increasing the traceability of the hazelnut supply chain;

• We require our suppliers to meet requirements and promote practices in our Hazelnuts Charter.

Cocoa supply chain: 

We commit to sourcing 100% cocoa through independently managed standards 100% of our cocoa chain will be covered by the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems 100% of mapping and tracing of our cocoa supply chain to farm-gate level to address deforestation.

Palm Oil supply chain: 

• Suppliers meet the targets of our Palm Oil charter;

• We commit to 100% traceable segregated, RSPO-certified palm oil.

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.