With our two business activities, Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, we provide customers with a broad range of solutions that match consumer demands for clean-label, organic, and natural ingredients in addition to being their creative partner of choice. Our value proposition reflects the Company’s purpose of creating happier, healthier lives, with love for nature.

Together with our customers we deliver food experiences, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. From your favourite drink to your daily meal, from prestige perfumes to laundry care, our products help people live happier and healthier lives and we create them in a way that respects natural resources and the environment.

Commitments by aspirational objectives:

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).

Givaudan commitments:

• Before 2030, our operations’ carbon emissions will be cut by 70% and our supply chain emissions by 20% (approved by the Science Based Target initiative).

• Before 2040, our operations will be climate-positive and our supply chain emissions will be cut by 50%.

• Before 2050, we will become a climate-positive business (scopes 1, 2, and 3 will be climate-positive).

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.

Givaudan commitments: 

• Before 2030, we will replace single-use plastics with eco-friendly alternatives across our sites and operations.

Aspirational objective 5: Sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030.

b) Quality jobs, skilled workforce, and safe and inclusive workplaces for all.

Givaudan commitments: 

• 50% of our senior leaders will be from high-growth markets.

• 50% of our senior leaders will be women.

• Offering everyone on our sites access to mental and physical health initiatives, tools, and training.

• Reducing our total recordable injuries cases by 50%.

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.

Givaudan commitments: 

• By 2030, we will source all materials and services in a way that protects people and the environment.

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.