Environment

Overview

Our goal is to safeguard the environment while continuing to grow as a world-class dairy processor. For us, this means:

• Meeting our compliance obligations
• Preventing pollution
• Reducing our impact on, and adapting to, climate change
• Using natural resources sustainably
• Protecting biodiversity and ecosystems
• Leveraging our capabilities as a business to create positive environmental actions.

To succeed on these fronts, all environmental efforts are underpinned by our Environmental Policy and overseen by our Environmental Committee and managed at the local level with the support from our divisional environmental teams.  

In FY20, we pledged to accelerate our global climate, water, and waste performance, announced clear environmental targets, and made a formal commitment to make significant progress by 2025. We have allocated additional resources - including capital investments of more than $75 million to date - to support the execution of this global action plan.

After five years of efforts, investments, and learnings, we have made progress in reducing our environmental impacts. While we acknowledge there are areas where we fell short and recognize the work ahead, we are proud of our achievements. 

With the completion of our last environmental targets, we reassessed our focus in FY25 and established our new environmental commitment - our 2030 Environmental Pledges. This evolution is based on insights from the past five years, an evaluation of our progress, and the identification of challenges and opportunities. Our revised Pledges include:

• Renewed climate ambition through science-based targets.
• Continued effort on water use, particularly in high risks areas.
• Streamlined waste and packaging targets.