ESG fully integrated in our business

As a purpose-led Company, we can go even further to make our world a happier and healthier place.

Our purpose, a guiding star in our 2025 strategy, leads the way to increasing our positive impact on society and the planet in order to ensure our sustainable long-term performance. It is our intention to deliver growth through creating inspiring products for happier, healthier lives while achieving our ambitious financial targets and longer-term purpose ambitions.

Our 2025 strategy

We are recognised by external organisations as a Company acting as a force for good.

Our strong record of ESG ratings

ESG rating and indices

CDP

Fifth double ‘A’ in 2023 for climate and water and A– in forests. CDP Leaderboard recognition for supplier engagement in 2023.

EcoVadis

Awarded the EcoVadis gold medal with a score of 73/100.

Sustainalytics

A score of 18.6 and a chemicals industry ranking of 22 out of 592.

MSCI ESG AAA Rating

MSCI ESG AAA Rating since 2017.

We seek the highest standards as a responsible and sustainable business and hold ourselves accountable through bold measurable financial and non-financial goals. You can find comprehensive reporting against our purpose and our financial targets in our Integrated Annual Report.

In addition, we provide more detail on our sustainability-related policies, programmes and performance in several other reports: 

• Sustainability Report
• ESG Performance Data
• ESG Overview 
• ESG Presentation 
• CDP Report on Climate Change 
• CDP Report on Water Security 
• SASB Standards
• TCFD Recommendations