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

CDP sixth consecutive ’A’ for climate in 2024 with A- for water and B for forests. Leaderboard recognition for supplier engagement in 2024.

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