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6.02.2006 ET
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Unilever's Latest Environmental and Social Report Focuses on the Big Issues
(CSRwire) Unilever's latest Environmental and Social Report focuses on the
three big areas the company believes are its most important impacts on
society.
1 The social impact of its foods and home and personal care products,
principally on people's health through nutrition and hygiene, eg:
Over 17,000 food products have been reviewed through a Nutrition
Enhancement Programme, resulting in individual action plans to improve
foods' nutritional profiles, where possible, by reducing fats, sugar and
salt.
Over 18,000 villages have been reached by Lifebuoy soap's health
education campaign. Targeting 200 million people in India, the five-year
campaign aims to improve awareness of basic hygiene by showing how simple
steps such as handwashing with soap can counter the spread of disease.
2 Unilever's work to minimise its environmental footprint and to
secure sustainable supplies of key raw materials, eg:
All eco-efficiency targets were exceeded in 2005. The company was
listed in the Carbon Disclosure Project's Climate Leadership Index and
remained food industry leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
Its Sustainable Agriculture Programme was extended to cover more
crops, and Unilever continues to chair the multi-stakeholder Roundtable on
Sustainable Palm Oil to encourage sustainable production across the
industry.
3 How Unilever's operations create wealth and how this benefits local
communities and other stakeholders, eg:
Innovative research with Oxfam studied the impacts of business on
poverty reduction. Findings showed that around 300,000 people in Indonesia
make their livelihoods in Unilever's value chain, more than 40 times the
number directly employed. New research with business school INSEAD will
develop an economic impact assessment model for trial in our African
business.
A pledge of $1million to the Investment Climate Facility, a new
public-private partnership to promote business-led economic activity in
Africa.
The independently assured report also includes an assessment of how
Unilever contributes to the Millennium Development Goals and
cross-references its reporting to GRI guidelines.
The full report is online at
http://www.unilever.com/ourvalues/environmentandsociety
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