Contributing to 30% of GHG emissions, the food system, which we are part of, needs to change to prevent climate change, and mitigate the ongoing threats to nature and biodiversity.

Our Products
Encouraging more people to adopt healthy, sustainable diets is a major form of climate action. The EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet is a good reference point for healthy and sustainable diets. Many of our ingredients are plant-based and typically require fewer natural resources and generate lower GHG emissions than animal-sourced foods.

We offer consumers a compelling choice with lower-carbon emissions than dairy equivalents. Using science-based approaches, we measure and demonstrate our impact, ensuring actions align with the latest advancements in sustainability.

Since 2018, we have been calculating the environmental impact of our products through peer reviewed, ISO-compliant, life cycle assessments (LCAs) and putting carbon information on packs. This year, we further developed our approach, making comparative environmental and climate assessments and calculating the avoided pressures of our portfolio.

Comparative Portfolio Assessment
Our 2024 study, conducted by a specialist sustainability advisor, analysed about 50% of our worldwide product portfolio. 

Avoided Pressures

The figures reported as avoided pressures allows us to communicate the enabling role of our products in decarbonisation of the food sector. It’s a measure of the commercial solutions available and their respective environmental footprints. We modelled these figures following WBCSD guidance on avoided emissions.
In 2024, choosing Flora Food Group’s butters and spreads, creams and cheeses, compared to a representative market mix of dairy and non-dairy alternatives, avoided an estimated 2.7 million tonnes CO₂ -equivalent emissions, 4,028 km2 land occupation, and 67.5 million m3 of water withdrawal globally.
By helping more people switch to our products, away from conventional dairy, we can contribute even more to global emissions reductions. We aim to inspire this shift to lower carbon products, while also achieving our net zero emissions targets for 2030 and 2050.

At Flora Food Group we know that people care deeply about the provenance of their food, and want to know that ingredients are grown in a way that respects the planet and those involved in the process. We have established a robust programme of sustainable and responsible sourcing to enable consumers to make ethical, considered choices. As a manufacturer, our suppliers have to meet our policies and standards, which set out how we work together with our partners to ensure these ingredients meet the expectations and demands of our consumers. This helps strengthen our food supply chains to ensure they are resilient and robust , so customers can be confident that we will continue to deliver.

Our key topics
Deforestation, conversion and environmental impact – Limiting our impact on natural ecosystems and their biodiversity is important in our operations and our supply chain. We have committed to eliminating deforestation across primary deforestation-linked commodities — palm, soy and pulp and paper — with a target date of no later than December 31, 2025.
Ethical standards – We have a strong supplier code of conduct that we are requesting all our suppliers to comply with. We are also using Sedex to assess the environment in which our suppliers are operating to adjust our engagement with them on those topics.
Human rights and labour standards – Some of our supply chains can be long and complex, and that it can be a challenge to have full visibility and awareness of everyone who works along them, and the conditions within which they work. We are committed to ensuring no exploitation in our supply chains and to respecting human rights in our operations and supply chains. See our Human Rights Policy.

How we address these issues
1. Responsible sourcing policies - From our ingredient-specific policies to our Responsible Supplier Code of Conduct, we set out what we expect from our suppliers and have the processes and systems in place to ensure that they meet our standards.
2. Traceability -It is really important that we know where our ingredients come from – be it a farm, mill or landscape – and we are working to continuously improve traceability across our supply chains. This helps us to take appropriate and targeted decisions.
3. Monitoring - We have robust monitoring processes in place to ensure we can identify and address issues that might be raised. From satellite monitoring to our issues identification and grievance management process we seek to address issues raised in timely and transparent way, whether from suppliers, partners or through our Speak Up process.
4. Supplier engagement - We actively engage and collaborate with our suppliers, both on policy compliance, to ensure our standards are met, and through our due diligence processes. We use Sedex, for example, which is an ethical sourcing assessment to help us understand, prioritise and address sourcing risk. Through key projects and partnerships, we work with valued suppliers to help transform our supply chains.
5. Transparency - Public reporting on progress is important, and Flora Food Group seeks to share how we are progressing and meeting our targets in our Annual Report and other disclosures, for example CDP. We also share the list of the origins of our key ingredients, and our grievance tracker helps enable change in the food system.

We are working to make sure our impact on the environment through our packaging will significantly diminish. The packaging we use for our products is how we protect them against damage, minimize food waste and maintain our high standards of food safety and quality. Until now, our industry has relied on plastic only as the optimal material to achieve these ends, but we are continually looking for better packaging solutions.
Whilst our plastic packaging is designed to be recycled, we know that not all of it is. That is why we are researching for optimizing the recyclability and increasing reusable and compostable solutions.
Better Packaging means we will continue to partner with the industry and governments, to reduce our plastic packaging, reduce the impact of our packaging, source it responsibly and ensure partnering to enable effective recycling and moving towards a circular economy.