Unilever

Unilever is a global consumer goods company that meets everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good, and get more out of life.

Positive signals

Unilever is rated as having 'Low ESG Risk' by Sustainalytics as of April 2025, reflecting strong management of material environmental, social, and governance risks relative to industry peers.

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Despite recent adjustments to its ESG strategy, Unilever continues to pursue its goal of collecting and processing more plastic packaging than it sells by 2025, and aims for 25% recycled plastic content in its packaging.

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Unilever maintains a highest controversy level of 2 (on a 5-point scale) as of May 2025, indicating that it has not been involved in any severe ESG controversies in the past three years, according to Morningstar/Sustainalytics.

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Concerns

Unilever dropped its corporate-level commitment to spend US$2.1 billion annually with diverse businesses by 2025, raising concerns about its ongoing support for supplier diversity and inclusion.

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Unilever has faced ongoing reputational and ethical scrutiny for its continued business operations in Russia following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, despite stakeholder engagement and pressure to exit the market.

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In April 2024, Unilever announced a significant scale-back of its environmental and social targets, including reducing its ambition to cut virgin plastic use from halving by 2025 to a one-third reduction by 2026, which equates to approximately 100,000 tonnes more fresh plastic per year.

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Unilever has removed several nutrition-related and waste reduction objectives from its corporate-wide ESG goals, instead delegating them to individual business units, which may reduce transparency and accountability for progress on these issues.

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Unilever

Positive signals

Unilever is rated as having 'Low ESG Risk' by Sustainalytics as of April 2025, reflecting strong management of material environmental, social, and governance risks relative to industry peers.

Despite recent adjustments to its ESG strategy, Unilever continues to pursue its goal of collecting and processing more plastic packaging than it sells by 2025, and aims for 25% recycled plastic content in its packaging.

Unilever maintains a highest controversy level of 2 (on a 5-point scale) as of May 2025, indicating that it has not been involved in any severe ESG controversies in the past three years, according to Morningstar/Sustainalytics.

Concerns

Unilever dropped its corporate-level commitment to spend US$2.1 billion annually with diverse businesses by 2025, raising concerns about its ongoing support for supplier diversity and inclusion.

Unilever has faced ongoing reputational and ethical scrutiny for its continued business operations in Russia following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, despite stakeholder engagement and pressure to exit the market.

In April 2024, Unilever announced a significant scale-back of its environmental and social targets, including reducing its ambition to cut virgin plastic use from halving by 2025 to a one-third reduction by 2026, which equates to approximately 100,000 tonnes more fresh plastic per year.

Unilever has removed several nutrition-related and waste reduction objectives from its corporate-wide ESG goals, instead delegating them to individual business units, which may reduce transparency and accountability for progress on these issues.

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