Sustainability strategies

Based on a review of our long-term sustainability challenges, key impacts along our entire value chain and input from stakeholders, Danisco has defined strategies and targets for addressing these challenges.

In the development of our 2009/10 strategies, we took into account input from a wide range of sources, including our materiality assessment, stakeholder feedback and consultations with Danisco’s Board of Directors, Executive Committee, divisional leaders, heads of operations and line management.

New Targets

We have developed new long-term targets with an eye to where we want to be in 2020.

In developing strategies for sustainable sourcing and innovation, our next step will be to conduct focus groups to help define short-term milestones, resource needs, and short- and long-term targets.

You will find all of our new targets in our online report:

Measuring performance

We will use our existing sustainability performance management database to help monitor progress in executing each new strategy.

Monitoring our progress
Progress will be reported to our Executive Committee on a quarterly basis. Our performance will be also published in our quarterly, annual and sustainability reports.

Danisco employees worldwide have direct access to the most up-to-date sustainability performance data available via our company intranet; this is one important means of engaging our global workforce in the effort to achieve our defined targets.

Strategies, targets and progress

Each year, we evaluate the progress towards our targets and assess the need for new targets.

This year, we will achieve all of our environmental targets ahead of schedule and have made plans to establish additional – and more ambitious targets – for 2020.

Read more about our 2008 targets and progress in our report