Teaming up for climate advocacy

There’s strength in numbers. Published in 2020, our Net Zero Roadmap identifies several climate change related advocacy priorities. We have acted on these since, including supporting the development of ambitious and investible Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) from countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

We support progressive climate action across all economic sectors, aligning our strategy with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

We also support government leadership to strengthen the policies, incentives and legislation that will drive the necessary business action towards halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, in line with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

We recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are interconnected challenges that require coordinated global solutions. Current priorities include advocating for greater private-sector ambition on regenerative agriculture and the incorporation of regenerative agriculture principles into public policy.

Our advocacy related actions

We continue to actively engage with stakeholders, including governments and industries, to encourage fair and ambitious policies that support a just transition to a lower-carbon economy. This engagement is critical to aligning our business strategy with global efforts to combat climate change.

We provide specific guidance to our local market teams on aligning advocacy and external engagement activities with the goals of the Paris Agreement, applying our Policy on Transparent Interactions with Public Authorities (pdf, 2Mb).

Disclosure of our advocacy practices is important to enhance transparency and trust. That is why we welcome the development of the Global Standard on Climate Responsible Lobbying and use it to guide our annual Nestlé Climate Advocacy Industry Associations Review disclosure. This includes:

• Our advocacy priorities on climate
• Nestlé’s main industry association memberships and an assessment of how far their positions are aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement
• Our process for addressing misalignments
• Nestlé’s climate legislative advocacy guidance that helps equip our teams
• Our governance structure for climate advocacy activities
• Links to other public disclosures of Nestlé’s climate advocacy activities
• Examples of Nestlé’s global and regional climate advocacy activities

In 2025, Nestlé was again recognized as a leading company meeting all relevant criteria as part of the Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Leader assessment carried out by InfluenceMap and is ranked #5 out of 177 companies in the Corporate Policy Engagement Disclosure Scorecards ranking.

Setting a clear agenda on climate

As set out in Nestlé's Net Zero Roadmap (pdf, 16Mb), we will continue to advocate for government policies and private-sector leadership with the aim that all sectors move more quickly towards rapid and sustained reductions in carbon emissions.

In addition, Nestlé engages in various multi-sector efforts such as those driven by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to support collaboration on climate action at a multi-lateral and national level.

On a global level, to advance our advocacy on climate and nature related matters, we participated in the following events in 2025:

• London Climate Action Week
• New York Climate Action Week
• UNFCCC COP30 in Belem, Brazil