Performance and reporting

Transparent, public reporting on our activities, commitments and performance is embedded in how we do business at Nestlé.

We include a summary of our approach and performance on important topics in our annual review and publish more details in our Non-Financial Statement.

Our 2025 performance summary

Climate

We aimed to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20% by 2025 and we aim to further reduce such emissions by 50% by 2030, on the road to net zero by 2050 at the latest.

24.5 %

Nature

By 2025, we aimed to achieve and maintain 100% assessed deforestation-free primary supply chains (for meat, palm oil, pulp and paper, soy, sugar, cocoa and coffee).

96.7 %

Regenerative agriculture

By 2025, we aimed for 20% of volumes of key ingredients to be sourced from farmers adopting regenerative agriculture practices.

27.6 %

Packaging

By 2025, we aimed to reduce virgin plastics by one third versus our 2018 baseline.

28 %

Diversity, equity and inclusion

48.2 %

Health and nutrition

135.4 billion

¹ Net reductions (%) of GHG emissions versus 2018 baseline includes removals from inside Nestlé’s value chains and sourcing landscapes (pending the publication of the SBTi guidance on neutralization).

² The scope of this KPI includes the following ingredient categories: dairy (i.e. fresh milk and milk derivatives); coffee; cereals and grains; soy; vegetables; cocoa; palm oil; sugar; fish and seafood; meat, poultry and eggs.

Learn more in our Non-Financial Statement 2025 (pdf, 18Mb)

Our Non-Financial Statement 2025 was independently assured by Ernst & Young Ltd (EY). They have provided limited assurance on select environmental, social and governance, KPIs , which can be found in Independent assurance (pdf, 18Mb)
Our Reporting Scope and Methodology for ESG KPIs (pdf, 18Mb) document provides details and definitions.
Nestlé’s Non-Financial Statement 2025 has been produced with reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standard for the Processed Foods sector which can be found here: GRI and SASB Index (pdf, 18Mb)

Key terms explained

Regenerative agriculture
In line with the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform, Nestlé defines regenerative agriculture as an approach to farming which aims to conserve and restore natural resources, primarily soil, as well as water and biodiversity, while capturing carbon in soils and plant biomass, and to support farmers’ livelihoods. Examples of regenerative agriculture practices include reduced tillage and agroforestry. More information is available in our Nestlé Agriculture Framework (pdf, 19Mb). Read more about regenerative agriculture.

Deforestation-free
Deforestation-free means that commodities in scope were assessed as produced on land that has not been subject to deforestation or conversion after a specific cut-off date that varies by commodity, but no later than December 31, 2020. Read more about deforestation-free.

Non-Financial Statement

Get in-depth information about our sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in our Non-Financial Statement 2025.
Download (pdf, 18Mb)

We hope you found these documents interesting and informative. If you have any feedback that you'd like to share with us, you can contact our Public Affairs team via email.