Climate change advocacy: Our initiatives

There’s strength in numbers. Helping to drive positive change and collective action in the environment involves advocating for regenerative agriculture, climate solutions and forest preservation, and we will continue to innovate, scale up solutions and collaborate with like minded partners to multiply our impact.

As with the broader climate challenge, protecting nature and restoring ecosystems is not something that can be done in a silo by any one company or actor in the supply chain. It is a challenge that requires us to work together on solutions across multiple landscapes to provide value and benefit for everyone. We welcome others to partner with us to scale up solutions and increase our impact.

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.A.’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 2024, 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.

Nestlé Climate Advocacy Industry Association Review 2022-2023

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Setting a clear agenda on climate

As set out in Nestlé's Net Zero Roadmap (pdf, 8Mb), we will continue to advocate for ambitious government policies and private-sector leadership with the aim that all sectors move more quickly towards rapid and sustained reductions in carbon emissions.

Our advocacy priorities:

• Encouraging more regenerative forms of agricultural production
• Ending deforestation risk and supporting forest restoration
• Enabling more sustainable logistics
• Supporting the rollout of renewable electricity and energy
• Improving consumer communications and claims
• Advocating for higher ambitions from countries and companies and fair and clear rules for target setting and reporting progress

In addition, Nestlé supports various multi-sector efforts aimed at increasing the pace of decarbonization at a multi-lateral and national level.

WBCSD (World Business Council For Sustainable Devlopment)

Nestlé participates in several working groups, including those dedicated to climate change.
Business and Industry NGOs (BINGO)

Nestlé is an active member of this UNFCCC constituency and participates via our membership of the International Chamber of Commerce.
COP29: BAKU, Azeribaijan

Nestlé continued to advocate for ambition on tackling climate change, particularly around the publication of new Nationally Determined Contributions which set out national targets on emissions reductions up to 2035.