Danone

Review summary

Danone submitted its Biodiversity Strategy to the It’s Now for Nature campaign and met all the review criteria to take part in the campaign.

Danone has conducted a double materiality assessment across its value chain to evaluate DIROs listed in their Universal Registration Document. Danone used SBTN and TNFD guidance for its assessment, utilizing tools like the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter. Its wider materiality assessment covers downstream operations.
The focus areas addressed are: water stewardship, land use, soil health, climate change, and ecosystem intactness.
For example:
- “The outcomes showed that Danone’s most material activities are concentrated upstream since we source ingredients from agricultural landscapes.”

Danone has set SMART targets for its material issues with deadlines of 2025 and 2030.
For example:
- Water stewardship: 50% of key water-material ingredient volumes sourced from water-risk areas will be produced under water-improved management by 2030.
- Land use: “Verified Deforestation and Conversion free sourcing in direct supply chains for in-scope commodities by 2025.”

For each of Danone’s most material activities, they have identified how they will execute their ambition.
For example:
- Danone aims to implement watershed preservation or restoration plans for 100% of their production sites in high water-stress areas, representing 60 watersheds.
Danone’s land use commitments and actions are outlined in its Forest Policy.
In 2023, 95% of Danone production sites had an active 4R action plan to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle or Reclaim water internally or externally to reduce our overall water footprint.

Nature and Biodiversity at Danone is overseen by Danone’s C-suite (Chief Sustainability and Business Development Officer and Chief Operation Officer).
Progress on the nature pillar is reviewed by Board-level governance bodies, such as the CSR Committee and Engagement and Impact Committee.