Sustainable Solutions
Advancing responsible sourcing and empowering our customers to achieve their sustainability objectives
Our Do More Good™ Plan is a fundamental component of our success as a company.
It drives our strategic efforts to embed environmental, social and governance—plus sustainable solutions (ESG+)—into everything we do.
It is a pledge to our customers, stakeholders and to each other that we’re always striving to exceed expectations and fulfill our purpose to do more good for people and planet.”
Erik Fyrwald
Chief Executive Officer
Supported by a set of ambitious 2030 goals, our Do More Good Plan comprises of four interconnected pillars that capture the areas where we believe we can have the greatest positive impact:
Advancing responsible sourcing and empowering our customers to achieve their sustainability objectives
Leading on urgent climate action by reducing our environmental footprint across our operations
Creating a safe, inspiring and inclusive workplace that supports all employees to grow and achieve their full potential
Conducting our business with the highest integrity through a robust and transparent corporate governance framework
We deliver innovations and solutions that transform industries and empower our customers to achieve their sustainability objectives – beginning with our commitment to responsible sourcing and then leveraging our world-class R&D program to drive environmentally and socially conscious innovation. By 2030, we aim for all new IFF innovations will have a sustainability value proposition.
As of 2023, 91% of new innovations had a sustainability value proposition based on IFF’s Innovation for Sustainability (I4S) Scoring Methodology.
Through life cycle assessment (LCA), we know our products often provide environmental benefits through their performance during the use phase.
IFF’s own environmental footprint has a proportionally small impact compared to the scale of positive benefits and avoided burdens we enable for our customers and the final consumers through our sustainable solutions (aka our “handprint”).
Through the use of IFF solutions, we estimate that we enabled customers and consumers to avoid approximately 24.6 million tonnes of CO2e emissions in 2023.
This amount represents approximately 16 times more CO2e emissions than generated through IFF’s own Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions.
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IFF’s emissions
Our science-based approach to environmental sustainability across our own operations includes investing in energy-efficient systems and expanding our use of renewable energy as we work to achieve net zero Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 2040.
We partner across our value chain to reduce our footprint by advancing our climate action strategies, reducing our water use and striving for zero waste to landfill.
We are committed to creating a safe, inspiring, and inclusive workplace that supports all employees to grow and achieve their full potential.
We’re increasing our focus on talent acquisition, employee engagement and retention programs; integrating diversity, equity and inclusion into how we operate; and always striving for zero workplace injuries or safety incidents.
We are proud to be a top-performing company in the U.S. and globally on gender equality. We are certified as EDGE Move level globally, confirming equal pay for equivalent work (i.e., no statistically relevant gender pay gap in favor of men) in 27 countries assessed in 2023, representing ~90% of our employee population.
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Conducting our business with the highest integrity is essential to fulfilling our Do More Good vision.
Our robust and transparent corporate governance framework is designed to ensure compliance with our policies, as well as with laws and regulations. Our employees are expected to act ethically, speak up and seek advice when in doubt, and our leaders are accountable for upholding our values and advancing toward our goals.
A total of 19 material topics were identified across four categories, which align with the four pillars of IFF’s Do More Good Plan. | The final matrix reflects the importance of these issues in terms of their impact on IFF, versus IFF’s impact on those issues, and we use this representation to guide our strategy and reporting. |