Contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Governments, businesses, and others must all do their part to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. We are determined to do ours.

We focus our support on the SDGs (and specific targets) where we see opportunities for our business and partnerships to make a meaningful contribution by supporting systemic change at scale (see below). These are closely aligned with the areas where we have the most significant impact. We are driving progress through the four action areas of our sustainability approach.

This targeted approach – focusing on the biggest risks to people or the environment, and the greatest benefits our packaging solutions and partnerships can have – is in line with the guidelines for business reporting on the SDGs from the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Global Compact.

We also contribute to other SDGs through our sustainability approach. For example:

Our commitment to health and safety, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and fair labor practices for employees and people in our supply chain (through responsible sourcing) aligns with SDG 5, 8 and 10.
By promoting the use of FSC™ certification, we are supporting progress towards 11 of the SDGs (and 35 of the accompanying targets).¹
On our way to scale up our SIG foundation led projects Cartons for Good and Recycle for Good, we can strengthen our support for additional global goals such as SDG 1 on poverty and SDG 3 on promoting good health and wellbeing (as well as SDGs 2, 10, 12, and 17).
Our methodology for measuring the impact of our community engagement programs considers their alignment with the full range of SDGs.

Our code of conduct and our business ethics code for suppliers is aligned with SDG 16 related to targets addressing a fair and equitable ways to conduct our business.

The table shows the most relevant SDG targets where our action contributes. The relevant SDG targets are listed with the related SIG sustainability action area.

1 Based on analysis by the Forest Stewardship Council™ in 2018.

Targeted support for the SDGs

SDG

Most relevant SDG targets where our action contributes*

Sustainability action area

2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

Food+

2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous people, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

Food+

2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

Climate+
Nature+
Resource+

6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally

Nature+
Resource+

6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity

Nature+
Resource+

6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes

Nature+

7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

Climate+

7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

Climate+
Resource+

9.4 By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities

Climate+
Nature+
Resource+
Food+

9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending

Climate+
Nature+
Resource+
Food+

12.1 Implement the 10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries

Resource+
Nature+
Climate+

12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

Resource+
Nature+

12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

Food+

12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

Nature+
Resource+

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

Resource+
Nature+

12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

Nature+
Climate+

12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities

Nature+
Climate+

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

Climate+
Nature+

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Climate+

14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

Nature+
Resource+

15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements

Nature+

15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally

Nature+

15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

Nature+

15.7 Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products

Nature+

17.16 Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

Climate+
Food+
Resource+
Nature+

*	Relevant targets identified through an analysis based on the methodology outlined in the UNSC/GRI publication Business Reporting on the SDGs: An Analysis of Goals and Targets.