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Barry Callebaut is positioned in the 1st percentile in both the Food Product and Packaged Food companies by Morningstar Sustainalytics.

Yesterday, we launched our sharpened plan to make sustainable chocolate the norm, Forever Chocolate. Yesterday’s publication concludes a one-year review and evaluation during which we have not only sharpened our plan, but also added fresh ambition to extend our impact beyond 2025.

Discover the key to a transformative approach to cocoa farming in West Africa. Read Barry Callebaut's White Paper, highlighting findings from six years of collaboration with IDH, Rainforest Alliance and Agri-Logic. Learn how yield, farm size, and price can drive poverty reduction.

Barry Callebaut is committed to sustainability and reducing its environmental footprint. In the Americas, we have implemented various sustainable projects to become a leader in sustainability in the chocolate and cocoa industry.

Barry Callebaut is proud to be one of the founding companies of the Sustainable Coconut Partnership launched in April 2023 that drives industry-wide transformation.

Barry Callebaut signed an agroforestry agreement with Nestlé. The joint project is aligned with the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, Net Zero Roadmap and the joint climate-smart cocoa ambition to remove up to 1.3 million tons of CO2e.

Digital payments are increasingly accepted in cocoa-growing origins. At Barry Callebaut, we scale our digital premium payment solutions across West Africa, Indonesia and South America.

Our Forever Chocolate Progress Report 2021/22 highlights our achievements toward making sustainable chocolate the norm. One out of two of our products sold contains sustainable chocolate.

Barry Callebaut is positioned as #1 out of 579 companies in the ‘Food Product’ category by Sustainalytics. This is the fourth consecutive year that Barry Callebaut has been recognized as an industry leader in the management of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks in our supply chain.

Pre-harvest activities, in particular, are critical to boost productivity. This year, Barry Callebaut is supporting 10,000 farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana with pre-harvest interventions by providing external labor and subsidized soil inputs. In the coming crop season, we aim to scale our new approach deploying large-scale labor teams to reach more farmers in our supply chain.

A joint cocoa diversification project with Prova improves vanilla farmer livelihoods in Madagascar – and supplies Barry Callebaut customers with sustainable vanilla.

Combined with our long-established expertise in innovation and sustainability, Ecuador is the perfect match for Barry Callebaut to build a dedicated hub to power cocoa farming research to support cocoa farming resilience and productivity.

Barry Callebaut’s long-term reforestation project in the Agbo 2 Forest seeks to restore the forest, protect one of the world’s most biodiversity-rich and fragile ecosystems and support cocoa farmer livelihoods.

CDP, the gold standard of environmental reporting, has again recognized Barry Callebaut for our work with suppliers to achieve our science-based targets, tackle climate change and become carbon and forest positive.

Out of nearly 12,000 companies which were scored by CDP in 2021, Barry Callebaut is one of 24 high-performing companies, securing a place on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’. After ranking for four years in a row as a CDP global climate leader with a score of A- for our climate reduction efforts, we are now for the first time, making the ‘A List’ as a leader in corporate action and transparency on deforestation.

Barry Callebaut has reduced by more than -17% its carbon intensity per tonne of product since the start of Forever Chocolate in 2016.