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In 2016 we launched Forever Chocolate, our plan to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025.

Barry Callebaut has succeeded in fiscal year 2018/19 to reduce its carbon footprint by -6.7 %, from 9.10 million tonnes to 8.49 million tonnes, despite increased production. The Group's carbon reduction strategy was validated a Science Based Target.

Barry Callebaut establishes traceability for a third of its global cocoa volume

What does a sustainable coconut look like? On March 7, Barry Callebaut and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Green Invest Asia, brought together buyers, processors and other actors actively involved in the coconut supply chain in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to do exactly that, establish a sustainable coconut and coconut oil value chain.

Read Barry Callebaut's Action Plan under the Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI) Frameworks for Action.

At Barry Callebaut we have the ambitious target of being carbon and forest positive by 2025. To help us achieve this, we have partnered with experts in this field to develop a unique project which uses artificial intelligence, remote sensing and the newest methodology to classify landscapes.

Eradicating child labor is a challenge that the entire cocoa industry has been working toward for more than a decade. However, the reality is that instances still persist, which makes it crucial to test new approaches and combine tactics in order to have an impact.