Our Vision
Driving Systemic Change Through Our Impact and Influence
The name Seventh Generation was inspired by an ancient Iroquois philosophy: “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” We try to honor this intention with everything we do, from our products and business operations to our advocacy and philanthropy work. Our mission is to meet the needs you have today—without compromising the future health of the planet.
For over 30 years, we’ve been on a journey to make the best, most effective products possible while reducing our impact on natural resources and the climate. For example, the challenging work to achieve our Science-Based Climate Target [Link to: Our shrinking carbon footprint] has yielded results and driven systemic-level impacts [Link to: Promoting Circularity and Reducing Plastics] to help shrink our carbon footprint. At the same time, the reality of making progress toward our targets helped us shape our 2030 goals. Our work on Climate Fingerprints is changing how we approach things like creative services contracting and our banking relationships.
While we’re proud of these results, we know we need bold, collective action to avert the worst of the climate crisis and ensure a healthy future for our families and communities. We do this by raising our voice whenever possible to educate and mobilize the masses and spark action in the industry. We share what we’ve learned from our decarbonizing corporate cash journey and inspire others to explore similar actions for their businesses. We empower individuals to take climate action, and our advocacy strategy focuses on holding businesses and the government accountable for their climate action—and inaction.
We continuously work to strengthen our understanding of the inspiration behind our name and honor the experiences of Indigenous people. Through an ongoing education and engagement process, we’re learning, unlearning, and re-learning together to fully live our mission. In our philanthropy work, we’ve completely realigned our approach to support the leadership, wisdom, and power of Indigenous communities.
This work is as important as any other business metric or key performance indicator. Growth, profitability, and sustainability are the pillars of Seventh Generation’s success, and our executive leadership is responsible for delivering on all three. But this is not a perfect world, and we’re not immune to economic and political pressures. We have an obligation to defend our decisions in the face of anti-ESG (environmental, social, and governance) sentiment and changing market dynamics, especially in a volatile political climate.
And let’s be clear: we will continue to do so, because the future health of people and the planet, is fundamental to the health of our business. Growth, profitability and sustainability are not competing priorities. And for our business to survive for future generations, we need to attend to all.
Ahead, learn more about the tangible efforts we’re making to achieve our goals.
Our 2030 Goals
Our sustainability goals shape how we formulate, source, produce, and sell our products. When creating our 2023 goals, we considered many factors, including where we have direct control, where we have influence, and where there is a need for industry innovation. These goals will push us to drive meaningful, industry-leading impact in everything we do.
2030 Goal - Reduce Carbon Emissions
Reduce Carbon Emissions
In 2018, when Seventh Generation set our Science-based Climate Target (SBTi), we committed to reduce our absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 100%; reduce our absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions from the use of sold products by 90%; and reduce total scope 3 emissions from remaining categories by 80% (2012 base-year), all by 2030. We knew it was a bold ambition, but one that was informed by a belief that market and government investment in greening the grid (e.g., renewable energy) would help get us there. In 2023, five years later, we’re proud that we’ve made progress in key areas [Link to Our Shrinking Footprint], but we’re not yet on track to achieve the Scope 3 targets we set out for ourselves. Without a transformational change to the U.S. power system, we believe that achieving our goal to reduce 90% of emissions associated with use of our products is nearly impossible. This assessment evolved from a process we undertook to conduct a mandatory 5-year review of our SBTi and prompted us to consider what realistic, yet leading climate progress for Seventh Generation should look like. We’ve set an interim 2030 climate target to challenge us to dig deep into our upstream supply chain to reduce emissions from key hotspots that, to date, we have not been able to solve for, while still growing our business.
Reduce Carbon Emissions, by 2030 we will:
- 25% reduction from Scope 3 emissions, excluding use
How will we make progress? We’ll continue focusing on the hotspots that are driving our carbon footprint, including palm-based ingredients, citrates, and plastic packaging [Link to Impact]. This will involve making changes in our own formulation and sourcing models and investing in work that may not yield immediate direct benefits to Seventh Generation, but would support industry-level changes, such as regeneratively grown palm that could eventually reach our own products. [Link to Regenerative Palm] While we anticipate that use phase interventions will no longer be a key focus of our efforts, we will continue seeking out opportunities to support policies that enable a systemic shift to fossil fuel-free energy infrastructure and real climate solutions. [Link to Influence]. Climate change continues to be an existential threat to our business and our planet, and we remain fully committed to pushing the boundaries of what leadership in corporate climate action looks like.
2030 Goal - Promote Circularity
Promote Circularity
Circularity is the concept of keeping materials in use and out of landfills by reusing, recycling, and composting them. By promoting circularity, we reduce demand for virgin materials, minimize waste, and slow the degradation of nature, all of which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support climate resilience. Seventh Generation has long supported circularity in our product and packaging design and set circularity-focused targets in our 2025 goals. We’ve made progress, especially in incorporating recycled content into our packaging and leading the way to formulate biobased products. Additionally, while much of our packaging is designed to be reused and recycled, we know that many of our materials end up in landfills due to a lack of adequate recycling infrastructure around the U.S. To address these challenges head on, we set bolder 2030 goals that will move us—and our industry—toward a more sustainable and circular economy.
Promote Circularity, by 2030 we will:
- Source 100% of materials and ingredients from sustainable biobased or recycled feedstocks
- Design products and packaging to be 100% reusable, recyclable, or biodegradable
- 100% of products and packaging are reused, recycled, or degraded
How will we make progress? We’ll get there through a combination of impact and influence. Both on our own and with our Unilever peers, we’ll explore new materials and ingredients and evaluate their efficacy, cost, and potential environmental impact tradeoffs. We’ll use our voice to advocate for policies that ensure people and communities have access to recycling infrastructure that works for them and keeps waste out of landfills. We’ll also educate our industry peers and encourage them to promote their own circularity actions.
2030 Goal - Reduce Plastic Packaging
Reduce Plastic Packaging
We know that plastic is a problem—from packaging and products that are not disposed of properly or that escape the waste system, to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastics derived from fossil fuels. Considering that many plastic packages and products are designed for a single use, it’s not surprising that in Europe and states across the U.S., policies such as extender producer responsibility are being implemented to pressure businesses to reduce their plastic footprints. Seventh Generation has internal targets to reduce plastic packaging, but our 2030 goals include our first public-facing targets. We aim to go beyond regulatory requirements and create new pathways to curbing any unstainable use of plastic in our packaging.
Reduce Plastic Packaging, by 2030 we will:
- Eliminate 75% petro–based virgin plastic packaging
- Eliminate 25% total plastic packaging per use
How will we make progress? Packaging changes at this scale will require both company action and industry-level collaboration. In some cases, such as sustainable biobased feedstocks, innovation is required to create new materials or find ways to use emerging materials in our product and packing portfolios. We don’t know exactly how we will get there, but we have set a business target to roadmap the business and technical interventions we’re planning that will help us achieve our 25% plastic reduction target. For technical interventions, we’ll then engage in robust testing to ensure safety, efficacy, and economic viability before scaling. Where we need market or policy-level actions, like ensuring a reliable supply of post-consumer recycled plastic content, we’ll continue using our influence and advocating for policies that facilitate a shift to a plastic-free future.
Our Impact
We believe that business can be a positive force in the world, so we do our part to reduce negative impacts tied to our products and business operations. As a founding B Corp, we were early adopters of the movement to go beyond profit, and have publicly demonstrated our public commitment to uphold the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Our impact work consistently focuses on our biggest hotspots, and seeks to move our company and our industry forward to address the increasingly urgent climate and planetary crises.
Understanding Our Impact
Our Impact:
Since our founding, we have prioritized the impact of our products and business operations. Our products are formulated to be safer for the planet and safer for people. We continue to reduce chronic toxicants to ensure our products are safe for most people to use [Link to section]. We also set a Science-Based Climate Target [Link to: Our shrinking carbon footprint], which drives us to source materials with lower footprints and employ production and transportation strategies that use less fossil-fuel derived energy. We’re also actively shaping cutting edge approaches to reduce our carbon impacts. With our parent company, Unilever, and in collaboration with industry peers, we’re actioning our Climate Fingerprints to reduce emissions associated with our corporate spending on creative and financial service [Link to Fingerprints section].
Reformulating Products
Many consumers may not be aware that the household products they love to use, while safe and effective, are formulated with ingredients and materials that are derived from fossil fuel-derived inputs (or feedstocks). The production of these inputs generates greenhouse gas emissions. Switching to biobased alternatives could significantly reduce these emissions, with some estimates indicating a 40-80% reduction. As leaders in the movement to transition away from fossil fuel-based inputs, we have been incorporating biobased or plant-based inputs into products for years, starting with our laundry and dish products.
While we prioritize biobased options, we also seek other ways of reducing negative impacts of materials in our formulas. In 2023, two active agents of our cleaning products, citric acid and sodium citrate, accounted for nearly 23% of our greenhouse gas footprint, while fiber-based materials in products and packaging accounted for 20%, making them both key target for interventions. Other strategies for lowering these impacts include substituting lower-impact materials (e.g., recycled content, biobased materials), reducing use, innovating new production processes, or sourcing from partners located closer to our production facilities. In recent years, our teams successfully reduced the use of citric acid and sodium citrate, replacing them with lower carbon alternatives in our 2x and 4x concentrated laundry products and gel dish soap. We also transitioned to more local sources for the remaining materials. While reformulation is a key driver of carbon emissions reductions, it’s also a circularity strategy that can reduce the need for virgin materials, promote a more sustainable model of natural resource use [Link to Promote Circularity], and serve a reminder of the interconnected nature of our actions (and inactions).
Regenerative Palm and Nature
Oil palm derivatives contribute to about one-third of Seventh Generation’s materials-related greenhouse gas emissions. Globally, growing demand in the palm industry has contributed to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and exploitation of farmworkers, making palm oil a key target for intervention. In addition to Responsible Palm Certification for our direct sourcing, we aim to push the industry toward climate-first thinking. In 2023, we invested in two palm projects intended to demonstrate how regenerative agriculture practices could be scaled in the oil palm industry to ultimately improve livelihoods, enhance nature, and drive climate action by restoring forests.
With Wild Asia, a Malaysian-based partner, we’re focused on advancing regenerative agriculture practices with smallholders and large oil palm estates. In 2023, we helped Wild Asia develop a stakeholder-vetted methodology to assess regenerative practices in oil palm and conduct a baseline survey of regenerative practices on farms in the program. Moving forward, we aim to scale use of that methodology and test an approach for incorporating the findings into corporate greenhouse gas inventories.
With Kaleka, a long-time Unilever partner based in Indonesia, we support a landscape-level project to protect forests and trial regenerative management approaches in existing smallholder oil palm farms. In 2023, enrolled farms adopted regenerative agriculture practices including converting from synthetic inputs to organic fertilizers and planning agroforestry crops like lemongrass and ginger within existing oil palm crops. The program also engaged the community in land restoration efforts and provided trainings for forest protection and fire-free land management.
Given the complex nature of how oil palm derivatives travel from field to product, at this time Seventh Generation cannot directly source oil palm from these partners. Our aim is to scale these practices so that regeneratively produced palm becomes the norm, instead of the exception, and can be incorporated into our supply chain.
Green Power Program
Seventh Generation products are produced by a trusted network of third-party manufacturing companies, many of whom are long-standing partners. Historically, third-party manufacturing has accounted for about 5% of our Scope 3, non-consumer use greenhouse emissions. Since we don’t have direct control over how our partners manage their facilities, we created our Green Power Program to engage and incentivize emission reduction actions.
This effort has been a multi-year process. It began with educating our suppliers and helping them procure renewable energy credits (RECs). Today we more directly support their efforts to set climate goals, invest in new renewable energy, track waste, and reduce their absolute emissions. In 2023, thirteen of our contract manufacturers had implemented climate action programs, which reduced the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of our products by 2,900 MT CO2e over three years, cutting emissions from our contract manufacturers in half. Moving forward, we plan to engage our remaining contract manufacturers to reduce emissions from this category to zero, and then turn our attention to other key manufacturing partners.
Financed Banking Emissions
Our groundbreaking 2022 Climate Fingerprints report quantified the impact that cash and investments have on our carbon footprint. Those insights and analysis transformed our strategy and set Seventh Generation on a course of action. As our banking and investment relationships are interconnected with our parent company Unilever, we knew we had to work together to tackle these hidden emissions.
Leaning into our role at Unilever as a “lighthouse,” illuminating the path forward for climate leadership, Seventh Generation encouraged Unilever to participate in an exercise to baseline their financed emissions. We commissioned a report that did both a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of six of Unilever’s primary banking partners. Unilever provided all the necessary data and participated in a review of the findings. We learned that Unilever’s financed emissions from its total cash and cash equivalents are likely to exceed its operational Scope 1 and 2 emissions (CO2e). While we don’t expect this to shift Unilever’s short-term actions on climate, we do see a window for these learnings to shape future strategy and have found we have willing partners in our parent company to implement important change. Together we will continue efforts to learn, engage, and decarbonize our corporate cash.
Decarbonizing Cash: Marketing
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In the development of our 2022 Fingerprints Report, we learned from our partners at Clean Creatives that we needed to better understand how the millions of dollars we spend annually on creative and marketing services impacted the climate crisis—both positively and negatively. Since we have direct control over most of our creative and marketing service relationships, we started by evaluating the climate-related transparency, goals, business initiatives, and leadership of key agency partners. The results pointed to some key opportunities for advancing a more climate-aligned approach to procuring our marketing and creative services and some challenging obstacles that will require a broader, longer-term strategy.
The result is that we’ve asked our key agency partners to sign the Clean Creatives pledge, which commits them to declining work with fossil fuel clients. Several partners, including our creative and public relations agencies of record, have made the commitment and spoken publicly about the need for the creative industry to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. We’re working with Unilever to make it easier for their other brands to procure fossil free agency support as well. We also continue engaging other brands on the journey to decarbonize their marketing and creative services by sharing our detailed process in a Blueprint Case StudyBlueprint Case Study in the hopes that companies worldwide can learn from our experience and take action of their own.
Our Influence
Using business for good means using our name and raising our voice to champion a healthy future for our families and communities. This is not a task we take lightly. Our brand reputation is one of our most valuable assets, and we wield this influence with intention. We’ve long been focused on addressing our reliance on fossil fuels in our products and business operations. And now our advocacy efforts, with an emphasis on climate justice, share this focus.
We believe that businesses should be held accountable for their impact on people and the planet. This belief drives our work, our transparent reporting, and increasingly, our advocacy. This also informs our evolving engagements with our industry peers, like-minded individuals and communities, and legislators.
Understanding Our Influence
Our Influence:
Since our founding, we have prioritized the impact of our products and business operations. Our products are formulated to be safer for the planet and safer for people. We continue to reduce chronic toxicants to ensure our products are safe for most people to use [Link to section]. We also set a Science-Based Climate Target [Link to: Our shrinking carbon footprint], which drives us to source materials with lower footprints and employ production and transportation strategies that use less fossil-fuel derived energy. We’re also actively shaping cutting edge approaches to reduce our carbon impacts. With our parent company, Unilever, and in collaboration with industry peers, we’re actioning our Climate Fingerprints to reduce emissions associated with our corporate spending on creative and financial service [Link to Fingerprints section].
Decarbonizing Corporate Cash
When Seventh Generation published its award-winning Climate Fingerprints report in 2022, it was a milestone in a journey built on years of foundational advocacy work by the Seventh Generation Corporate Consciousness team. It provided a new approach to support industry partners in the challenging work of achieving “real zero” carbon reductions (i.e., without offsets or capture) and decarbonizing corporate spending.
Born in the advocacy community, decarbonizing corporate cash is an emerging concept. The money companies spend on auxiliary business services like banking, retirement, marketing, and insurance is ultimately channeled in ways that may or may not align with the company’s climate values. For example, once Seventh Generation sends our money to a banking partner, that money could then be invested to support the fossil fuel industry—or it could support clean energy expansion. It’s clear where we’d prefer Seventh Generation’s money to be invested! We are working to ensure all of our corporate spending is going to businesses that work against climate change and fossil fuel expansion [Link to: Decarbonizing Marketing and Financed Emissions].
Since the idea that corporate climate can have impacts beyond a company’s value chain is still relatively new, we believed that we’d get further faster with the support of like-minded businesses and expert organizations. Through a loose, voluntary partnership effort with Ben & Jerry’s, Burton, Lush, Patagonia, Clean Creatives, Topo Finance, and Pure Strategies, we’ve shared best practices, gathered case studies and materials, and educated and facilitated peer-to-peer learnings at GreenBiz, GreenFin, Sustainable Brands, and Climate Week. We’re building a movement, sharing both the highs and the lows, and creating a blueprint for a smoother path as other companies seek to decarbonize their corporate spending.
Growing the Climate Movement
Seventh Generation’s consumers likely choose our products for their efficacy and their sustainability attributes. We also believe that many of our consumers are drawn to Seventh Generation because they’re aware of climate change and want to support brands that are aligned with their own values.
We know that many Seventh Generation consumers are deeply concerned about the climate crisis—but far fewer of them know where to start to become advocates. We give a voice to these consumers by creating ways for them to express their concerns with their elected officials and other key decision makers. These pathways guide consumers to a range of voluntary actions like contacting their state legislators to call on President Biden to declare a climate emergency. In 2023, Seventh Generation climate advocates reported taking nearly 60,000 climate actions, with nearly 30,000 people taking action with Seventh Generation for the first time.
We recognize that not all consumers are ready to take climate action, but may want fact-based education on climate policy and its implications. Our partnership with the Green New Deal Network and Vox Media supported the development of stories highlighting the impact of just climate policy on aspects of daily life, including our food and transportation systems. In 2023, these stories reached 24 million people and increased awareness of the climate policies in the Green New Deal policy framework.
The year ahead promises changes in the political dynamic, and we are prepared to help our consumer advocate for a just climate future.
Advocating for Climate Justice Policies
Climate legislation is key to a climate-safe future, and in recent years the most ambitious climate policy work has happened in state legislatures. Building on years of partnership with our advocacy partners, we have been actively cultivating support for just climate policy in key states including Vermont and New York.
In 2023 under the leadership of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, we advocated with Vermont’s robust community of socially responsible businesses for climate policy in our home state. And across Lake Champlain in New York state, we continued to organize the New York business community as part of the New York Businesses for Climate Justice coalition, which Seventh Generation co-founded as part of our partnership with NYRenews. Over the course of the legislative session, we brought nearly 20 business leaders to Albany to advocate in person for just climate policy, including the Build Public Renewables Act, which was signed into law.
In 2023, we also embarked on a new partnership with the Green New Deal Network. We know that to create the systemic change needed to address the climate crisis with justice and equity, we need to grow the size of the climate movement. The partnership with the Green New Deal Network helped our consumer audience connect the dots between just climate policy and our food and transportation systems, real issues that impact each of us every day.
After our home state of Vermont was hit by devasting flooding twice in 2023, we were able to step up our state-based advocacy work in both Vermont and New York State. We partnered with local advocacy organizations and coalitions to drive progress on legislation that would hold the biggest greenhouse gas polluters in each state financially accountable for the damage caused, creating a fund for each state to use for climate mitigation and resilience efforts. With the leadership of VPIRG, VBSRVBSR, and others, we’re proud that Vermont became the first state in the nation to pass the Climate Change Superfund Act into law. In New York State, by partnering with NY Renews and again engaging dozens of NYS business leaders, we helped the Climate Change Superfund Act pass both the NYS Senate and Assembly. As of October 2024, that legislation is awaiting Governor Hochul’s signature.
Toxics Reduction
Seventh Generation has done the hard work to reduce chronic toxicants in our products, but that doesn’t mean our work is done. Toxic chemicals still exist in everyday consumer products, and Seventh Generation continues supporting legislation that aims to keep them out—or at the very least, inform consumers so that they may make the best decisions for themselves and their families. In 2023 we supported Vermont legislation that restricts intentionally adding PFAS in certain consumer products. As active members in the American Cleaning Institute’s Sustainable Solutions Working Group, we supported efforts to increase access to biobased feedstocks in cleaning products. Our effort to produce and promote less toxic products was recognized by the U.S. EPA with a Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award. While we celebrate the wins, we recognize that this work isn’t complete—we will continue leading for continued reduction of toxics across our industry and in our communities.
As we continue refining our advocacy strategy, we work to empower people, especially those most vulnerable to climate change, to hold businesses and government accountable for the impacts their decisions have on people and the planet.
Honoring Our Name
While our brand name was inspired by an Iroquois philosophy and born of true admiration, we acknowledge that it was also appropriated from Indigenous wisdom. To confront this reality, we’ve been on a journey of learning, unlearning, and relearning so that we can fully live up to our values.
Honoring Our Name
Honoring Our Name:
Since our founding, we have prioritized the impact of our products and business operations. Our products are formulated to be safer for the planet and safer for people. We continue to reduce chronic toxicants to ensure our products are safe for most people to use [Link to section]. We also set a Science-Based Climate Target [Link to: Our shrinking carbon footprint], which drives us to source materials with lower footprints and employ production and transportation strategies that use less fossil-fuel derived energy. We’re also actively shaping cutting edge approaches to reduce our carbon impacts. With our parent company, Unilever, and in collaboration with industry peers, we’re actioning our Climate Fingerprints to reduce emissions associated with our corporate spending on creative and financial service [Link to Fingerprints section].
Our Internal Relearning 
In 2023 as part of our Climate and Social Justice work, we began what we anticipate will be an ongoing journey to strengthen our understanding of the inspiration behind our name and the experiences of Indigenous Peoples in our region. We started this journey as a step to help us, the employees of Seventh Generation, be more informed, authentic, and skilled champions of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and to appropriately honor the heritage of our name.
Guided by historical learning and the lived experiences of Indigenous community members, educators, artists, and leaders from our region, we sought to create a space for collective and individual growth for the Seventh Generation community. With partners from Live Oak Consulting, we offered virtual trainings designed to build a shared foundation of knowledge. We held sessions on local Abenaki culture and history, the historical and ongoing impacts of colonialism on people and the planet, decolonization, and pathways to justice. Later in the year, with in-person and virtual options, we held a viewing of DAWNLAND, the Emmy® winning documentary film about stolen children and cultural survival, and reflected on the experience of the Maine-Wabanaki truth and reconciliation commission, a story that hits close to home for the Seventh Generation community in nearby Vermont. Building on these learnings, we organized sessions at our annual in-person retreat to learn from the lived experiences of Abenaki leaders on the current state of progress and the issues they’re still facing in Vermont.
As we’ve progressed through this learning journey, our Seventh Generation community has expressed a range of feelings about their experiences—deep appreciation, optimism, and connection, as well as discomfort and uncertainty. We know that the work of learning, unlearning, and relearning our own story is challenging, and we hope that this honest reflection is indicative of growth that will help us to authentically and deeply contribute to a fairer and more inclusive world.
Realigning Our Foundation
Since 2012, the Seventh Generation Foundation has granted over $3 million to organizations and movements stewarding social and environmental progress. In recent years as we’ve begun the work as a company to confront the roots of our name which, although born of true admiration, we recognize is appropriated from Native American wisdom, our Foundation has also been a part of the journey. In 2019, we committed to direct at least 50% of grant gifts to Indigenous-led organizations. As we continued on this journey, we knew we had to dig deeper and change how we make grant decisions to help shift the power dynamic in philanthropic giving.
This led to a 2022 decision that 100% of Foundation funds would be informed by and directed to Indigenous-led organizations. To operationalize this intention of centering Indigenous people in the design, development, and decision making, in 2023 Seventh Generation convened an Indigenous Advisory board representing a wide range of Indigenous communities and geographical regions. The Indigenous Advisory board guided the process to redesign our grant program, principles, and evaluation criteria. The recharted Seventh Generation Foundation, Seven Generations RISE, is funded by Seventh Generation and led by the advisory board of Indigenous leaders.
In 2024 the Indigenous Advisory board will initiate its first round of giving with 100% of grants going to Indigenous communities and movements, with a focus on multi-year grants for youth, food sovereignty, social justice, environmental justice, political activism, cultural practice and ceremony, decolonization, education, language revitalization, and leadership development across the U.S. and occupied territories. We believe that this next iteration of the Seventh Generation Foundation honors our founding vision for social and environmental progress by focusing squarely on justice, equity, and doing the greatest good for Indigenous communities.
As a result of our Decarbonizing Corporate Cash work [Link to Financed Emissions], the Foundation aligned its climate and banking values and changed its banking relationship to Amalgamated Bank, a bank that demonstrates its commitments through investments in net zero and social justice endeavors, rather than with the fossil fuel industry. While smaller in scale, this too is a marker of aligning values with action. As a subsidiary of a much larger company (Unilever), this change is both practical, because it is within our direct control, and symbolic, because it demonstrates our willingness to make the changes necessary to live our values.
We anticipate that the journey to truly honor our name will take time and that along the way we’ll experience challenging conversations and emotions, but we will continue striving to be creative, innovative, and collaborative through our impact [Link to Impact] and by leveraging our influence [Link to Influence].
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