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Building resilience is essential to our business. 

The health of people, nature, and the shared resources we depend on is increasingly under pressure from climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity. As these impacts intensify, so does the urgency to act.

We are transforming how we work to build resilience across our value chain, reduce our environmental footprint and provide solutions to help people manage the impact of environmental changes on their everyday health, enabling lasting value for our stakeholders and the communities we operate in. We do this by:

  • Cutting carbon emissions – because a healthy planet underpins human health. We use 100% renewable electricity across our manufacturing sites and are targeting net zero carbon emissions from source to sale by 2040, aligned to guidance from The Climate Pledge and Race to Zero1. 
  • Making packaging more sustainable - because the materials we use in our packaging matter. We aim for all packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 20303, where safety, quality and regulations permit. We have rolled out recycle-ready toothpaste tubes and are scaling up current initiatives and launching new ones to reduce our use of virgin plastic by replacing it with recycled or bio-based plastic.
  • Managing natural resources more responsibly – because thriving natural ecosystems sustain our business and our health. We work to sustainably source the key ingredients in our products and focus on good water stewardship across our sites to ensure these shared resources are managed equitably and responsibly.
  • Supporting our people and partners - To deliver our sustainability commitments we develop and empower our own people and collaborate with individuals, industries and communities across our value chain, from mint farmers to packaging experts, scientists and health professionals, to develop the skills, capabilities and solutions needed to enable people to achieve better everyday health today and tomorrow. You can read more on our dedicated page.

Haleon’s Environmental Sustainability Policy sets out the standards and commitments that guide our work across carbon, packaging, sourcing, water and waste.

We apply a sustainability impact assessment tool to innovation projects, helping teams understand how design choices affect environmental performance. New products are only be approved when their impact is the same as or better than previous products, unless there is a strong justification.

Read our Climate Action Transition Plan for more information on our environmental action.

  • Cutting carbon emissions - scope 1 & 2 emissions

    Our Goal: We aim to reduce our net Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 100% by 2030 vs. a 2020 baseline.2

    Scope 1 and 2 emissions are those generated by activities in Haleon’s operational control, either from the direct burning of fossil fuels or indirectly from the energy we procure. They make up about 7% of our total value chain carbon footprint.

    Our Scope 1 and 2 carbon reduction strategy focuses on three areas:

    • Decarbonising our heat production by electrifying our heat, switching fuels, and abating any remaining emissions through additional and high-quality carbon offsets.
    • Expanding renewable electricity, through on‑site and near‑site installations, Renewable Energy Certificates, and long‑term agreements such as our European Virtual Power Purchase Agreement.
    • Driving energy reduction through energy efficiency and management programmes.

  • Cutting carbon emissions - scope 3 emissions

    Our Goal: We aim to reduce our Scope 3 carbon emissions from source to sale by 42% by 2030 vs a 2022 baseline.3

    Scope 3 emissions are those generated throughout our supply chain, from the raw materials we use to manufacture and package our products, to the consumer use and disposal of them. Emissions generated by the raw materials, active pharmaceutical ingredients, packaging and services we buy and use to make our products make up the bulk of our carbon emissions, and are our key focus for lowering our carbon footprint. We have identified the key contributors to our Scope 3 emissions and are focused on systematically reducing their impact.

    Our Scope 3 emissions-reduction strategy is focused on three areas:

    • Optimise: short-term actions we can take to decarbonise across our value chain, driven by the co-benefits of other environmental initiatives (for example, right-sizing our packaging and switching from virgin plastic to recycled plastic) and by working with our suppliers to incentivise their transition to renewable energy.
    • Re-engineer: reducing and/or replacing carbon emission-intensive raw and packaging materials.
    • Re-invent: re-designing product formats and formulations to dramatically reduce their carbon emission footprints.

  • Making our packaging more sustainable

    Virgin Plastic Reduction

    Our Goal:4 We aim to reduce our use of virgin petroleum-based plastic by 10% by 2025. Our longer‑term ambition now is to reduce virgin plastic use by one‑third by 2030.

    We continue to reduce our use of virgin plastic by:

    • Scaling the use of recycled and bio-based materials across our largest packaging formats, including bottles, tubes and caps.
    • Improving packaging design efficiency, reducing the total amount of material used through rightsizing, compact formats and the removal of unnecessary components.
    • Developing and adopting new materials and technologies, including emerging low-carbon resins and innovative packaging formats that circularity.
    • Partnering across the value chain to improve the availability, quality and regulatory acceptance of recycled and alternative materials, and to strengthen global recycling infrastructure.


    Recyle-ready packaging

    We achieved our goal to develop solutions for all product packaging to be recycle-ready by 20255, as part of our wider ambition for all packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2030 where safety, quality and regulations permit.

    Making our packaging recycle-ready is a key milestone to achieving recyclability, whereby a packaging format is effectively collected, sorted and recycled in practice and at scale in at least one region.

    Our packaging content is made up of several different raw materials. Paper packaging accounts for about half of our packaging footprint, the vast majority of which is recycle-ready today. For our plastic packaging, our primary focus for recycle-ready is on our products sold in tubes and bottles as these formats account for the largest share of our plastic packaging.

    Our Approach includes:

    • Removing problematic plastics such as PVC
    • Transitioning to mono-materials, including moving toothpaste tubes away from aluminium barrier layers into mono-material HDPE
    • Selecting materials compatible with existing and emerging recycling streams

  • Managing natural resources responsibly - Palm Oil

    Our Goal: We aim for all key agricultural, forest and marine‑derived materials used in our ingredients and packaging to be sustainably sourced and deforestation‑free by 20306, aligned with Haleon’s globally managed spend. Progress toward this goal reached 94% in 20257.

    The annual volume of palm oil derivatives that Haleon uses is low in comparison with total global palm oil production volumes. Nevertheless, we take our responsibility to address our impacts seriously.  We are working to sustainably source palm oil derivatives with certifications that also allow us to improve the palm oil traceability and transparency in our supply chain. We use recognised global certification programmes wherever possible, for example Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Mass-Balance (RSPO MB). Haleon is also a member of Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD), a collaborative initiative that brings together companies in the cosmetics, home, personal care, and oleochemicals industries to collectively tackle supply chain issues regarding palm oil and palm kernel oil.

  • Managing natural resources responsibly - Paper packaging

    Our Goal: We aim for all key agricultural, forest and marine‑derived materials used in our ingredients and packaging to be sustainably sourced and deforestation‑free by 20306. In 2025, 82% of our paper‑based packaging was sustainably sourced7 contributing to the wider progress we have made toward our ambition.

    Paper packaging makes up around half of our total packaging footprint, the vast majority of which is already recycle‑ready.

    To support responsible paper sourcing, we work closely with suppliers to increase traceability and ensure our paper‑based materials come from recycled or certified sources. This includes Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and other recognised Chain‑of‑Custody certification schemes. Where certification is not available for specific materials, we apply sustainable sourcing standards developed with independent experts.

  • Managing natural resources responsibly - Mint

    Our Goal: We aim for all key agricultural, forest and marine‑derived materials used in our ingredients and packaging to be sustainably sourced and deforestation‑free by 20306. This includes mint, which forms part of Haleon’s globally managed spend across key natural materials. 92% of Mint sourced in 20257 was sustainably sourced, supported by programmes such as the Healthy Mint Supply Chain initiative.

    In 2023 we established our Healthy Mint Supply Chain Programme, which aimed to uphold robust health and safety standards in mint farming, improve farmers’ livelihoods, and support better health in mint growing communities, while reducing the environmental impact of mint production.

  • Managing natural resources responsibly - Water

    Sustainable water management is an important part of our Health Inclusivity and Sustainability strategy. Water is a shared and precious natural resource, so we aim to ensure our water consumption is environmentally sustainable and socially equitable. We’re members of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS), a global membership collaboration that includes businesses, NGOs and the public sector who adopt and promote a universal framework for the sustainable use of water to reduce their water impact.

    Our Goal: We aim to achieve Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) standard certification at all our manufacturing sites by 2025'. A foonote should be added to this which reads: The end point for the goal delivery period is the end of the 2025 calendar year.

    In 2025, we achieved AWS Standard certification at all 24 of our manufacturing sites8, marking an important milestone in our commitment to responsible water use. This builds on our broader ambition to reach water neutrality at all Haleon sites located in water‑stressed basins9 by 2030.

    We are continuing to improve water efficiency across our operations by introducing new reuse systems that strengthen site resilience. In parallel, we are enhancing water quality by upgrading wastewater treatment technologies and increasing expectations for 3rd party manufacturers, including the use of advanced treatments to help minimise residual API in wastewater.

    Water stewardship depends on collaboration. We work closely with local stakeholders, NGOs, watershed organisations and other water users to identify shared water challenges and develop basin‑level solutions.

     

    Image credit: WWF South Africa

     

  • Managing natural resources responsibly - Waste Circularity

    We are working to embed circular economy principles across our operations by shifting how materials are managed and reused at our sites. Our goal is to increase waste circularity by certifying all manufacturing sites to be TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Standard, which focuses on keeping materials in use for longer and reducing the amount of waste sent for disposal.

    Our Goal: We aim to achieve TRUE certification at all our manufacturing sites by 2030.

    In 2025, 11 out of our 24 manufacturing sites8 had achieved TRUE certification, reflecting continued progress toward our 2030 ambition. Sites are improving waste segregation, identifying new reuse opportunities and strengthening recycling systems, supported by routine waste audits and targeted actions to increase circularity.

1. Our net zero target spans carbon emission categories from source to sale (excluding GHG protocol categories 6, 7, 10-15). It covers mandatory Scope 3 upstream and downstream emissions. It excludes indirect consumer use-phase emissions, such as emissions associated with water used with our products.

2. Our goal to reduce net Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 100% by 2030 is underpinned by a 95% absolute reduction target.  

3. Our Scope 3 carbon emissions target spans carbon emission categories from source to sale (excluding GHG protocol categories 6, 7, 10-15). It covers mandatory Scope 3 upstream and downstream emissions. It excludes indirect consumer use-phase emissions, such as emissions associated with water used with our products. 

4. The end point for the goal delivery period is the end of the 2025 calendar year. Scope includes product packaging and some devices, including toothbrushes.

5. The end point for the goal delivery period is the end of the 2025 calendar year.  The scope includes packaging and some devices, including toothbrushes. The reported results do not exclude packaging where there is not a recycle-ready solution that meets stringent safety, quality and regulatory requirements for healthcare packaging.

6. Scope includes Haleon’s globally managed spend on key materials that are agricultural, forest, or marine-derived. Globally managed spend covers the majority of our internal spend and expands across some of our third-party manufacturing network.

7. Reporting period = 1 July (prior year) to 30 June (reporting year). 

8. Haleon has 25 manufacturing sites. The increase from 24 sites last year is due to the Company now treating its two sites in Suzhou, China, as separate sites for operational purposes. 24 of our 25 sites are included in our water and waste goals. Maidenhead is excluded as it ceased manufacturing operations this year (2025). 

9. Determined using publicly available tools to identify water risk like the WRI Aqueduct Tool, site-specific reviews of local water risk using local data and a materiality of the risk to the business.

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