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Danone Achieves CDP ‘Triple A’ Recognition for Environmental Leadership and Transparency

Stuart Mitchell

Danone has been recognized on the CDP ‘Triple A’ List for 2025, underscoring its leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change, water stewardship, and forest preservation. This achievement reflects Danone’s commitment to rigorous disclosure and verified action on environmental topics. Nearly 20,000 companies were scored this year, with only 23 achieving a triple A score in the three environmental fields, which places Danone among the global leaders demonstrating mature environmental governance and meaningful progress towards environmental resilience. Year after year, we deliver tangible progress on our health, environmental,…

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Danone achieves B Corp™ certification worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

Danone has officially achieved B Corp™ certification worldwide, becoming a global leader in B Corp™ certification at scale. With more than 200 legal Danone entities now certified in over 60 countries, Danone employees represent around 9% of the global B Corp™ movement workforce. This milestone marks the culmination of a 10-year journey which began in 2015, underscoring Danone’s long-standing commitment to delivering business success while driving positive social and environmental impact. Over the past decade, Danone has progressively certified its eligible subsidiaries – beginning in Spain and expanding across multiple…

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Danone launches the Iron Up! program to accelerate its efforts in the fight against Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children

Stuart Mitchell

Danone announces the launch of Iron Up! the first global program of its kind set up to supercharge the company’s efforts to combat iron deficiency in children. Iron deficiency is the leading cause of anemia, a condition affecting more than 40% of children under five globally. Despite its prevalence, iron deficiency anemia remains often undetected and undertreated due to low awareness of its symptoms and causes, insufficient screening, and suboptimal nutrition. “At Danone we are convinced nutrition can make a positive, proven difference to health especially in those early years”…

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Danone is equipping 6,500 smallholder dairy farmers with biodigesters to reduce methane emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after its release. Dairy companies can play a meaningful role in reducing methane. This is because methane emissions from agriculture and livestock make up approximately 40% of global methane emissions, with dairy cattle representing an estimated 8% of these emissions. In 2023, Danone was the first food company to align with the Global Methane Pledge to reduce 30% of methane emissions from fresh milk by 2030. Since 2020,…

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Danone And Prevented Ocean Plastic Partner To Open First Major Plastic Collection Centre In Borneo, Indonesia

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic™ Southeast Asia announces the opening of its new recycled plastic aggregation centre in Samarinda, in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The centre is opening in partnership with consumer goods company Danone, through its Indonesian bottled water brand AQUA, and is part of the wider efforts of the internationally recognised Prevented Ocean Plastic™ programme. AQUA funded the centre’s construction and will be a major customer for the recycled plastic processed there. According to the National Waste Management Information System (SIPSN) in 2022, the…

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