At Flora Food Group, we strive to develop the next generation of delicious, natural and nutritious food that is both more affordable and more sustainable than dairy equivalents. In general, our products offer a lower-carbon choice for consumers compared to dairy equivalents. We are committed to the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) in 2023 and our goal is to reach net zero by 2050. Understanding our material emissions is imperative to progress against our net zero target. Explore how we are tracking, tracing and tackling our climate impact across key areas below.
Understanding our impact
Encouraging more people to adopt healthy, sustainable diets is a major form of climate action. Plant-based ingredients typically require fewer natural resources and generate lower GHG emissions than animal-sourced foods.
We offer consumers a compelling choice with lower-carbon emissions than dairy equivalents. Using science-based approaches, we measure and demonstrate our impact, ensuring actions align with the latest advancements in sustainability.
Since 2018, we have been calculating the environmental impact of our products through peer reviewed, ISO-compliant, life cycle assessments (LCAs) and putting carbon information on packs. This year, we further developed our approach, making comparative environmental and climate assessments and calculating the avoided pressures of our portfolio.
Comparative Portfolio Assessment
Our 2024 study, conducted by a specialist sustainability advisor, analysed about 50% of our worldwide product portfolio.
Some of our products may perform better or worse than the reported results as this reflects a weighted average across categories. Individual product claims, where used, are available on brand websites. We continue to work on enhancing data accuracy and the environmental performance of our products.
Learn about our methodology here.
Avoided Pressures of our Portfolio
The figures reported as avoided pressures allows us to communicate the enabling role of our products in decarbonisation of the food sector. It’s a measure of the commercial solutions available and their respective environmental footprints. We modelled these figures following WBCSD guidance on avoided emissions.
In 2024, choosing Flora Food Group’s butters and spreads, creams and cheeses, compared to a representative market mix of dairy and non-dairy alternatives, avoided an estimated 2.7 million tonnes CO₂ -equivalent emissions, 4,028 km2 land occupation, and 67.5 million m3 of water withdrawal globally.
Avoided Pressure |
Flora FG Portfolio* |
This equals to … |
| Avoided GHG Emissions [million tonnes CO2-eq] |
2.7 | …over two years of electricity usage in Amsterdam. |
| Avoided Land Occupation [km2a] |
4,028 | ….the land area the size of approximately 1,180 New York City’s Central Parks. |
| Avoided Water Withdrawal [million m3] |
67.5 | ...the water volume sufficient to fill more than 27,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. |
*Learn about our methodology here.
By helping more people switch to our products, away from conventional dairy, we can contribute even more to global emissions reductions. We aim to inspire this shift to lower carbon products, while also achieving our net zero emissions targets for 2030 and 2050.
We have committed to near-term (2030) and long-term (2050) science-based targets as they provide a credible and effective framework for achieving meaningful climate action. To facilitate effective climate action, we have developed a decarbonisation pathway for accelerating progress towards our 2030 interim net zero targets- our Climate Transition Plan. Progress towards our climate targets is detailed in our Annual Report. We will reevaluate regularly and update our analysis, plans and actions to work towards our 2050 net zero target.
Prior to developing our Climate Transition Plan, we partnered with climate experts to conduct a climate scenario analysis aligned with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). More details of our TCFD assessment and findings, can be found in our TCFD report here.
Our climate efforts also help retailers and food services decarbonise their supply chains, reducing their Scope 3 emissions and reach their own net zero targets.
