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When we set our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan targets ten years ago, we knew we would have to work immensely hard on multiple fronts to meet them. And that’s what we have done. What we didn’t realise was how hard it would be to measure our progress.

We’re supporting global and national efforts to help protect lives and livelihoods during the Coronavirus pandemic. Here are just a few examples of how we’re contributing.

For more than a century, we’ve been a business driven by purpose. And ten years ago, with our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), we set out on a journey to become the world’s most sustainable business.

A decade ago, the soap brand set out to make handwashing with soap a habit for more than 1 billion people by 2020. Here’s how it reached that goal, and why it’s still committed to making an even bigger impact in the years to come.

How a day to raise awareness became a practical, replicable behavioural change programme reaching 28 million people with clean, safe toilets.

Over the last ten years, Knorr has been working to create food that’s good for people and for the planet. We’ve come a long way, but what we’ve built is only the beginning.

Taking the lead in sustainable sourcing has seen us improve livelihoods, crop standards, human rights, transparency and traceability. Much has been achieved and there’s more to come.

Tracing the origin of every single category of raw material that we buy is a huge challenge. Experience has taught us that our influence for change is greatest where we have the clearest line of sight throughout the chain – so that’s where we are focusing.

Ten years ago we set out on a journey to become the world’s most sustainable business. As we celebrate a decade of our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, we're reflecting on what we've learnt and what comes next.

Our Global Nutrition Director hopes we will appreciate the value of where and how food is produced, and relish the joy of cooking and eating together. Here she shares her personal views on how the pandemic could change our perspective long-term.

In Brazil, we have joined forces with brewer Heineken to create a special line of Cif sanitising cleaner to help disadvantaged residents of the country’s most populous city deal with Covid-19.

As part of global efforts to use our expertise and resources to help tackle coronavirus, we have adapted one of our deodorant manufacturing lines in the UK to produce much-needed supplies of hand sanitiser for the NHS.