Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created in 2015 to establish a path towards a more sustainable and better future for all. The 17 goals are an interconnected call to action, recognising that activity against one target affects the outcomes of others and that progress must be made across many areas to achieve real change.

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SDG 2 - Zero Hunger

 

Nutrition Health and Wellbeing

  • - Our strategy

  • - Disclosing the proportions of meat and plant protein sold by waitrose

  • - Setting a target for healthier products

  • - Improving the nutritional value of our food and drink products

  • - Use of our Good Health logo

  • - Healthier communities, partnerships for health

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SDG 3 - Good Health and Wellbeing

 

Nutrition Health and Wellbeing

  • - Disclosing the proportions of meat and plant protein sold by waitrose

  • - Setting a target for healthier products

  • - Use of our Good Health logo

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SDG 5 - Gender Equality
 

People In Supply Chains

  • - Our strategy

  • - Signing up to the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs)

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SDG 7 - Affordable Clean Energy
 

Climate Action

  • - Our Strategy

  • - Task Force on Climate-related Financial disclosures

  • - Electrification of vehicles

  • - Improved energy efficiency in our physical estate

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SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
 

People in Supply Chains

  • - Our strategy

  • - Better Jobs programme

  • - Waitrose & Partner Foundation

  • - Human Rights Impacts assessments

  • - Fairtrade

  • - Responsible Sourcing Code of Practice

  • - Supplier onboarding and due diligence process

  • - Worker Grievance Mechanisms

  • - Promoting a “Just Transition”

Aquaculture and  Fisheries

  • - Protecting the Welfare and Safety of those working in the fishing sector

Raw Material Sourcing

  • - Human Rights in Commodity supply chains
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SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities


People in Supply Chains

  • - Our strategy

  • - Achieving gender equality

  • - Supporting Smallholder farmers

  • - Promoting a “Just Transition”

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SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

 

Social Impact

  • - Our strategy

  • - Community Matters

  • - The John Lewis and Partners Foundation

  • - The John Lewis Partnership Golden Jubilee Trust

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SDG 12- Responsible Consumption and Production
 

Circularity and Waste

  • - Our strategy

  • - Partners against Waste

  • - Circularity

  • - Plastics and packaging

  • - Food waste

  • - Tackling food waste at home

  • - Waste in the supply chain

 

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SDG 13 - Climate Action
 

Climate action

  • - Our strategy

  • - Transport

  • - Electrification of vehicles

  • - Buildings

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SDG 14 - Life Below Water
 

Aquaculture and Fisheries

  • - Animal Welfare

  • - On land and at sea

  • - Fishing responsibly

  • - Transparency, traceability and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing

  • - Aquaculture policies

  • - Fish feed and feed development

Climate Action

  • - Biodiversity
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SDG 15 - Life on Land


Agriculture

  • - Our agriculture plan

  • - Animal welfare

  • - Our policies and performance

  • - The Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA)

Climate Action

  • - Biodiversity

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SDG 17 - Partnership for the Goals
 

People in supply chains

  • - Ethical Trade Initiative

  • - Stronger Together

  • - ISSARA

  • - Fairtrade

 Raw Material Sourcing

  • - Better Cotton

  • - Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)

  • - UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya 

  • - Retail Soy Group

  • - Soy Transparency Coalition

  • - Responsible Commodities Facility

  • - Retailer’s Palm Oil Group

  • - UK Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

  • - Palm Oil Transparency Coalition

  • - Forest Conservation Fund

  • - Retailer’s Cocoa Collaboration

  • - Sustainable Fibre Alliance (SFA)

  • - Leather Working Group (LWG)

Circularity and Waste

  • - UK Plastics Pact

Climate Action

  • - Science Based Targets

  • - Taskforce on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD)

Biodiversity

  • - WWF

  • - Science Based Targets for Nature

Social Impact

  • - Fareshare

  • - The Trussell Trust

  • - Home-Start UK

  • - British Red Cross

  • - The Prince’s Countryside Fund

  • - The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund

  • - The John Spedan Lewis Foundation