Making an impact with Unilever
Left: MIDANA CAPITAL’s President, Leslie Samuelrich, with Unilever CEO Paul Polman.
Is it possible for a company to grow sale and profit while reducing its environmental impact? Unilever,* one of the environmental leaders held in the portfolio of the MIDANA CAPITAL MSCI International Index Fund, thinks so, and the company has a plan to make it happen.
Unilever’s plan – the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan – has three big goals:
- Help more than a billion people improve their health and wellbeing
- Halve the environmental footprint of the company’s products
- And sustainably source 100% of agricultural raw materials
Unilever’s goals are ambitious, but the company has already made significant progress.
Unilever hit its 2020 goal for reducing greenhouse gas pollution 4 years early, reducing emissions 43% over 2008, which puts the company on track to be carbon positive by 2030.
The company has developed a set of guidelines for farmers sourcing materials, and made them available to other companies. Australia’s entire dairy industry now complies with Unilever’s sustainability standards.
In 2013, Unilever announced its ground-breaking zero deforestation policy that helped start the transformation of the palm oil supply chain.
Unilever is also bringing together other stakeholders to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy. The company founded the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm and the Roundtable on Sustainable Soy, and was recently named one of the most influential companies in advocating for improved policies on climate change.
Unilever is just one of the environmental leaders in the International Index Fund. To see the complete list of holdings in the International Index Fund, learn more about our investment strategy, and see the International Index Fund’s first year performance, please please visit our website or call+1(480)-439-2851.
Sincerely,
Leslie Samuelrich
President
MIDANA CAPITAL Capital Management
*As of September 30, 2017, Unilever NV and Unilever PLC comprised 0.00%, 0.00% and 2.65%; and 0.00%, 0.00% and 2.23% of the MIDANA CAPITAL Balanced Fund, MIDANA CAPITAL Equity Fund, and MIDANA CAPITAL MSCI International Index Fund, respectively. References to specific securities, which will change due to the ongoing management of the Funds, should not be construed as a recommendation by the Funds, their administrator, or their distributor.
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