Forever chocolate
REPORT COCOA
Barry Callebaut has released its Forever Chocolate Progress report for 2019/2020, outlining its achievements in making sustainable chocolate the ‘norm’. Kennedy’s Confection takes a look.
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arry Callebaut launched Forever Chocolate in 2016 as part of its plan to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025. It is its commitment to have more than 500,000 cocoa farmers in its supply chain lifted
out of poverty, eradicate child labour from its supply chain, become carbon and forest positive and have 100% sustainable ingredients in all of its products. On an annual basis, Barry Callebaut report on the progress of these time bound, measurable, targets, which are verified by a third-party auditor.
As part of its goal to end deforestation, and to become forest positive, the company continues to map cocoa farms in its direct supply chain within 25 kilometres of a protected forest area in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon.
Let’s take a look at what has been achieved so far…
Carbon and forest positive
It the recent Forever Chocolate report, Barry Callebaut has announced that it has made “great progress” on its journey to becoming carbon positive by 2025, meaning it will store more carbon than it emits. Its carbon reduction efforts so far have resulted in an 8.1% reduction of its corporate carbon footprint, from 8.5 million tonnes to 7.8 million tonnes CO2e. According to Barry Callebaut, the main drivers of this achievement are reduced carbon emissions from land use change, to increased sourcing of certified ingredients and reduced carbon intensity in factories. The report also highlights that more than one-third of its 61 processing plants are now powered by renewable energy.
28 Kennedy’s Confection December 2020
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