Hershey Highlights Their 2021 Progress Towards Positive and Lasting Change Worldwide - Seite 2

Making a Bigger Commitment to Combat Climate Change

Addressing climate change and meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement demands change in how our world works and the way we use resources. To play our part, we announced science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals in March 2021. The goal commits us to cutting our absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 50% and our absolute Scope 3 emissions by 25% by 2030, against a 2018 baseline. We're already taking action to meet our goal, including signing power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will enable the construction of three new utility-scale solar farms. We also made substantial progress toward our Scope 1 and 2 emissions targets through improvements in energy efficiency. To reduce value chain emissions (Scope 3), we committed to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation from our ingredient supply chains by 2030 and are investing in sustainable packaging solutions. For more information, see page 49.

Working to Eliminate Child Labor in Cocoa

Our investment in cocoa communities is continuing to help improve lives in West Africa. To monitor, prevent and remediate instances of child labor, we remain committed to 100% sourcing visibility by 2025 for farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, and continue to ensure 100% of the cocoa volume we source in these countries is covered by a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) by 2025. In 2021, Hershey supported CLMRS covered nearly 103,000 children, and we expect to increase that to approximately 125,000 children by 2025. In addition, through our Energize Learning school feeding program, Hershey is distributing ViVi, a highly nutritious peanut-based therapeutic food, to 45,000 children daily in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. For more information, see page 24.

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