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Tetra Pak advances food system resilience with 34% emissions cut
Tetra Pak has released its FY25 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain and operations while advancing efforts to strengthen the resilience of global food systems.
In 2025, the company achieved a 34% reduction in value chain GHG emissions compared with 2019 levels, representing an improvement of nearly 12 percentage points from the previous year. Emissions from its own operations fell by 56%, while renewable energy accounted for 97% of the company’s energy consumption.
Focus on building resilient food systems:
Tetra Pak said its sustainability strategy increasingly focuses on linking emissions reductions with long-term food system resilience.
The company is directing investment and resources toward areas where it believes it can create the greatest long-term value, supporting more efficient and resilient food production while reducing environmental impact.
“Feeding a growing global population is becoming ever more complex as environmental risks intensify. This is why we remain firmly committed to strengthening the resilience of the world’s food systems,” said Adolfo Orive, President and CEO of Tetra Pak.
“With clear, measurable targets in place, 2025 marked a year of tangible progress, including passing the milestone of a one-third reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain. Achieving lasting change depends on collaboration, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with our customers and partners to turn shared ambition into enduring progress.”
Climate, nature assessment guides strategy:
To support decision-making and investment planning, Tetra Pak developed and launched an integrated climate and nature risk and opportunity assessment in 2025.
The assessment identified priority risks and opportunities across the company’s operations and value chain and was accompanied by plans to address each priority area. The company also updated its Approach to Nature framework and introduced new or revised targets in response to developments across key sustainability areas.
New technologies aim to improve efficiency:
During 2025, Tetra Pak introduced and expanded several initiatives designed to help customers reduce utility, material, and energy consumption.
The company continued promoting a total cost of ownership approach that evaluates the full lifecycle cost of equipment and launched Tetra Pak Factory OS™, a new automation and digital ecosystem designed to help customers better identify and reduce operational losses through scalable and data-driven technologies.
Expanding global innovation network:
Tetra Pak expanded its network of innovation centers during the year with the opening of a Product Development Center in Cholet, France, a Customer Innovation Centre in Bangkok, Thailand, and a New Food Technology Development Center in Karlshamn, Sweden.
The facilities are designed to help customers test innovations, accelerate product development, and scale food production solutions.
Progress toward long-term climate goals:
The company said current progress keeps it on track to meet its long-term climate commitments, including reducing value chain emissions by 46% by 2030, reaching 100% renewable electricity consumption across operations by 2030, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Additional sustainability milestones:
Among other highlights in the FY25 Sustainability Report, Tetra Pak invested approximately €100 million in packaging research and development. The investment contributed to the launch of a paper-based barrier for juice packages, which the company said delivers a 43% lower carbon footprint than aseptic packaging containing an aluminium foil layer and fossil-based polymer.
The company also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) during COP30 to support innovation aimed at decarbonizing food systems.
School feeding programs supported by Tetra Pak reached 68 million children across 52 countries in 2025, up from 66 million children and 49 countries a year earlier.
Additional initiatives included an in-depth review of priority human rights impacts across the company’s value chain and the expansion of the Araucaria Conservation Project, which added more than 1,600 hectares of land in 2025, more than doubling the total area under restoration within a single year.
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