The food and beverage giant announced this at the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference, pledging to implement regenerative measures that would benefit the local food supply chain and natural solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, plans to plant 10 million trees in the country by 2025.

“[The aim is to] scale up regenerative agriculture and deploy natural climate solutions to absorb greenhouse gases [to] contribute to Nestle’s overall net zero target by 2050,”​ Nestle Executive Vice President, Head of Operations, Head of Operations Magdi Batato said.

“This [focus on] Australia is an important step forward in our road to net zero [as] beyond the positive impact on our carbon footprint, [it] will protect natural resources, accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture and food systems as well as provide local communities with economic benefits.”​

Nestle Oceania CEO Sandra Martinez added that the projects in Australia will involve a partnership between Nestle and various environmental organisations including Greening Australia, Canopy and One Tree Planted.

“Our long-term commitment is about more than just planting trees – [for instance], the reforestation program works to conserve local biodiversity, and advance regenerative food and farming systems which will deliver environmental and economic benefits to communities,”​ she told FoodNavigator-Asia​.

“Climate change is possibly everyone’s greatest challenge – and a significant risk to the future of our business [so] Nestle Australia is thrilled that we will be part of this project.​

“Planting trees in areas where we source our ingredients helps protect and restore food systems. It helps our supply chain and the local communities that grow our ingredients to be more resilient."​

The first step in this project will be to establish the planting of the 10 million trees across t