Water quality and availability are crucial to the feeding a growing population. The UN World Water Development Report estimates global water demand is set to exceed supply by an estimated 40% by 2030. The world’s agricultural supply chains and food production systems face real challenges from the growing risk of water stress driven by climate change.
Following the acquisition of CP Kelco in November 2024, we focused on integrating their sustainability programs including conducting a comprehensive review of water use and assessing the water and nature-related risks, opportunities and footprint of the combined business’s sites and key supply chains. Our assessment identified eight locations that with high risk of being impacted by water stress in the future. Together these eight sites account for 76% of Tate & Lyle’s water usage. As a result, we updated our water target to prioritize investment and action in these locations to deliver the greatest impact while minimizing the potential impact of water-related risks.
Improving water stewardship
Tate & Lyle are building more sustainable operations through ambitious commitments and programs to improve water stewardship at our high water-risk sites, including:
- Reduce water use intensity by 15% by 31 March 2034, measured against a baseline from the year ended 31 March 2024.
- Pursue Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification to further reduce water-related risks and support basin-level collective action by 2034.
✓ 6% increase in water use intensity in our operations (target: 15% reduction in water use intensity by 2030). 1
1 Baseline of 31 December 2019.
Water stewardship in action
