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Sustainable Supply Chain Leadership
Advancing a more transparent, resilient and responsible supply chain to 2030
At Univar Solutions, we see sustainable supply chain leadership as a business imperative and a source of long-term value. As a global distributor operating across complex value chains, we are evolving our approach from foundational supplier compliance toward deeper collaboration, better data, and stronger integration of sustainability into sourcing and commercial decision-making.
Our focus to 2030 is to strengthen transparency, raise expectations, and work with suppliers and partners to reduce risk, improve performance, and support progress on priority issues such as ethics, human rights, health and safety, and supply chain emissions.
Dr. Liam McCarroll
Senior Director of Global Sustainability & Social Impact
“Our ambition is to lead with a supply chain approach that is practical, transparent and collaborative. We are building on strong foundations to 2030 by strengthening supplier expectations, improving the quality of sustainability data, and working with partners to drive better outcomes across our value chain.”
How we are evolving our approach
We have already established key building blocks, including issuing our Supplier Code of Conduct to targeted suppliers and scaling supplier sustainability assessments. Looking ahead to 2030, we are evolving from a primarily compliance-led model to a broader supply chain leadership approach focused on insight, engagement and measurable improvement.
Our strategic priorities include:
Data, transparency and insight
- Expanding supplier sustainability assessment and due diligence capabilities to improve visibility of environmental, social and governance performance across our supply base
- Improving decision-useful data to support risk management, supplier engagement and progress on supply chain emissions reduction
Stronger standards and integration
- Embedding sustainability expectations into supplier onboarding, qualification and ongoing management processes
- Maintaining clear minimum expectations through our Supplier Code of Conduct and targeted risk-based due diligence
- Aligning supply chain practices with evolving customer expectations, regulatory developments and enterprise sustainability priorities
Partnership and capability building
- Working with suppliers and industry partners to support performance improvement and more consistent approaches to sustainability in the chemical value chain
- Building internal knowledge and tools that help our teams make sustainability part of everyday sourcing and commercial conversations
Progress to date and the road to 2030
Our global supply chain spans multiple regions, feedstocks and production models, and depends on the people who produce, handle and move materials every day. That is why our approach considers not only environmental impacts, but also ethics, labor and human rights, health and safety, and the resilience of the systems that support our customers and suppliers.
We are building on measurable progress already made and using it as a platform for the next phase of sustainable supply chain leadership.
- Maintaining our requirements for all suppliers to acknowledge our Supplier Code of Conduct.
- Assessed >80 percent of product supplier spend through the EcoVadis platform by the end of 2025
- Established a 2030 Scope 3 emissions intensity reduction goal and launched EcoScope, our supplier collaboration program focused on reducing supply chain emissions intensity
- Joined Together for Sustainability to support stronger data sharing, more aligned methodologies and collective progress across the chemical value chain
Our approach to 2030
Our next chapter is about moving beyond visibility alone and using better information, stronger partnerships and clearer accountability to drive outcomes. We are prioritizing the areas where we can have the greatest influence: improving supplier transparency, supporting more consistent standards, and integrating sustainability considerations more deeply into the way we operate and grow.
This includes strengthening the role of supplier assessments and due diligence, using industry collaboration to improve comparability and actionability of data, and working with suppliers on practical improvement opportunities over time. It also means supporting our broader climate ambition by helping enable progress on Scope 3 emissions intensity reduction across our value chain by 2030.
As expectations continue to evolve, we will keep adapting our approach to remain practical, risk-based and focused on value creation—for our customers, our suppliers, our business and the communities connected to our supply chain.
