Our Targets

• The proportion of organic raw materials being used in the company's production is set to be increased from 60 to 80% in the next three years.
• Weleda will be reinforcing biodiversity in its environmental management system. Protection of the variety of species will also be implemented in the company's own auditing scheme for trade partners.
• Reporting within the Annual Report should show progress of existing approaches to sustainability.

Our Motivation

The objectives of the Business and Biodiversity Initiative go very much hand-in-hand with the corporate philosophy of Weleda.

Preserving biological diversity, the sustainable use of resources and a fair distribution of benefits are three of the UN Convention's main points that Weleda recognises and has already been promoting for many years.

Our Focus

Weleda pursues the concept 'Use it or Lose It!' to ensure the protection and a sustainable use of plants.

In close cooperation with scientists, the company has carried out research into several types of medicinal plants, thereby developing measures for collecting concepts, such as the Arnica conservation project of the WWF in Romania. Through controlled sustainable collecting, plants are not endangered. Such an approach actually helps to preserve and strengthen the wild stock.