Our Fundamentals
Our social licence to operate is built on trust and is the foundation of everything we do. We consider all stakeholders in our ecosystem and strive to adopt best practices with regard to the environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. Through our Fundamentals, we will directly contribute towards the following UN SDG targets:
SDG 3.4, SDG 3.9
Good health and well-being
SDG 4.3
Quality education
SDG 6.3, SDG 6.4
Clean water and sanitation
SDG 8.5, SDG 8.8
Decent work and economic growth
SDG 12.2, SDG 12.5, SDG 12.6, SDG 12.7
Responsible consumption and production
SDG 14.1
Life below water
By being a responsible business, we are contributing to a wide range of SDGs, as determined by our specific actions and projects.Factsheets
Sustainability governance fact sheet
Our targets
Safety
Our progress
Living Wage employer globally
Early 2025, we have received external accreditation from the Fair Wage Network that we pay a Living Wage to all our employees globally. While we have been paying all employees globally a Living Wage since 2021, and have been recognised in the UK as a Living Wage employer since 2018, we recognise the importance of having this externally accredited. This achievement exemplifies our core values of Responsible and Together, ensuring that working for Croda allows all employees a life where decent standards of living are met and they can participate fully in society.
We will take a leadership role in life cycle assessment of our ingredients and their impact on the life cycle of our customers’ products.
Full life cycle assessment (LCA) of our ingredients is critical to understand how to reduce our footprint and maximise our positive impact, and enable the transition to sustainable ingredients through customer collaboration and innovation. Examining environmental impacts holistically, beyond carbon, also supports understanding of our impacts and dependencies on nature.
Following the development of our externally verified in-house LCA tool in 2021, in 2024 we completed 4 full ‘cradle-to-grave’ product LCAs, bringing our total to 11. Focus in 2024 was maintained on completing ‘cradle-to-gate’ LCAs requested by our customers, with 50 customer-focused LCAs completed in total. Examining the environmental impacts of key ingredients from our Consumer Care and Life Sciences sectors, these studies allowed us to investigate the downstream impacts and benefits of our ingredients in use, the effect of the transition from petrochemical to bio-based raw materials, plus many more insights.
