Mondelēz International has released its 2025 sustainability progress report, Snacking Made Right, highlighting important achievements across its sustainable ingredient sourcing, climate action, and packaging innovation programs.

Transforming the cocoa supply chain

In 2025, the company achieved several milestones in scaling its sustainable cocoa sourcing program, Cocoa Life, including:

• Full coverage: The program now covers approximately 100% of the cocoa volume sourced for the company's chocolate business.
• Farmer impact: Mondelēz now works alongside more than 257,000 registered Cocoa Life farmers to build more profitable businesses and resilient communities.
• Environmental protection: The initiative continues to focus on protecting and restoring forests while sourcing more sustainable cocoa.

Mondelēz is also a founding member of the TogetherCocoa Foundation, collaborating with governments and other companies to help accelerate systemic change. 

Three-pillar strategy for the future of cocoa

With the intention of further modernizing the cocoa sector and strengthening resilience, the company is pursuing an enhanced enterprise-wide sourcing strategy for cocoa, including:

• Diversification and innovation: Securing high-quality cocoa through geographic flexibility, large-scale farming, and partnerships with food-tech start-ups to develop ingredients such as lab-grown cocoa.
• Predictive technology: Investments in enhanced crop forecasting processes designed to improve supply accuracy.
• Modernized engagement: Updating smallholder programs to align with evolving regulatory landscapes and consumer expectations. 

Scaling innovation and circularity 

Mondelēz continues to reduce its environmental footprint through local sustainability initiatives and global partnerships:

• Climate: Approximately 100% cocoa volume for chocolate is now sourced through Cocoa Life. This contributes to the company’s progress against a 2030 target to reduce end-to-end Co2e emissions by 35% (base 2018). The company also exceeded a target of 10% reduction in absolute water usage in priority sites by 2025, realizing an approximately 18% reduction vs. 2018 baseline.
• More Sustainable Packaging: The company introduced recycled content packaging for Cadbury in Australia as part of its commitment to a more circular economy for plastic. This contributes to progress achieved against the company’s 2030 recycled plastic content target.
• Collaborative Impact Investing: Mondelēz joined The 100+ Accelerator, an initiative providing access to eco-entrepreneurs to further scale systemic environmental solutions. 

"Focus, innovation, and impact at scale have always been at the heart of our sustainability work," says Christine Montenegro McGrath, SVP chief impact and sustainability officer, Mondelēz International. “Ever humble, but determined, we remain focused on contributing to the future of more sustainable snacking and delivering sustainable business growth.”

“Our path forward is grounded in long-term, sustainable business growth—shaping, creating, and accelerating the future of snacking for generations of consumers to come,” says Dirk Van de Put, chair and CEO, Mondelēz International. “We remain focused on innovating with excellence, implementing long-term structural actions intended to enhance business resilience, embedding sustainability into our everyday work, and delivering long-term value for our many stakeholders.”

Mondelēz International is on the current Candy Industry “Global Top 100 Candy Companies” list, as well as the current Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery “Top 50 Snack & Bakery Companies” list.

Click here to view the current “Global Top 100” rankings, and click here to view the current “Top 50” rankings.