UN Sustainable Development Goals

Our Contribution 

As a food business, one of the most powerful ways that we can support our local communities is by providing meals. All around the world, we have formed partnerships with local projects, charities and organisations which donate or serve meals to those in need, or pass on our surplus unsold food to the people who need it.

We are committed to procurement with purpose, meaning that we use our buying power to support and promote the fair treatment of people and animals, sustainable resource use, and regenerative agricultural practices. We aim to deliver a global deforestation-free and land conversion-free supply chain strategy and are increasing the volume of sustainable palm oil, soy, beef, and timber and paper materials in the products that we source globally.

Our Contribution

We seek to make it easier for consumers to make choices that are better for their health. Alongside adding more healthy menu items and reformulating recipes with less salt, fat and sugar, we are working with our clients to help consumers make informed and healthier choices. We do this through a number of evidenced behavioural mechanisms, including ‘choice architecture’ approaches to canteen layouts, menu labelling and communications campaigns. We remain committed to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing. 

Our Contribution

We want to empower women to work with Compass Group. For us, this means investing in our female colleagues through development and training schemes, as well as encouraging women-led suppliers. We are also a lead supporter of Women in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure, a cross-industry initiative dedicated to increasing women’s representation in leadership positions.

Our Contribution

Our people are crucial to our business success and our most important asset. We work with local communities across the globe to offer fair and safe employment and promising career opportunities.

To promote work for all, we run diversity and inclusion programmes and action councils and provide skills training to disadvantaged people in our communities. We also work throughout our operations and with our suppliers to address human rights and modern slavery risks, conducting audits and providing training.

Our Contribution

We aim to halve our food waste by 2030 and are actively reducing it in every region. We have made good progress in reducing food waste through education, menu planning and waste management systems.

Digital platforms like Waste Not 2.0 use real-time tracking and dashboard reporting to make our sites more efficient in their production and divert food waste from landfills. We inspire consumers to waste less through communications campaigns and our annual Stop Food Waste Day event. Surplus food is recovered and repurposed by distributing it to food banks and the local community.

We use environmental management systems at client sites, as well as education and toolkits to help reduce waste through prevention, recycling and reuse.

Our Contribution

We are the first international company in the contract catering industry to announce a global commitment to a 2050 net zero emissions economy. We have set ambitious emissions reduction targets over the next decade which have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and a further commitment to be carbon neutral worldwide in our own operations (Scope 1 & 2) by 2030.

Our Contribution

We respect the critical role that packaging plays in food safety and preserving freshness and avoiding food waste. Our priority is to reduce packaging without compromising this and to work with our packaging suppliers to fast-track sustainable alternatives to single-use and fossil fuel-based plastics. Our European operations continue to adopt the very high standards within the EU Plastics Directive, and we often go above regulatory minimum requirements in our wider markets.

In our top 25 markets, 31% of our fish and seafood is sourced sustainably and we have been a strategic partner of the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative since 2021.

Our Contribution

One of the actions of our Planet Promise is to deliver a global deforestation-free and land conversion-free supply chain strategy. We will achieve this through the increased use of sustainable palm oil, soy, beef, and timber and paper materials in the products that we source globally and by reviewing and taking action on additional high-risk commodities.

Our Contribution

We want to help address some of the biggest global challenges today. As a responsible business, we understand the importance of partnering with our clients, suppliers, NGOs and other stakeholders to improve our impact.

We are a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Our Vice President of Nutrition and Wellness for North America co-chairs the Positive Consumption workstream of WBCSD’s Food and Nature, Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) programme which seeks to identify concrete solutions to help deliver healthy and sustainable diets for everyone.

We are one of 25 companies supporting the Terra Carta from The former Prince of Wales’ Sustainable Markets Initiative, and its roadmap to 2030 for businesses to move towards an ambitious and sustainable future.

We continue to be a committed partner of the EAT Forum, a non-profit organisation focused on transformation to protect the planet and its resources.

In 2021, we became a strategic partner of the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative.