Guiding Frameworks and Principles

External frameworks and principles

Sustainability covers a wide area of topics and includes the complete value chain of the company. Therefore, Essity rely and is guided by a wide range of external frameworks and global standards when defining its approach to sustainability, including our strategy, governance and targets.

Together with the company’s internal work and dialogue with a number of external stakeholders such as businesses, governments, consumers, NGOs, media, and the academic world, this also forms the basis of the internal frameworks and principles developed.

• UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• UN Global Compact

• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

• ILO Core Conventions Policies and guidelines