{"id":15541,"date":"2023-04-04T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/?p=15541"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:24:13","slug":"ep-115-forces-of-nature-ft-eric-soubeiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/ep-115-forces-of-nature-ft-eric-soubeiran\/","title":{"rendered":"ep.115: FORCES OF NATURE -ft. Eric Soubeiran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FORCES-OF-NATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A talkshow miniseries featuring dynamic leaders from across food and environmental movements.<\/em> Tune-in for a healthy dose of optimism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FORCES OF NATURE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

talk show series -ft. leaders from food & climate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric Soubeiran<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director of Climate and Nature Fund <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong>Eric Soubeiran \u00b7 Forging a Strong Value Chain \u00b7 episode 115<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A PERPETUAL DANCE BETWEEN <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

VALUE CREATION AND A SUPPLY CHAIN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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With over two decades of international work experience in sustainability, general management, sourcing, and M&A, Eric Soubeiran is a leading force behind Unilever’s massive value chain. In his role as the VP Business Operation Sustainability, Eric manages the environmental impact of one of the largest CPGs companies in the world. Soubeiran is also the Executive Director of the \u20ac 1 billion Climate and Nature investment fund that Unilever launched to take decisive action, and support the collective efforts of their 400 in-house brands seeking to protect the health of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric focuses on building multi-stakeholder environments and uses his convening capacity to bring key stakeholders together to drive transformation and establish impact at scale. Leadership skills that he’s picked up throughout the years from mentors like Alan Jope and Emmanuel Faber. Prior to Unilever, Soubeiran was Chief Sustainability Officer and VP of Nature and water cycle at Danone, and he’s currently a non-executive director of the Carbon Trust and The Gold Standard Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Listen-in to episode #115 to hear how one of the biggest CPG \/ retail food companies in the world is taking to help save the planet, and meet contemporary consumer demands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WATCH<\/strong>: the live recorded video conversation w\/ Eric Soubeiran on SMs ep. 115<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A BILLION EURO CLIMATE & NATURE FUND<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To accelerate climate action, Unilever\u2019s brands will collectively invest \u20ac1 billion in a dedicated Climate & Nature Fund. These resources will be allocated over the next ten years to take meaningful and decisive action, with projects (likely) to include landscape restoration, reforestation, carbon sequestration, wildlife protection and water preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soubeiran explains the potential impact of Unilever’s Climate & Nature fund in this way, “The climate & nature fund is to transform some of the key ingredients that we use in our products to a more sustainable manner. The objective is to fulfill the promise that the brands have to the world. We want to create a movement around this fund so that we’re attracting the right partners along the journey.”  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Unilever has a very large value chain. We buy about \u20ac35 billion of stuff a year, and therefore we believe that within some of the most critical areas that we can play the role of a catalyst; where 1+1 can equal more than two.”<\/em><\/p>– Eric Soubeiran, Unilever Climate & Nature Fund ED<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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