Premier Foods receives new SBTi validation for net zero targets

Premier Foods has announced that its near-term, long-term and net-zero decarbonisation targets have now been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

These targets adopt the new Forestry, Land use and Agriculture (FLAG) standards from the SBTi. Premier Foods says this demonstrates the importance they continue to place on science-driven measurement and detailed disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions to drive actions to better address global climate change. 

Nick Brown, director of ESG at Premier Foods, said: “The reassurance and credibility of this scheme has provided a mobilising force for our teams and has helped us to reduce our scope 1 & 2 (market based) emissions by 30% since 2020 and our scope 3 emissions by 25% over the same period.“ 

The new long-term targets for scopes 1, 2 and 3 are all aligned with the ambition to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. The detailed targets can be found at https://www.premierfoods.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PREMIE1.pdf.