Ahold Delhaize’s Journey to Resilient Climate Risk Management

For the food and beverage sector, navigating the complex realities of climate change requires more than just high-level commitments. Discover how Ahold Delhaize is advancing their climate risk capabilities, as highlighted in their 2025 Annual Report.

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Ahold Delhaize Annual Report

For a global food retail leader like Ahold Delhaize, understanding the vulnerabilities within their operations and extensive supply chain is critical to building business resilience and long-term growth.

As part of their ongoing climate journey, Ahold Delhaize partnered with Risilience to deepen their understanding of physical and transition risks, and embed data-driven climate intelligence directly into their wider business strategy.

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Enhancing Customized Climate Risk Assessments

To understand and manage climate exposure, organizations must look beyond broad global trends and analyze risks at the facility level. By leveraging comprehensive data and scenario modeling, Ahold Delhaize has significantly upgraded their ability to assess risks across their entire value chain.

“During 2025, we continued to enhance our customized climate risk assessment capabilities, utilizing detailed physical climate data, financial information and scenario analysis for the execution of climate-risk assessments on our own operations at a facility level, our value chain, and our most significant transition risks.”
— Ahold Delhaize Annual Report 2025 (p. 74)

Analyzing Physical Risks in the Supply Chain

For global retailers, supply chain disruption represents the most significant financial vulnerability to climate-related risks. Temperature extremes and changing precipitation patterns amplified by weather events (including El Niño) can directly impact raw material availability. In 2025, Ahold Delhaize took steps to map these physical risks to safeguard their sourcing strategies.

“In 2025, we conducted the first analysis of the physical risks from climate change in our supply chain. We leveraged the raw materials model to analyze which raw materials may be at supply risk due to temperature and precipitation change.”
— Ahold Delhaize Annual Report 2025 (p. 96)

Translating Climate Risk into Financial Impact

The ultimate goal of climate scenario modeling is to translate environmental data into business and financial realities. By quantifying the potential financial impacts of climate change, Ahold Delhaize can move beyond compliance and actively integrate climate intelligence into their enterprise risk management.

“Through scenario modeling we’ve been able to both understand the potential financial impacts of climate change on our business and work to embed this understanding into our wider risk management processes.”
— Ahold Delhaize Annual Report 2025 (p. 104)

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