FMCG major Hindustan Unilever (HUL) today said it has fixed a target of 25 per cent reduction in carbon footprint by 2012.

"We are very committed towards environment sustainability. HUL and its parent company Unilever both have fixed a target of 25 per cent reduction in carbon footprint, taking 2004 as the base level by 2012," HUL CEO Nitin Paranjpe told reporters on the sidelines of India Economic Summit.

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Two-third of power plants in India are zero affluent discharge and four of them are already water positive (recharging more water than one can use).

The company has already prepared a roadmap in this direction for 2015, Paranjpe said while declining to comment further.

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