MISS Dove Alisi Vucago believes the brand she represents in this year’s Vodafone Hibiscus Festival blends well with the event theme — “Climate Change: Telling Your Own Narrative”.

The 21-year-old journalist who hails from Serua says the Conference of Parties (COP23) leadership spearheaded by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama further strengthens the theme adopted by the carnival organising committee.

“Dove is a product of Unilever International — a company which is heavily investing and fully dedicated towards the protection of our fragile environment,” Miss Dove Alisi Vucago says.

“While mother nature has given us everything we need, it is our duty as a responsible citizen to do everything possible to protect our precious environment,” Miss Vucago adds.

She believes climate change which affects millions of people across the globe is a result of years of neglect and irresponsible behaviour both by individuals and corporations which need to immediately change the way they operate.

“This is where, Unilever — one of the largest consumer goods company in the world with leading brands such as Dove is playing a lead role in sustainable development.” Unilever is driving positive change and sustainable growth through their business, brands and partners – from building better self-esteem for girls and young women through the Dove brand, to bringing carbon positive ambition to life and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

To help tackle climate change, Unilever has set a bold new ambition to be carbon positive in its operations by 2030.

Growing water scarcity is a huge risk to Unilever’s future growth — as well as a business opportunity to better meet people’s needs.

Unilever purchases over two-million tonnes of packaging a year. Increasing resource scarcity means it is more urgent than ever to be efficient with packaging and find solutions to deal with ‘post-consumer’ waste.

The company strongly believes that growing for the future – sustainable sourcing has never been more important than now.

“We rely on nature for many of the ingredients and raw materials that make up our products. We are working in partnership with others to explore how natural capital can be better integrated into business decision-making,” the company states on its official website.