Barilla

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company is committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within a specific timeframe. Additionally, the company intends to reduce 26% of its relevant scope 3 emissions per tonne of finished product compared to 2017, although it could set targets that are not intensity-based.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company is committed to reducing plastic use and transitioning to sustainable packaging. It demonstrates this commitment through its policies and by participating in activities focused on plastic use reduction. Additionally, the company provides quantitative data regarding its efforts to decrease plastic usage and increase the use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company provides qualitative evidence on improving soil health and increase agrobiodiversity by undertaking several projects on regenerative agriculture. These includes among other techniques cover cropping and reduced tillage, both of which are linked to higher soil health.

Water withdrawal
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company reports on its reformulation efforts, including the number of products reformulated in 2021 and the percentage of products that adhere to its nutritional guidelines.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses that one of its brands has adopted the Nutri-score front-of-pack labelling system in France.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. In addition, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses multiple data points related to work-related injuries. Furthermore, the company publicly shares the percentage of women in each employee category within its total direct operations workforce. Also, it is committed to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that commits it to respecting human rights and the ILO core labor rights. Additionally, the company expects its suppliers to adhere to the ILO core labor rights, as stated in their publicly available policy statement. Furthermore, the company has established a human rights grievance mechanism, accessible to all workers, as well as external stakeholders who may be negatively affected by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses some of its trade associations, however, it could disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all jurisdictions in which it operates. Also, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it could report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability targets including climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain such as nutrition and social inclusion. Furthermore, it could report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the chance to report progress on its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets. The company discloses that its current emission targets are in line with a 2-degree trajectory but it has an opportunity to improve its performance by aligning them with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, the company can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to showcase quantitative evidence of reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. Additionally, it can disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in these operations, and report progress towards this target. The company mentions implementing water resources, recycling, and reusing practices in production processes. However, there is no evidence to suggest that the company engages with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to adopt a nutrient profiling system that aligns with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and to set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious products.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to provide evidence of marketing activities to promote heathier and more nutritious food options (in accordance with a government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines). Additionally, the company has a chance to disclose a responsible marketing policy specifically designed for children. This policy should be aligned with international codes and guidelines and applicable across all media channels.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Act ethically
The company has a process for identifying bribery and corruption but could disclose details of this process. Additionally, the company has the chance to incorporate anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. Additionally, the company could transparently disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, stating it does not make political contributions. While the company does disclose some details about its lobbying expenditures, it has the opportunity to provide this information for all locations where it engages in lobbying activities or specify it only does so in specific countries or regions. Lastly, the company could also reveal that it requires third-party lobbyists to adhere to its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
Although the company claims to prioritize the health and safety of its workers, it should solidify this commitment by creating a public policy document. Additionally, the company should ensure that its business relationships adhere to the same standards of worker health and safety by translating its statements into a policy commitment. It could also demonstrate how it monitors its suppliers’ performance to health and safety standards. The company has the chance to disclose a deadline for achieving or confirmation of having achieved payment of a living wage to all workers. In addition, it could detail how it determines a living wage for the regions it operates in and how it encourages its suppliers to pay a living wage. Furthermore, the company could make its gender equality and women’s empowerment target time-bound. It could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
While the company has conducted an ERM project, which carries out analysis for the identification and assessment of potential risks including human rights, it has an opportunity to disclose the process it uses to identify human rights risks and impacts in both its operations and supply chain. Furthermore, the company has the possibility to describe its method for determining its most salient human rights issues, considering factors like geographical, economic, and social aspects. Lastly, it has the chance to disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues, aiming to prevent, lessen, or remedy them.