Danish Crown

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 actively working to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions, specifically in scope 1 and 2. Danish Crown has set a goal to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 42 percent from the 2020 baseline by the year 2030. Progress updates on these targets are regularly provided by the company. It is important to note that the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions targets are in line with a 1.5-degree trajectory. In addition to this, the company is also making efforts to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Similar to the scope 1 and 2 emissions, progress reports are shared regarding these scope 3 targets. While the scope 3 emission reduction targets do not cover the entirety of the emissions, they are aligned with the 1.5-degree trajectory as well.

Plastic use and packaging 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. In addition, the company has established targets to reduce virgin polymer production, overall plastic use, and waste. They also aim to increase the proportion of reusable or refillable packaging. The company regularly reports on its progress towards achieving these targets.

Protein diversification
The company discloses quantitative evidence of increasing alternative proteins within its portfolio.

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Child labour
The company requires suppliers to prohibit child labour and verify the age of recruited workers.

Forced labour
The company prohibits the payment of any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, and it does not retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its supply chain.

Act ethically
The company discloses a global tax strategy. Additionally, The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and incorporates related clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. It also identifies bribery and corruption risks by means of an anti-corruption risk assessment process, and has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Moreover, the company specifies that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers in its operations and supply chain, and discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships. Additionally, the company publicly states that workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. Moreover, the company discloses its targets to increase the percentage of women in senior leadership positions to 35%, maintain a 30% gender diversity on its board by 2030, and have at least one woman elected to the AmbA Board by 2025.

Respect human rights
The company has publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Moreover, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers, as well as all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted 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 environmental 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 has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company can 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
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and water; however, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. While the company reports consistently against some targets including climate and water, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set a target aligned with SBTi to reduce scope 3 emissions. However, it is important to note that the target only covers 80 percent of the scope 3 emissions. The company has an opportunity to report progress against these scope 3 targets.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and a time-bound, group-wide target to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Food loss and waste
The company has the chance to disclose its targets for reducing food loss and waste (FLW) and track its progress in achieving them. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to establish a sales-based target to promote the adoption of alternative proteins throughout its product range. Additionally, the company should track and report its progress towards achieving this target.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and report progress against this target. Additionally, the company can also report the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. Furthermore, the company can engage with its suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company currently provides examples of reformulated products. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to adopt a nutrient profiling system and to set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, the company can provide information on the percentage of its food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

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.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses how it supplies slaughter animals directly from the cooperative owners but it could provide more details on how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices. Also, it could demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
For its operations, the company has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach. Moreover, the company could also disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company asserts fair wages, it can strengthen its stance by committing to a living wage with a set timeframe. It could also reveal its approach to determining this with for its operational regions. Moreover, it can enhance expectations from business relationships by mandating a living wage and disclosing its support mechanisms. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment. This could encompass divulging information on the representation of women in the board, and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
While the company conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to reveal that it conducts human rights due diligence, in particular, which includes a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its operations and supply chain. It could further describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Furthermore, while the company states that it mitigates negative impacts on human rights, it could disclose a global system to act on all its salient human rights issues in all its activities.