Fuji Oil

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and states the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

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. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set time-bound targets to decrease its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Progress towards these scope 1 and 2 targets is regularly reported by the company. Additionally, efforts are made by the company to lower scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to reducing scope 1 and 2 emissions, the company is also dedicated to minimizing its scope 3 GHG emissions. Furthermore, the company has established a time-bound objective to reduce its scope 3 emissions.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains, including RSPO certification for its palm oil. It also discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities which are conversion-free.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company actively demonstrates its commitment to water conservation by reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. Additionally, the company provides transparent reporting on the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations, particularly in areas that are facing water stress. Moreover, the company collaborates with suppliers to collectively reduce water withdrawal.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognised food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company discloses that it has implemented the following workforce nutrition program: nutrition education for employees, breastfeeding support (i.e. health consultation for pregnant women, extended maternity leave and flexible working hours), and healthy food offerings (i.e. offering low-salt and healthy menus in cafeterias).

Child labour
The company works with its supply chain to eliminate child labour. By means of the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS), it carries out remediation measures and training programmes in the cocoa supply chain.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses a target to source 50% of shea kernels direcfly from Tebma-Kandu cooperatives by 2030. It works with 23 women’s cooperatives, sponsors warehouses to procure shea kernels and provides pre-financing without any special conditions or restrictions before the start of the harvest season. Further, it states that it collects feedback from the cooperatives to evaluate the efficiency of the programme.

Forced labour
The company discloses commitments to prohibit the payment of any recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its supply chain. Furthermore, it supports suppliers in addressing freedom of movement and ethical employment by means of its Labour Transformation Programme (LTP). and discloses progress in implementing the latter.

Act ethically
The company discloses a global tax strategy and the executive-level individual who has responsibility for its global tax strategy. Moreover, it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Furthermore, it discloses time-bound targets related to gender equality and women’s empowerment and reports the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a public policy statement pledging to respect human rights and the fundamental rights at work as outlined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). It also details the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts and discloses these findings publicly. Additionally, a case study is provided to describe the company’s response to a salient human rights risk issue.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in environment-related objectives and social issues. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to its 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 explain how it has responded to key issues raised by each stakeholder group and disclose specific outcomes implemented to respond to key issues for each stakeholder group, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion, water and ecosystem conversion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, the company can report progress against these scope 3 targets and has the opportunity to align its scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and reports progress against the target.

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 commits to reducing the amount of trans-fatty acids (TFA) in compliance with the WHO’s recommendations in regions where the TFA intake exceeds 1% of the total daily energy intake by 2023. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall reformulation activities to reduce TFA, as well as sugar and salt across its product portfolio.
The company has an opportunity to establish nutrition criteria and to set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence on healthy food offerings in its own operations and/or in its supply chain and to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

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 progress in relation to the implementation of the CLMRS in the cocoa supply chain. While it prohibits 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 regions or commodities.

Forced labour
While the company guarantees freedom of movement for its employees, it has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job in its operations.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

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 disclose a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption and to describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. While the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could further clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to identify themselves or remain anonymous.

Furthermore, the company could demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasises its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to health and safety of workers by disclosing a policy statement covering its operations and providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology in regions where it operates, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It could also disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board of directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements expecting its suppliers to adhere to the ILO’s fundamental rights at work in accordance with domestic laws. However, there is a room to apply this statement universally across all contexts and locations.

Furthermore, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities within its supply chain. While the company discloses its salient human rights issues, it could also clarify how factors like geography, economy, and social considerations play a role in the identification process.

Additionally, while the company discloses that it conducts human rights risk assessments and its processes to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues, it could describe how the system applies to its supply chain.