Greenyard

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member. It has an opportunity to provide a full list for all jurisdictions where it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

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 commits to cutting its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by the end of 2025, relative to the 2020 baseline, and reports progress on the target. Moreover, the latter aligns with a 1.5-degree climate trajectory.

Food loss and waste
The company has set FLW reduction targets that are aligned with SDG 12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Water withdrawal
The company actively showcases its commitment to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. Additionally, the company diligently reports the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in areas that are experiencing high water stress.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses an increase in the number of reformulated products with reduced salt or sugar levels compared to 2021/2022 in its prepared foods division. Additionally, as a producer and distributor of fresh produce, it actively supports the availability of healthy foods.

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. Furthermore, the company discloses that it requires all growers to adopt good agricultural practices and obtain certifications, such as GlobalGAP.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company demonstrates that it has a long tradition of working closely with and contracting growers and producer organisations throughout its divisions and production regions. Also, it describes how it has supported producer groups to help smallholder farmers further develop their organic production for international markets, improve quality and production standards and get ready for certification.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Also, it specifies that it does not make political contributions and discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Concerning health and safety, 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.
In terms of gender equality, it discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and has 33.33% women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and describes the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain. Also, it indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

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 nature-related objectives 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 clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it 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 an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, ecosystem conversion and water; however, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, 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 can take steps to lower its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, including setting related time-bound targets. Furthermore, it has the potential to align its Scope 3 emission targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory and report its progress towards achieving these goals.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimise the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Food loss and waste
The company currently discloses its FLW reduction targets, but it does not measure and track progress towards these targets. However, there is an opportunity for the company to enhance its efforts by aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction in food loss and waste by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against the targets.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to engage with suppliers and reduce water withdrawal. Additionally, the company has the chance to disclose a time-bound target, outlining its commitment to reducing water withdrawal across its own operations. It is also important for the company to report progress made towards achieving this target.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has the opportunity to implement commercial activities aimed at improving the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods, particularly for vulnerable groups. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to set targets for enhancing the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods for vulnerable groups through its commercial activities.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to use nutrition criteria to guide its product reformulation and to set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious products, in alignment with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

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 describe how it assesses living income gaps for some commodities and regions.

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.

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.

Act ethically
In terms of bribery and corruption, the company could describe the process for identifying those risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. While the company has a mechanism to raise concerns, it could clearly disclose if this mechanism is to raise bribery and corruption concerns and is accessible to all stakeholders.

Concerning lobbying and political engagement, while the company outlines its lobbying approach in a policy, it has an opportunity to outline its political engagement approach in a policy. Furthermore, the company discloses some information regarding its lobbying expenditures. However, it has an opportunity to disclose the expenditures in all locations where it carries out lobbying activities or specify it only does so in specific countries or regions. Lastly, it could disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

Additionally, while the company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to pay a minimum living wage, it has an opportunity to describe if a minimum living wage is enough to maintain a decent standard of living for employees of its business relationships and their family and how it works to support the payment.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment along with time-bound targets. It could further disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment although it assesses modern slavery risks in its supply chain. Also, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.