Orkla

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with each stakeholder group.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are also aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, the company has also established a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions.

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of processes such as third-party certifications or third-party audits.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.The company also discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

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The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company shows its commitment to improving the nutritional quality of its products by sharing information about its efforts to reduce sugar and salt throughout its portfolio. Moreover, the company has set a target to decrease the sugar and salt content in its portfolio by 15% by 2025.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses it has adopted the Green Keyhole label system.

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

Land rights
The company requires its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data, as well as its global tax strategy. Additionally, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and it incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. It 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. It extends this commitment to its business relationships and reveals how it monitors their health and safety performance.

Additionally, the company states that all full-time employees are paid a living wage and discloses that it uses the Anker model to calculate the living wage for the regions where it operates. Furthermore, the company has a public expectation that its business relationships shall not require workers to exceed 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours, including overtime.

In addition, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, as well as the share of its workforce in each employee category by age group and gender. The company reports a 40% female representation on the board and sets a target to increase female representation by 50% in leadership positions at all levels by 2025.

Respect human rights
The company has a 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 and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability but could further link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Moreover, it has an opportunity to 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, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and 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 by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment but could further disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. While it reports against some targets including nutrition, climate, water and food waste, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as well as its scope 3 emissions. Additionally, the company can report progress against these scope 3 targets. Moreover, the company’s scope 3 emissions targets have the potential to be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets 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
While the company discloses its FLW reduction target(s), it does not measure progress against its target(s). Although the company has set FLW reduction targets, it has an opportunity to align its target(s) with SDG12.3 (50% reduction by 2030).

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 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.

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, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers 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 could provide practical examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has set up initiatives to improve the sustainability of the farms but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

Land rights
The company could disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights as set out in the relevant part(s) of the VGGT’s or the IFC Performance Standards.

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

Act ethically
The company conducts a due diligence process that assesses the risk of becoming involved in breaches of anti-corruption and competitive laws. However, it has the opportunity to elaborate on its process for identifying bribery risks and impacts within its operations. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to create a policy outlining its lobbying and political engagement approach. While the company discloses its political contributions, it could also divulge its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment. Furthermore, although the company is committed to diversity, it has an opportunity to explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose information including the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company discloses that its due diligence involves conducting risk assessment to identify and assess human rights impacts. However, there is an opportunity for the company to elaborate on the process on how it identifies human rights risks and impacts within its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could elaborate on its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.