Roquette

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Sustainable development strategy
Roquette states that it aims to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its strategy and our Sustainable Development commitments. Its approach is based on four pillars: Innovating, Sourcing, Biorefining, Acting. The company discloses its targets aligned with SDGs for 2025 and reports its progress against them. However, the company does not disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics, nor are the sustainability topics across all three benchmark dimensions, presenting an opportunity for the company going forward.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
Roquette discloses that the Board of Directors has overall responsibility and accountability for the development and implementation of its sustainability strategy, as well as the pursued objectives in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues. However, it does not disclose its highest governance body’s remuneration policy regarding sustainability.

Stakeholder engagement activities
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
Roquette discloses a target of avoiding 1,000,000 tons of CO2 annually. However, it covers only part of its operation. There remains an opportunity for the company to improve by setting up a group-wide target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reporting progress against it.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that improve soil health and increase agrobiodiversity.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that optimise the use of fertilisers and pesticides.

Availability of healthy foods
Roquette discloses several activities that contribute to increasing the production and variety of healthy and nutritious foods, including its “NUTRALYS® pea protein” and its “NUTRIOSE® soluble fiber” solutions and products. However, it does not disclose quantitative evidence to support these activities, presenting an opportunity for the company in future reporting.

Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment to address food insecurity by improving the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Food safety
While the company discloses compliance with the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by disclosing the percentages of its own operations that are certified to a food safety scheme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative.

Child labour
While Roquette commits to prohibiting child labour in its own operations and requires its suppliers to adhere to the same standard, it has an opportunity to disclose a policy requiring its suppliers to have an age-verification system in place.

Living wage
The company does not disclose that it pays its workers a living wage or requires its suppliers to do the same. Neither has it set targets to do so in the future.

Farmer and fisher productivity and resilience
Roquette does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers and/or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

Roquette provides commitments to respecting human rights and for its workers, as well as grievance mechanisms for both its workers and third parties and stakeholders. However, no sufficient commitments to human rights due diligence process and engagement with affected or potentially affected stakeholders were found in the public domain.

Roquette commits to respect the health and safety of its workers, expects its suppliers to do the same and monitors their performance. While disclosing data on, for example, fatalities and severity rates, the company can improve by also disclosing the number and rate of high-consequence injuries and main types of injuries in the workplace. Related to workforce diversity, Roquette has an opportunity to disclose on markers of diversity such as age and ethnicity and data on gender pay gaps. There is an opportunity for Roquette to strengthen its commitments on living wage, as no targets or evidence towards paying a living wage in its own operations and supply chain were found in the public domain. Moreover, no publicly available commitments regulating working hours and ensuring collective bargaining were found.

Roquette addresses all key issues for ethical business conduct through publicly available policies or statements, but there remains an opportunity for these to be strengthened. There is room for Roquette to improve by providing globally publicly personal data protection commitment, and by increasing disclosure on tax, anti-bribery and corruption, and responsible lobbying and political engagement policy.