Roquette

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

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has a target to reduce 25% of its greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1 and 2) between 2021 and 2030.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data. Moreover, it reveals a global tax strategy, with an executive level individual having responsibility for the strategy. Additionally, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses into its contracts with direct business relationships. The company also discloses its grievance mechanism, enabling stakeholders to to raise concerns and complaints related to bribery and corruption. Furthermore, the company explicitly states that it refrains from making political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement which affirms its commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers, with a corresponding expectation for its business relationships to share this commitment. The company also details its approach to monitoring the performance of these business relationships. Additionally, the company provides information on the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, and reports that it has 41.66% women on the board. Moreover, it sets a clear goal of increasing the representation of women in its workforce to 25% 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. 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, 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 and to describe its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, including frequencies and channels, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment. However, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Furthermore, while the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to report progress against its scope 1 and 2 targets, which can be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. While the company discloses an overall decrease in its scope 1 and 2 emissions related to plant-based raw materials, there is no evidence found regarding the disclosure of absolute quantitative reductions for these emissions. The company also has the opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and disclose a time-bound target for such reductions. Progress against the scope 3 targets can also be reported, with the potential for aligning these targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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.

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 a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
While the company discloses that 98% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme, it has an opportunity to extend the certifications to 100% of its own operations. Additionally, the company can disclose the percentage of food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

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 set up initiatives to improve the productivity and sustainability of the farms but it could to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess 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.

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 detail its process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Additionally, although the company has a publicly available policy statement outlining its stance on personal political activity and political funding and services, it could further disclose its lobbying approach. Moreover, enhancing transparency could involve the company disclosing its spending on lobbying efforts.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it adheres to minimum wage standards for its employees and establishes expectations for wage paid by its suppliers, there is a potential for it to enhance its commitment by setting a clear time-bound target for paying a living wage, extending this requirement to suppliers, and outlining the support it will offer to suppliers in achieving this goal. The company could also explain how it calculates a living wage for the regions where it operates.

Additionally, while the company demonstrates a commitment to diversity, there is an opportunity for it to explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. To further transparency, the company could disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
Although the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to explicitly mention all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to reveal the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts that pertain to both its operations and its supply chain. It could also elaborate on the process used to assess and identify the human rights issues it deems salient. Moreover, the company has the potential to disclose a global system aimed at addressing, preventing and mitigating its identified salient human rights issues.