Savencia

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses some trade associations it is a member of. However, it has an opportunity to disclose a full list of trade associations of which it is a member for all jurisdictions in which it operates.

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 reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

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

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

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses the percentage of products and markets for which it has provided nutrition information on key relevant nutrients and portion- or serving-based information.

Child labour
The company acknowledges that child labor is a significant risk faced by its cocoa subsidiaries. In response, it has taken steps to establish agreements aimed at reducing child labor.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company supports farmers in France by providing them with tangible investments such as machinery and livestock. Also, it has a programme to support young farmers with financial aid and a long-term contractual commitments, along with training on topics the farmer can choose. In addition, its subsidiary Valrhona aims to source 100% of its cocoa beans from long-term partnerships and supports the development of producer organisations. Also, its subsidiaries Révillon, la Maison du Chocolat and De Neuville offer financing to cocoa farmers to help them develop professional skills and diversify their income.

Act ethically
The company identifies bribery and corruption risks by means of a framework of France’s so-called “Sapin II” law. Additionally, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses its target to achieve 50% women among managers by 2025.

Respect human rights
The company describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and supply chain. Additionally, it describes its process for assessing its human rights risks and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Furthermore, the company has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and discloses its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company states it has a CRS committee. However, it has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by assigning decision-making and oversight for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its 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 how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including social inclusion, 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 reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, they can disclose a time-bound target for reducing these emissions and report their progress against these targets. The company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions targets can also be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, the company can disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress against these targets. Lastly, the company’s scope 3 emissions targets can 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 discloses some evidence of addressing conversion. However, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices. The company has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

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.

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 provides examples of reformulated products. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of positive nutrients in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to establish nutrition criteria and to set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to adopt front-of-pack labels or any other consumer- facing nutrition labels that support consumers with making healthier food choices. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

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, the company can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose child labour requirements in its contractual agreement with suppliers as a prohibition of child labour and the use of an age-verification system for the workers recruited. The company has an opportunity to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

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.

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
While the company prohibits bribery and corruption, it has an opportunity to formalise this commitment in a public policy document and it could also include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach and disclose a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions. Moreover, the company could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company states that it seeks to promote health and safety at work. However, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to show a commitment to health and safety and could formalise this commitment in a public policy document. Additionally, the company could disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to do the latter.
Furthermore, while it upholds worker rights, and its subsidiaries comply with applicable labour laws, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. The company could also disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.
Moreover, while the company has a statement on gender equality and women’s empowerment, it has an opportunity to translate the latter in a public policy document. Lastly, the company could disclose that it has at least 30% women on the highest governing body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO’s fundamental rights at work but has an opportunity to place them in a formal policy document. Additionally, the company could disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respect the human rights that the ILO has declared to be fundamental rights at work.