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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 reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

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

Water withdrawal
The company actively works to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations. It has set a specific target to achieve this reduction within a specific timeframe, and regularly reports on its progress towards this target.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Child labour
The company works with its supply chain to eliminate child labour by utilizing Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS) and training smallholder farmers on child labour issues within its direct supply chain in cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company is developing a farmer segmentation model in order to provide customised services to farmers. It is developing its programs based on insights from a Service Delivery Model Assessment conducted by IDF. Further, based on the analysis, it is developing a financing model to support farmers with financial products.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to respecting the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, it states that it pays fair living wages and benefits to its employees. Moreover, it discloses the proportion of women in its workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Furthermore, it engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management. 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 report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on sustainability-related issues, and whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

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
The company discloses certain sustainability objectives/targets, including those related to climate, water, and ecosystem conversion. However, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. While it reports on some of its targets, including those related to ecosystem conversion, it could report consistently across all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company can take advantage of an opportunity to decrease its scope 1,2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, it has the opportunity to set time-bound reduction targets for scope 1,2 and 3 emissions in alignment with a 1.5-degree trajectory and report progress against these targets.

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 its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. It could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, it can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction 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 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 report the amount of water it withdraws for its operations in water-stressed areas. Additionally, it has the chance to collaborate with suppliers to decrease water withdrawal.

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

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.

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

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to showcase examples of remediation programs when instances of child labour are discovered within its operations. It discloses its commitment to complying with child labour laws, with a particular emphasis on the cocoa and coffee supply chain. However, it could include child labour requirements, such as a ban on the use of child labour and the verification of workers’ ages.
In terms of its Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS), the company discloses the coverage in 2022. However, there is an opportunity to provide an analysis of progressive trends in eradicating child labour from its supply chain.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Act ethically
While the company aligns with specific regulations on bribery and corruption, it has an opportunity to disclose a general commitment prohibiting such practices, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Additionally, it could describe the process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities within its operations. Furthermore, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to report anonymously or reveal their identity.

Moreover, the company has the opportunity to create a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specify that it does not make political contributions, and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement expecting its suppliers to prioritize worker health and safety. Additionally, while the company conducts root-cause analysis for all declared incident and routine safety audits, it can also reveal its mechanism for monitoring supplier health and safety performance.

Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Although it has partnered with the Sustainable Trade Initiative to assess farmers’ living income gap, it can also describe how it supports the payment of a living wage by its other business relationships.

Moreover, while the company has initiatives related to women’s empowerment, there is an opportunity for the company to explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense. It could disclose time-bound targets and report data, including the ratio of women’s basic salary and remuneration to men’s.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work within its operations and supply chain. While the company states that it has implemented a process to identify, prevent and mitigate adverse impacts on human rights, it could elaborate on this process of identifying risks and impacts within its own operations and supply chain. It could further describe its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues and it has an opportunity to disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.