Vinamilk

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

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 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of animal welfare third-party certifications or third-party audits.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses quantitative evidence on optimising the use of fertilisers in its production and/or sourcing practices.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It also 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.

Food safety
The company discloses that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognized food safety scheme. Additionally, it provides evidence that 88% of its raw material suppliers are also certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses that it is committed to help farmers improve their lives through a competitive procurement policy, support through financial solutions and high-tech agriculture. Additionally, it discloses that it is sourcing an increasing amount of milk directly from farmers. Furthermore, it is committed to purchasing all fresh milk at stable and competitive prices, and making contracts with clear and transparent terms.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement wherein it pledges to uphold the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, the company divulges the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. It further reveals the distribution of its workforce across employee categories based on age groups and gender. Moreover, the company reports a 30% representation of women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights.

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 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 an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
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. Furthermore, it could report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company can take advantage of an opportunity to decrease its scope 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. The company 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 them. Additionally, the company can align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims to achieve a 50% reduction in FLW by 2030.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as report progress in achieving this target.

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.

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 demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

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.

Responsible marketing
The company can provide evidence of marketing activities to promote heathier and more nutritious food options (in accordance with a government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines). Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose a responsible marketing policy specifically tailored to children that is aligned with international codes and guidelines and applicable across all media channels.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company 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.

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 has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
While the company operates a compliance committee for investigating various cases including corruption, there is an opportunity to unveil a dedicated process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts. The company could also incorporate anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses within contracts with business relationships. Additionally, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify that the mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to either reveal their identity or remain anonymous.

Moreover, the company could adopt a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. It could disclose a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions, and divulge its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that mandates suppliers to prioritize the health and safety of their workers. It could also include the company’s monitoring process for supplier compliance.

Furthermore, although the company mentions a salary range system that ensures compliance with labor laws, it could commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for its operational regions and detail efforts to assist suppliers in meeting this standard.

Moreover, while the company emphasizes equal opportunities, it has a potential to explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Related time-bound targets could be disclosed alongside information such as the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men .

Respect human rights
While the company commits to respecting specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to include all the ILO fundamental rights at work using a stronger language within a formal policy document. This commitment could be extended to encompass suppliers as well.

Furthermore, although the company mentions a materiality survey to identify main risks to business, it could elaborate on the process it employs to particularly identify human rights risks and impacts across its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.