FrieslandCampina

Lobbying
FrieslandCampina discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

Stakeholder engagement
FrieslandCampina discloses how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the specific outcomes of its stakeholder engagement. Moreover, its stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, nutrition, and social areas.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
FrieslandCampina 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. Also, it has group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, the company provides evidence of linking performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
FrieslandCampina has a commitment to ensure zero conversion.

GHG emissions
FrieslandCampina has set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Its targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
FrieslandCampina reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. It also has policies and partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
FrieslandCampina discloses a public commitment to protect personal data, a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. It also has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Furthermore, the company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy statement, specifies that it does not make political contributions and discloses that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
FrieslandCampina has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers and expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers, and discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships. The company also discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Respect human rights
FrieslandCampina has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and discloses the results of its human rights risk assessments. It also discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities and indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company reports consistently against some targets including climate, nutrition, and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains, and it does not have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and it does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund and Rabobank to develop a biodiversity monitoring system that measures the impact on biodiversity at individual farms and compensates member dairy farmers for their efforts, it has an opportunity to assess and disclose the impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and upstream business relationships. The company also has the opportunity to assess and disclose its dependencies on nature within its operations and its upstream relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
While the company is in the process of reporting the presence of IUCN Red List species and national conservation species near its production sites, and collaborates with Vogelbescherming Nederland to reward farmers for meadow bird protection, there remain areas for increased transparency. The company also has yet to provide specifics on species in or near its own locations, details on its operations and those of its suppliers adjacent to key biodiversity areas, or the conservation status of species found in proximity to its sites based on national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. It has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and to 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. It could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights and expecting its suppliers to respect specific workers’ right, but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. It could also describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and supply chain. The company could also describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues and disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.