Ecosystem conversion and restoration
JDE Peet does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. While it discloses some evidence of addressing conversion, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices. While the company has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it does not provide details of a plan which includes specific actions for engaging suppliers, developing alternative land-use practices, and investing in sustainable sourcing, as well as dedicated resources and KPIs for monitoring progress.
Finally, JDE Peet 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.
GHG emissions
JDE Peet discloses that it has reduced its scope 3 GHG emission by 1% against the 2020 baseline. However, the company indicates quantitative increase of scope 3 emissions in 2022 from 2021. Crucially, JDE Peet should reduce its scope 3 emissions and its targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
JDE Peet has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.
Invasive species
JDE Peet has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
Key areas and species
While JDE Peet has collaborated with the Wildlife Conservation Society to restore vital habitats and is engaged with the SBTN corporate program to shape nature reporting standards, it still has an opportunity to detail species adjacent to its operations. Furthermore, insights into supplier locations near biodiversity-rich areas, species populations near supplier sites, and the conservation status of species within company locales would further enhance transparency.
Resource exploitation and circularity performance
JDE Peet has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.
Solid and air pollution
JDE Peet should work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste. It has an opportunity to report on the amount of plastic waste generated and the proportions directed from or to disposal. The company could also report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
Water
JDE Peet has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. While the company collects wastewater quality metrics, it does not appear to be disclosing them in the public. JDE Peet hasn’t disclosed targets to diminish water pollution, nor its processes for rolling out preventive and corrective strategies for particular risks related to the right to water and sanitation within its operations.
