Nomad Foods

Stakeholder engagement
Nomad Foods discloses the channels it uses to engage with each stakeholder group. Moreover, its stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, nutrition, and social areas.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Nomad Foods 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 and reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Nomad Foods discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities which are conversion-free.

GHG emissions
Nomad Foods has time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 targets which are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

Solid and air pollution
The company partakes in activities and discloses quantitative data related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, and engages with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

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

Act ethically
Nomad Foods has a public commitment to protecting personal data and discloses a global tax strategy. Moreover, it has an executive-level individual who has responsibility for its global tax strategy. The company also has a policy on prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints.

Provide and promote decent work
Nomad Foods discloses a policy statement committing it to respect its operations and supply chain workers’ health and safety and provides evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Furthermore, it reports the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by gender and by age group.

Respect human rights
Nomad Foods has a policy statement committing it to respect human rights, along with a grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company. Moreover, it describes the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain and publicly discloses the results of its human rights risk assessments.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor 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 engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, ecosystem conversion and nutrition. However there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Lastly, the company could improve its transparency by disclosing 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 a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion or to ensure zero conversion, nor does it have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. While the company discloses some evidence of addressing conversion, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices.

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.

GHG emissions
The company should reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and report progress against its targets.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company utilizes the SAI platform’s farm sustainability assessment (FSA) to gauge the progress of its suppliers and farmers towards sustainability, including biodiversity, there remains an opportunity for the company to assess and disclose its impacts on nature within its own operations and upstream activities in its value chain. Moreover, the company could benefit from evaluating and disclosing its dependencies on nature in both its own operations and its upstream business 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company 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
The company should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous waste. It has an opportunity to 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. While the company reports some data on waste and disposal, it has an opportunity to report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target and disclosing water withdrawals in water-stressed areas. It also has an opportunity to disclose relevant information on water pollution or rights 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 has an opportunity to establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Furthermore, the company can demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement, emphasizes its non-participation in political contributions (not limited to political donation), or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to its workers’ wellbeing by setting a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage and detailing the living wage determination methodology in the regions where it operates. Furthermore, while it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to clarify if such wage is enough to maintain a decent standard of living for the workers and their family and to disclose its strategies to support the payment.

Additionally, the company could translate its commitment statements on gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document and establish a related time-bound target. It could also disclose that it has at least 30% women on the Board of Directors and reports the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations for each category.

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 and to extend this expectation to its business relationships. Furthermore, while it has conducted a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose how it identifies human rights risks and impacts in its operations. Additionally, the company could establish a global system to address its salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.