Gokul Agro Resources Ltd

1. Sustainable palm oil policy or commitment for all its operations?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

2. Sustainable palm oil policy or commitment applies to all suppliers?

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

4. One or more members within the board of the company have responsibility for sustainability?

The company reports that it has a CSR committee responsible for sustainability.

5. Reports gender balance of senior management team?

6. Reports gender balance of board members?

1 (12.5%) - The company reports one (12.50%) female board of directors.

7. Member of multiple industry schemes or other external initiatives to reduce negative environmental or social outcomes associated with palm oil production?

8. Collaboration with stakeholders to reduce negative environmental or social outcomes associated with palm oil production?

9. Sustainability report published within last two years?

The company has published its latest annual report which includes the business responsibility & sustainability report for 2023-24.

10. Reports through standardised reporting systems?

11. Climate risks assessment available?

12. Lists countries and operations?

Refinery (Gujarat, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, India).

13. Lists countries sourcing from?

14. Total land area managed/controlled for oil palm (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

15. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

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16. Scheme smallholders planted area (ha)?

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17. Unplanted area (areas designated for future planting) (ha)?

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18. Conservation set-aside area, including HCV area (ha)?

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19. Maps of estates/management units?

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20. Maps of all scheme smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

21. Maps of all third-party supplying plantations?

22. Number of company-owned mills?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

23. Names and locations of company-owned mills?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

24. Number (or percentage) of company-owned mills that source from company-owned operations and third parties?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

25. Reports total volumes (or percentages) sourced by company-owned mills that come from company-owned operations and third-parties?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

26. Number of third party supplying mills?

27. Names and locations of all third-party supplying mills?

28. Number (or percentage) of third party supplying mills that source from their own plantations and third party plantations?

29. Reports total volume (or percentages) sourced from third-party supplying mills that come from the supplying mills' own operations and third parties?

30. Total volume (or percentage) sourced for refineries that comes from intermediary traders and/or refiners rather than directly from mills?

31. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to mill level?

32. Percentage of supply traceable to mill level?

33. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to plantation level?

34. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) supply to own mills traceable to plantation level?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

35. Percentage of supply from third-party mills traceable to plantation level?

36. Publishes traceability data at refinery level?

37. Publishes traceability data at crusher level?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

38. Member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)?

2019 - The company has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2019.

39. RSPO-certified within three years of joining the RSPO or by November 2010, for companies joining prior to finalisation of the RSPO certification systems in November 2007?

40. Submitted most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

The company has submitted its latest RSPO ACOP 2024.

41. Percentage of area (ha) RSPO-certified?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

42. Percentage of mills RSPO-certified?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

43. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of estates and mills within 5 years?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

44. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of all palm product processing facilities within 5 years?

45. Percentage of scheme smallholders (ha) RSPO-certified?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

46. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of scheme/associated smallholders and outgrowers within 5 years or target already achieved?

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47. Percentage of FFB supply (tonnes) from independent smallholders/outgrowers/third-party FFB suppliers that is RSPO-certified?

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48. Percentage of all palm oil and oil palm products handled/traded/processed (tonnes) that is RSPO-certified?

49. Sells RSPO-certified palm oil through Segregated or Identity Preserved supply chains?

This indicator is disabled as the company only reports a Processor and Trader ACOP.

50. Processes/trades RSPO-certified palm oil through Segregated or Identity Preserved supply chains?

This indicator is disabled as the company only reports a Grower ACOP.

51. Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certified (100%)?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not operate in Indonesia.

52. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not operate in Malaysia.

53. Certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme (e.g. ISCC, SAS, RSB)?

54. Commitment to zero conversion of natural ecosystems?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

55. Commitment to zero conversion of natural ecosystems applies to all suppliers?

56. Commitment to zero deforestation?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

57. Commitment to zero deforestation applies to all suppliers?

58. Criteria and cut-off date for defining deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

59. Criteria and cut-off date for defining deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion in supplier operations?

60. Cross-commodity zero deforestation commitment?

61. Cross-commodity zero deforestation commitment applies to all suppliers?

62. Target date to achieve zero deforestation?

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63. Target date to achieve zero deforestation in supplier operations?

64. Evidence of monitoring deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion?

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65. Evidence of monitoring deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion in supplier operations?

66. Amount of deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion recorded in own operations since cut-off date?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

67. Amount of deforestation and/or ecosystem conversion recorded in supplier operations since cut-off date?

68. Commitment to restoration of deforestation/conversion in own operations since cut-off date?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

69. Commitment to restoration of deforestation/conversion in supplier operations since cut-off date?

70. Implementing a landscape or jurisdictional level approach?

71. Biodiversity policy?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

72. Biodiversity policy applies to all suppliers?

73. Identified species of conservation concern, referencing international or national system of species classification?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

74. Examples of species and/or habitat conservation management?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

75. Commitment to no hunting or only sustainable hunting of species?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

76. Commitment to no hunting or only sustainable hunting of species applies to all suppliers?

77. Commitment to conduct High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

78. Commitment to conduct High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments applies to all suppliers?

79. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for planting undertaken prior to January 2015, and associated management and monitoring plans?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

80. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for all estates planted/planned planting since January 2015?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

81. High Conservation Value (HCV) or combined HCV/HCS management and monitoring plans for all estates planted/planned planting since January 2015?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

82. Commitment to only use licensed High Conservation Value (HCV) assessors accredited by the HCV Resource Network's Assessor Licensing Scheme (ALS)?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

83. Commitment to only use licensed High Conservation Value (HCV) assessors accredited by the HCV Resource Network's Assessor Licensing Scheme (ALS) applies to all suppliers?

84. Satisfactory review of all High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments undertaken since January 2015 by the HCV ALS Quality Panel?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

85. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach?

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86. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach applies to all suppliers?

87. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments available?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

88. Peer review of all High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments undertaken since April 2015 by the HCSA Quality Assurance Process?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

89. Commitment to conduct social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs)?

90. Commitment to conduct social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) applies to all suppliers?

91. Social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) available, and associated management and monitoring plans?

92. Commitment to no planting on peat of any depth?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

93. Commitment to no planting on peat of any depth applies to all suppliers?

94. Landbank or planted area on peat (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

95. Implementation of commitment to no planting on peat of any depth?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

96. Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

97. Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat applies to all suppliers?

98. Evidence of best management practices for soils and peat?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

99. Commitment to zero burning?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

100. Commitment to zero burning applies to all suppliers?

101. Evidence of fire monitoring and management?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

102. Details/number of hotspots/fires in company estates?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

103. Details/number of hotspots/fires within surrounding landscape/smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

104. Time-bound commitment to reduce absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?

105. Time-bound commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity?

106. Absolute GHG emissions?

The company reports scope 1 and 2 emissions as 1,71,699.58 and 32,408.96 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent, respectively.

107. GHG emissions intensity?

0.14 - The company reports total scope 1 and 2 emissions per rupee of turnover as 0.14.

108. GHG emissions from land use change in company's own operations (scope 1)?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

109. GHG emissions from land use change in supplier operations (scope 3)?

110. Progress towards commitment to reduce absolute GHG emissions?

The company reports a decrease in total scope 1 emissions from 2022-23 (1,79,366.12 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent) to 2023-24 (1,71,699.58 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent) and an increase in scope 2 emissions from 2022-23 (28,837.87 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent) to 2023-24 (32,408.96 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent).

111. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

The company reports a decrease in the total scope 1 and scope 2 emissions per rupee of turnover from 2022-23 (0.19) to 2023-24 (0.14).

112. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

113. Percentage of mills with methane capture (100%)?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

114. Time-bound commitment to improve water use intensity?

115. Water use intensity?

0.12 - The company reports water intensity per rupee of turnover as 0.12 in FY 2023-24.

116. Progress towards commitment on water use intensity?

The company reports a decrease in water intensity per rupee of turnover from FY 2022-23 (0.14) to FY 2023-24 (0.12).

117. Time-bound commitment to improve water quality (BOD and COD)?

118. Progress towards commitment on water quality (BOD and COD)?

119. Treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME)?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own mills.

120. Treatment of palm oil refinery effluent (PORE)?

The company reports wastewater treatment but does not explicitly mention PORE.

121. Commitment to protect natural waterways through buffer zones?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

122. Implementation of commitment to protect natural waterways through buffer zones?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

123. Commitment to minimise the use of chemicals, including pesticides and chemical fertilisers?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

124. Commitment to minimise the use of chemicals, including pesticides and chemical fertilisers, applies to all suppliers?

125. Commitment to no use of paraquat?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

126. Commitment to no use of paraquat applies to all suppliers?

127. Commitment to no use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

128. Commitment to no use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides applies to all suppliers?

129. Commitment to no use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

130. Commitment to no use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention applies to all suppliers?

131. Chemical usage per ha or list of chemicals used?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

132. Implementation of commitment to minimise inorganic fertiliser use?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

133. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

134. Waste management system in place to avoid negative impacts?

The company has implemented comprehensive waste management strategies across its locations. It reports that in Krishnapatnam, both pre-consumer and post-consumer plastic waste are managed through recycling and an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system and in Gandhidham, it follows strict procedures for managing hazardous waste, including segregation, secure storage, and processing or disposal through authorised channels.

135. Commitment to human rights?

136. Commitment to human rights applies to all suppliers?

137. Progress on human rights commitment?

The company reports that it provided 100% human rights training in FY 2023-24. It also reports that it has an internal mechanism in place and a Head of Human Resources to address human rights issues. Additionally, no human rights-related complaints were reported during the reporting period.

138. Commitment to respect Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' rights?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

139. Commitment to respect Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' rights applies to all suppliers?

140. Commitment to respect legal and customary land tenure rights?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

141. Commitment to respect legal and customary land rights applies to all suppliers?

142. Commitment to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

143. Commitment to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) applies to all suppliers?

144. Details of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process available?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

145. Examples of local stakeholder engagement to prevent conflicts?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

146. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

147. Supports the inclusion of women across palm oil operations, including addressing barriers faced?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

148. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

149. Progress on commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

150. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

151. Progress on commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

152. Commitment to provide business/work opportunities for local communities?

This indicator is disabled as the company is only a processor or trader.

153. Commitment to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles?

154. Commitment to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles applies to all suppliers?

155. Progress on commitment to respect all workers' rights?

156. Commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment?

The company commits to prevent employment-related discrimination based on gender.

157. Commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment applies to all suppliers?

158. Progress on commitment to eliminate gender related discrimination with regards to employment?

The company has established an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to address concerns related to discrimination and sexual harassment. It also reports that no workplace discrimination complaints were received during the reporting period.

159. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

160. Reports gender balance of employees?

23 (4.99%) - The company reports a total of 23 (4.99%) female employees in 2024.

161. Commitment to pay a living wage?

162. Commitment to pay a living wage applies to all suppliers?

163. Progress on commitment to pay a living wage?

164. Reporting of salary by gender?

165. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

The company states that it has adopted an integrated management system compliant with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards and has established a health and safety management system aligned with its health and safety policy across all its facilities and offices. However, it reports unclear commitment.

166. Commitment to address occupational health and safety applies to all suppliers?

167. Provision of personal protective equipment and related training?

168. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

0 - The company reports a zero lost time injury frequency rate in 2024.

169. Number of fatalities as a result of work-based accidents?

0 - The company reports zero fatalities in 2024.

170. Commitment to support smallholders?

171. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

172. Percentage of scheme smallholders involved in programme?

173. Programme to support independent smallholders?

174. Percentage of independent smallholders/outgrowers involved in programme?

175. Process used to prioritise, assess and/or engage suppliers on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

176. Number or percentage of suppliers assessed and/or engaged on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

177. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

178. Time-bound action plans (including Key Performance Indicators) for suppliers to be in compliance with palm oil sourcing commitments?

179. Proportion of supply from suppliers that is verified as deforestation- and/or conversion-free (DCF)?

180. Time-bound plan to engage with all high risk mills within 3 years?

181. Programme to support high risk mills to become compliant with sourcing policies?

182. Regularly engages with a subset of high risk mills?

183. Procedures in place to assess all own and third party supplying palm oil mills for risk level?

184. Regularly assesses and categorises the risk level of all their own and third party supplying mills?

185. Regularly reports the risk level of all own and third party supplying mills identified in its supply chain?

186. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

The company commits to ethical conduct and the prohibition of corruption.

187. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption applies to all suppliers?

The company commits all suppliers to ethical conduct and the prohibition of corruption.

188. Progress on commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

189. Disclosure of the company's management approach to tax and payments to governments?

190. Whistleblowing procedure?

The company has published its whistleblowing policy.

191. Own grievance or complaints system open to all stakeholders?

The company only states that it has established a comprehensive grievance redressal mechanism for all stakeholders, but no further details are provided.

192. Details of complaints and grievances disclosed?

The company discloses the number of complaints received, resolved and pending in FY 2023-24.