Itochu Corporation

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

The company has broad policies on sustainability, but these are not specific to its palm oil business segment.

2. Policy or commitment applies to direct and third-party suppliers?

Some, but not all, of the company's sustainability policies explicitly apply to its suppliers.

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

The company mentions a "Sustainability Management Department" which is the secretariat for the "Sustainability Committee." It also refers to "Environmental Managers" who are responsible for conservation in different business divisions.

4. Sustainability report published within last two years?

The most recent sustainability report was published in 2017.

5. Member of multiple industry schemes or other external initiatives to improve sustainability in relation to palm oil?

The company is a member of the UN Global Compact.

6. Verification report on compliance with POIG Charter, if a POIG member?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

7. Activities with government, NGOs or academic institutions to improve palm oil sustainability?

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

9. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

10. Plasma/scheme smallholders planted area (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

11. Unplanted (areas designated for future planting) (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

13. Area for infrastructure (ha)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

14. Number and names of company owned mills?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

15. Maps or coordinates of company owned mills?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

16. Number and names of supplier mills?

17. Maps of estates/management units?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

18. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

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

21. Percentage of supply traceable to mill level (above 80%)?

22. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from own mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

23. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from supplier mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

24. Commitment to zero deforestation?

25. Deforestation commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

26. Criteria for defining deforestation?

27. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

28. Examples of habitat management and/or habitat restoration?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

29. Implementing a landscape-level approach to biodiversity conservation?

30. Commitment to biodiversity conservation?

31. Commitment to not endanger species of conservation concern, referencing international or national system of species classification?

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

33. Examples of species conservation activities?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

35. HCV commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

36. 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 it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

38. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for all estates planted since January 2015?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

39. High Conservation Value (HCV) management and monitoring plans for all estates planted since January 2015?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

42. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments?

The indicator is disabled as not applicable for traders.

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

44. Social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) undertaken, and associated management and monitoring plans?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

46. Peat commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

48. Landbank or planted area on peat?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

50. Commitment to zero burning?

51. Zero burning commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

52. Evidence of management and monitoring fires?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

56. GHG emissions from land use change?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

57. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

58. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

60. Time-bound commitment to improve water use per tonne of FFB Processed?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

62. Progress towards commitment on water use?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

64. Protection of natural waterways through buffer zones?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

65. Evidence of treating palm oil mill effluent (POME)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

67. No use of paraquat?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

68. No use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

69. No use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

70. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

72. Commitment to human rights, referencing the UN Declaration of Human Rights or UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?

The company states that in "promoting sustainability" it "refers to" the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is also a UN Global Compact member.

73. Commitment to human rights applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

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

75. Commitment to respect indigenous and local communities' rights, referencing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or ILO 169?

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

77. FPIC commitment applies to independent suppliers?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

79. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

80. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

81. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

82. Commitment to respect all workers' rights?

The company states that it respects "basic labour rights" but it is not clear whether all types of employee are covered under this.

83. Reference to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles?

The company refers to no forced labour, no child labour, no discrimination, and respecting the rights of employees to organise and collectively bargain. It refers to these as requirements for its suppliers, rather than specifically for the company itself. References are also made to not discriminating against union members, but no clear commitment was found to the ILO conventions on Freedom of Association (No.87), Minimum Age (No.138) or Equal Remuneration (No.100).

84. Total number of employees?

102086 - The company reported its total number of employees as 3,249 (non-consolidated) and 102,086 (consolidated) as of 31st March 2018. However, conflicting figures are published elsewhere within the same webpage.

85. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

86. Percentage or number of women employees?

1001 (23.4%) - The company reports that of 4,285 non-consolidated employees in 2018, 1,001 are female (23.4 %). For the same year, it reports 9.5% of its career-track employees, 7.0% of its managers, and 4.4% of its executive officers are female. A figure for the total number of women across all consolidated employees could not be found.

87. Commitment to pay minimum wage?

The company states that "suppliers shall prevent unfair low-wage labour" but neither a commitment to pay all workers minimum wage, nor evidence of this, was found.

88. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

89. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

For FY16-18, the company reports an "incidence rate of lost-time accidents corresponding to diseases per million hours" of 0, and an "injury occurrence rate with labour loss per million hours" of 0. However, it is not clear if these cover all the company's employees.

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

For FY16-18, the company reports the number of fatalities as zero. However, it is not clear if this figure covers all the company's employees.

91. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

The company has been an RSPO member since June 2006.

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

94. Listed all countries and regions in which operates in most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

95. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of estates within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of estates?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

96. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of scheme/associated smallholders within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of scheme/associated smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

97. Year expected to achieve 100% RSPO certification of all palm product processing facilities?

2025

98. 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?

2013 - The company became an RSPO member in 2006, and reports it achieved its first supply chain certification in 2013.

99. Percentage of mills RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

100. Percentage of area (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

101. Percentage of scheme/associated smallholders (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

102. Percentage of FFB supply (tonnes) from independent FFB suppliers that is RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

103. Percentage of all palm oil and oil palm products handled/traded/processed (tonnes) that are RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

972.97 (0.3%)

104. Sells or processes/trades RSPO-certified palm oil through Segregated or Identity Preserved supply chains?

Mass Balance only.

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

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

106. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

107. Certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme (e.g. ISCC, SAN, RSB, etc.)?

108. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

109. Number or percentage of scheme smallholders involved in programme?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

110. Programme to support independent smallholders?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

111. Number or percentage of independent smallholders involved in programme?

This indicator is disabled as it is not applicable to this company.

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

The company provides supplier guidelines and states that it has a policy to share these with all new suppliers before any transactions with them. It explains if suppliers are non-compliant it requests remedial action, and eventually "reexamines its dealings" with those that do not comply. It also explains its auditing against its Supplier Checklist, and its handbook to help employees communicate with suppliers about the requirements.

113. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

114. Percentage of suppliers assessed and/or engaged on compliance with company requirements?

The company states in 2014 it informed approximately 4,000 suppliers of its supplier guidelines, but there is not a clear figure relating to engagement on compliance with these guidelines.

115. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

116. Whistleblowing procedure?

The company refers to whistleblowers and states it has multiple whistleblowing contacts, but the whistleblowing procedure is not clear.

117. Own grievance or complaints system?

118. Grievance or complaints system is accessible to internal and external stakeholders?

119. Details of grievances disclosed?