Louis Dreyfus Company

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

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

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

Head of Sustainability.

4. Sustainability report published within last two years?

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

WBCSD, UNGC, TFT.

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?

The company previously aimed to "reach mill-level traceability for 90-100% of palm supplied to us" in 2017. The company reported that "palm oil traceability exceeded 92% of volumes purchased in 2017.".

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

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

92%

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?

HCV, HCS, peat.

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?

The company was a leading participant in the TFT Landscape Project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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?

The company expects its "supply chain partners" to implement best management practices on peat. No such statement is made regarding other soils.

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?

The company has a target to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 1% year-on-year each year from 2018-2022, but does not specify that this will be measured in emission intensity. However, current reporting is in intensity.

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?

58. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

The company's global emissions were reduced between 2016 and 2017, though it is unclear to what extent this includes palm oil operations. The company reports that fossil fuel emissions in 2017 were 18.56 KG CO2e/MT and renewable fuel emissions were 22.5 KG CO2e/MT. The company's time-bound commitment to reduce emissions is set from 2018-2022.

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?

The company has a target to reduce global water consumption by 1% year-on-year each year from 2018-2022.

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

62. Progress towards commitment on water use?

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

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?

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

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

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

The company only refers to these rights in the context of its suppliers, and free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).

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

The company commits to upholding the rights of local communities and/or indigenous people, but does not reference the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (no. 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?

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

84. Total number of employees?

18988 - Figure is the average number of employees for the year ending 31 December 2017.

85. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

3556 (5.34%) - All seasonal workers.

86. Percentage or number of women employees?

25% - All workers globally (not just related to palm oil operations), reported in 2017.

87. Commitment to pay minimum wage?

88. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

89. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

4.58 - The company reports a Severity Rate of 4.58 in 2017 which shows "the relation between the number of days away from work employees needed due to injury and hours worked. It is expressed per 100 employees for 1 working year".

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

3 - Reports the deaths of 1 employee, 1 contractor, and 1 person not contractually engaged by the company in 2017.

91. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

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

2017 - The company became a member in September 2017; in previous assessments just one subsidiary was a member.

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

The company became a member in September 2017. Companies do not need to submit an ACOP in the first year. Its subsidiary, Louis Dreyfus Company Asia Pte. Ltd. was previously a member, and is now parked under the parent company.

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?

100%

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?

One of the company's subsidiaries joined the RSPO in 2012 and achieved certification in 2014, but this has since been included under the parent company which became an RSPO member in 2017.

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%)?

One of the company's subsidiaries reported 62,705.6 tonnes of RSPO-certified palm oil and palm oil products handled/traded in their 2016 ACOP. However, the parent company is a new RSPO member, since 2017, and has additional subsidiaries with palm oil operations. Therefore it is not possible to calculate the overall percentage that this represents.

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

One of the company's subsidiaries reported that it processes/trades Segregated and Mass Balance palm oil in its 2016 ACOP.

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.)?

The company has ISCC TRS certification for subsidiary Louis Dreyfus Company Asia Pte. Ltd.

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 states that its engagement plan socialises its palm oil policy to suppliers and trading partners. The company's collaboration with TFT indicates that this process is ongoing, including a planned "training session for suppliers in Ivory Coast, aiming to facilitate understanding of LDC's Palm Sustainability Policy and discuss any possibility for collaboration." It also has a "grievance" list, which gives limited details about how the company is engaging with some suppliers, e.g. monthly calls to monitor progress.

113. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

The company reports that it has built a new body of processes in 2017 setting out how they do this, but does not provide details of the steps taken.

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

115. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

116. Whistleblowing procedure?

The company states it has a policy on whistleblowing, and that code of conduct concerns can be disclosed confidentially using a dedicated email address.

117. Own grievance or complaints system?

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

119. Details of grievances disclosed?

The company provides a grievance list but does not clearly provide the actions taken and status of each grievance.