Tradewinds Plantation Bhd

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

The company only has general policies to sustainable practices in all aspects of operations.

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

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

The company has a Sustainability Team, and in its operations team it reports a member for "Safety & Sustainability" but the details and high-level responsibility are unclear.

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?

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)?

160000 - Total landbank, including both palm oil and rubber, is stated as approximately 160,000 ha, but no date is given. The company also reports a figure of 141,430 ha in Feb 2016.

9. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

132940 - The figure is undated.

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

940 - Data from 2011-2012.

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

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

13. Area for infrastructure (ha)?

14. Number and names of company owned mills?

11 - The company states it has 11 mills and provides names for all of them. However, this data is undated.

15. Maps or coordinates of company owned mills?

Some mill locations are on an external geo-referenced map, but this does not include all mills. Other maps of mills are shown on the company website, but these either do not cover all mills, are not sufficiently detailed and/or do not have a date associated with them.

16. Number and names of supplier mills?

17. Maps of estates/management units?

Some estate locations are on the GFW database, but it is not clear if this is all estates. The company shows some estates on geo-referenced map but only showing points, not boundaries of estates. Elsewhere, estate locations only shown by the company as image files, with no coordinates.

18. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

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%)?

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?

26. Criteria for defining deforestation?

27. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments?

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

The company only states that it identifies and controls environmental impacts.

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

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

No. On the contrary, the company states "planting on peat land will yield the desired results when managed correctly and sustainably.".

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

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

48. Landbank or planted area on peat?

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

50. Commitment to zero burning?

The company states it has a "zero burning replanting technique" and that it has "established a culture where no open burning is allowed" but it is unclear if this applies to all new planting.

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

52. Evidence of management and monitoring fires?

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

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

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

56. GHG emissions from land use change?

57. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

58. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

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

The company only states that it is evaluating the technologies for methane capture.

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

The company only mentions water management in relation to ensuring good drainage systems and minimising water loss by using terraces and cover crops.

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?

The company states river buffer zones have been created, but it is not clear whether it commits to putting them in place across all operations.

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

The company only has a POME treatment plant at Retus Palm Oil Mill in Sarawak. It states similar treatment plants are being built at 2 other mills, but this information is undated so it is not clear if these additional plants have been built.

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

The company only states that its IPM techniques reduce use of pesticides.

67. No use of paraquat?

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

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

70. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

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

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?

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?

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

79. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

80. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

81. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

82. Commitment to respect all workers' rights?

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

The company only states its commitment to a "non-discrimination employment policy".

84. Total number of employees?

85. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

86. Percentage or number of women employees?

87. Commitment to pay minimum wage?

88. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

89. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

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

91. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

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

The company was an RSPO member from 2009. However, the company resigned from the RSPO on 3rd September 2015.

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)?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

The company states that its Ulu Sebol A and Ulu Sebol B Estates, and Ulu Sebol Palm Oil Mill are MSPO-certified. No other estates or mills are listed as certified.

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

108. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

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

110. Programme to support independent smallholders?

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

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

113. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

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

115. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

The company commits to ethical conduct, but only mentions corrupt-free behaviour in its Business Partner Code of Conduct.

116. Whistleblowing procedure?

117. Own grievance or complaints system?

The company only mentions grievance procedures in passing in its Whistleblowing Policy.

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

119. Details of grievances disclosed?