Viterra

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

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

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

Glencore Agriculture only trades Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) and has informed ZSL it expects to publish a specific palm policy next year.

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

The company has a Sustainability Committee which consists of the CEO, CFO, and non-board members (Health and Safety Manager, Environment Manager and the Executive Manager Human Resources/Communications).

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

The CEO and CFO are on the Sustainability Committee.

5. Percentage or number of women in senior management team?

6. Percentage or number of women board members?

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

[Externally verified] The company is a member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

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 published its 2019 sustainability report in 2020.

10. Reports through standardised reporting systems?

The latest sustainability report is written to Global Reporting Initiative indicators (GRI) but the report is not published on the GRI website.

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

This indicator is disabled as the company is not a POIG member.

12. Climate risks assessment available?

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

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14. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

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

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

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

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

18. Maps of estates/management units?

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

19. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

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

20. Names and locations of all third-party supplying plantations?

21. Number of company-owned mills?

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

22. Names and locations of company-owned mills?

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

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

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

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

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

25. Number of third party supplying mills?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not source from third-party supplying mills.

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

This indicator is disabled as the company does not source from third-party supplying mills.

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

This indicator is disabled as the company does not source from third-party supplying mills.

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

This indicator is disabled as the company does not source from third-party supplying mills.

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

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

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31. Percentage of supply traceable to mill level?

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

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

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

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

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35. Publishes traceability data at refinery level?

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

36. Publishes traceability data at crusher level?

This indicator is disabled as the company does not own palm kernel crushing facilities.

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

[Externally verified] 2006 - The company has been a member since 2006.

38. 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?

2030 - The company joined the RSPO in 2006 and is not yet certified. The company stated a target to to be certified by 2030 in its 2019 ACOP.

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

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

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

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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 or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of estates?

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

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

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46. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of scheme/plasma/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?

82% - The company reports 602,717 tonnes of palm oil and oil palm products sourced in 2019 were certified out of a total of 734,014 tonnes.

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

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

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51. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified?

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

53. Commitment to zero deforestation or zero conversion of natural ecosystems?

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54. Commitment to zero deforestation or zero conversion of natural ecosystems applies to all suppliers?

The company states that one of its "environmental goals" is to "eliminate deforestation". However, the details and scope of this commitment are unclear.

55. Criteria for defining deforestation?

The company mentions it is working within the supply chain to protect HCS, conservation areas and peatlands from "uncontrolled expansion", but this is not a clear enough commitment excluding these areas from deforestation.

56. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

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57. Evidence of monitoring deforestation in supplier operations?

58. Amount of illegal/non-compliant deforestation recorded in own operations?

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59. Amount of illegal/non-compliant deforestation recorded in supplier operations?

60. Commitment to restoration of non-compliant deforestation/conversion?

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

61. Commitment to restoration of non-compliant deforestation/conversion applies to all suppliers?

62. Implementing a landscape or jurisdictional level approach?

63. Commitment to biodiversity conservation?

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

64. Commitment to biodiversity conservation applies to all suppliers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

71. 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 trader.

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

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

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

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75. 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?

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

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

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

79. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments available?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

90. Commitment to zero burning?

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

91. Commitment to zero burning applies to all suppliers?

92. Evidence of fire monitoring and management?

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

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

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

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

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

96. GHG emissions intensity?

The company reports GHG emissions intensity as 44.3 kg CO2e/mt processed, but this covers all of the company's operations and is not palm oil specific.

97. GHG emissions from land use change?

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98. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

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99. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

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

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

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102. Water use intensity?

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103. Progress towards commitment on water use intensity?

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

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

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

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

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108. Commitment to protect natural waterways through buffer zones?

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

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

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

112. Commitment to no use of paraquat?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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119. Implementation of commitment to minimise inorganic fertiliser use?

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

120. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

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

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122. Commitment to human rights?

The company makes this commitment in accordance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights and the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

123. Commitment to human rights applies to all suppliers?

The company terminates contracts with suppliers who are found to violate human rights but the definition for human rights is not as clear as the company's own policy.

124. Progress on human rights commitment?

[Externally verified] The company became members of UNGC and WBCSD in 2018, and published a Modern Slavery Statement in 2019 where it committed to publishing a Human Rights Policy which has now been published. The company reported no human rights breaches in 2019.

125. Commitment to respect indigenous and local communities' rights?

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

126. Commitment to indigenous and local communities' rights applies to all suppliers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is unclear that the commitment applies to all suppliers.

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

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132. Examples of local stakeholder engagement to prevent conflicts?

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

133. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

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

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

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

135. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

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

136. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security applies to all suppliers?

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

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

138. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

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

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

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

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

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

The company's Human Rights Policy was made in accordance to ILO Core Conventions.

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

The company has a commitment to ILO Core Conventions, however, it is not clear that it applies to all suppliers.

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

The company reports that all employees are given training on the company's Code of Conduct and grievance mechanism. Employees responsible for the implementation of human rights are also given training on international human rights standards. Information has not been externally verified.

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

The company has published this commitment.

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

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

147. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

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148. Percentage or number of women employees?

149. Commitment to pay at least minimum wage?

150. Commitment to pay at least minimum wage applies to all suppliers?

151. Progress on commitment to pay at least minimum wage?

152. Reporting of salary by gender?

153. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

The company has published an occupational health and safety commitment.

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

155. Provision of personal protective equipment and related training?

156. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

7.07 - The company had a total recordable injury frequency rate of 7.07 injuries per million man-hours in 2019, down from 9.68 in 2018.

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

158. Commitment to support smallholders?

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159. Programme to support scheme/plasma smallholders?

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160. Percentage of scheme/plasma smallholders involved in programme?

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161. Programme to support independent smallholders/outgrowers?

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

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

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

The Glencore Group has detailed a process by which it assesses suppliers on compliance.

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

165. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

There are criteria to exclude but no timeframes for action, therefore only partial points can be awarded.

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

167. Proportion of direct and indirect supply that comes from palm oil plantations which are compliant with palm oil sourcing policies?

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

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

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

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

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

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

174. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

The company links to a Glencore Group policy for the prohibition of corruption.

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

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

The company links to a Glencore Group policy which reports all employees are given training on anti-corruption, however this has not been externally verified.

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

The company has published a group tax policy.

178. Whistleblowing procedure?

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

The company has a dedicated programme and website called 'Raising Concerns' which is open to all stakeholders.

180. Details of complaints and grievances disclosed?