Nutreco’s 2020 Report officially wraps up its sustainability Vision 2020 and introduces the strategy for the next five years, RoadMap 2025, focused focusses on three main pillars: health & welfare, climate & circularity and good citizenship. “While we were able to meet 85% of our Vision 2020 ambitions, we engaged a much broader group of internal and external stakeholders in developing RoadMap 2025, to ensure our ambitions are both achievable and targeted to the needs of both our business and our customers,” said José Villalón, Nutreco’s Corporate Sustainability Director.
Other highlights from the report include:
- Sharing our dilemmas: For the third straight year, Nutreco continued its candid discussion on long-term, fundamental issues faced by its sector, aiming to generate much-needed debate and engage people across the value chain in finding solutions. It seems to be having an impact, as this section of the report receives the most feedback every year. The 2020 topics covered include the complex challenge of eliminating deforestation and how tough business decisions are needed to live up to the company’s commitment to reduce the risk of anti-microbial resistance (AMR).
- Climate impact: In 2020, Nutreco committed to Science Based Targets initiative. While the targets weren’t published until 2021, the company can already report a 12% drop in Scope 1 and 2* absolute CO2 emissions in 2020. When measured per production tonne sold, emissions reduction was even more significant, at -27%. Nutreco also reduced water usage substantially during the year.
- Diversity and inclusion: Today’s global challenges make it more crucial than ever to have diverse viewpoints and ideas to help solve difficult dilemmas. This is why Nutreco is committed to diversity and providing a workplace where everyone feels valued and included. In 2020, Nutreco made significant progress on its longer-term diversity and inclusion (D&I) targets, including raising the proportion of females in the Nutreco Executive Leadership Team to 33%. A total of 43% of appointments in the core group of senior leaders made in 2020 were female, and more than half of emerging talents are female. Of the company’s 21 senior leadership teams, 86% consist of more than one nationality.
- Sustainable ingredients: The report highlights Nutreco’s Soy & Palm oil sourcing policy and Code of Conduct for Business Partners, both implemented in 2020 through cooperative efforts by Procurement and Quality Assurance teams in both divisions. These two important documents will ensure the company’s divisions use sustainable ingredients in all products and ultimately decouple deforestation from its value chain by 2025.
You can find Nutreco’s online Sustainability Report 2020 on the company’s new website, which has been redesigned to tell its story in a more engaging way, with a better user experience and a fresh new look and feel.
Watch a conversation between Nutreco’s CEO Rob Koremans and Corporate Sustainability Director José Villalón about Nutreco’s 2020 Sustainability Report here
Read the full report here