Dawn Robinson - Successes in Other Commodities
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Successes in Other Commodities - Dawn Robinson, Regional Director, Latin America, Proforest, from the 2014 Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), November 2 -5, 2014, São Paulo, Brazil. More presentations at http://trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2014-global-roundtable-sustainable-beef
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Dawn Robinson - Successes in Other Commodities
- 1. Successes in Other Commodities - November, 2014 Developing and Deploying Effective Sustainability Tools
- 2. Overview • Proforest – our experience • Context: drivers and trends • Using standards as sustainability tools • Examples • Closing thoughts
- 3. www.hcvnetwork.org Supporting people to transform natural resource production for greater sustainability
- 5. www.hcvnetwork.org SOY SUGAR FOREST PRODUCTS CATTLEPALM OIL EUROPE SOUTHEAST ASIA AFRICA LATIN AMERICA
- 6. Trends in sustainability tools Consumer concern & awareness Industry commitment Sustainable production Sustainability tools
- 7. Consumer concern and awareness Source: Greendex: National Geographic / GlobeScan Source: Greendex: National Geographic / GlobeScan
- 8. Industry Commitments By 2015 – 30% of the volume of our 12 key commodities volumes have been assessed against our Responsible Sourcing Guideline requirements and are compliant, or improvement plans are ongoing. Nestlé Policy on Environmental Sustainability Unilever Sustainable Living Plan By 2020: To source 100% of agricultural raw materials sustainably. HERSHEY’S Cocoa Sustainability Strategy By 2020: To purchase 100% certified cocoa for all chocolate products around the world. Cargill’s zero deforestation commitment To extend Cargill’s zero deforestation commitment for palm oil to all commodities it produces.
- 9. Standards as sustainability tools From a review of sustainability schemes and the use of standards: for GTPS (Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Beef), 2014 • Scorecards • Good practice guidelines • Communication and Disclosure • Self-assessment tools • Verification by a related organization (2nd party) • Independent certification (3rd party)
- 10. Scorecards Often campaigning tools Source: Forest Heroes
- 11. Promoting, reporting and measuring Turning commitment into action
- 12. How standards are used 1. Good practice guidelines 2. Communication and disclosure ETI Base code
- 13. How standards are used (2) 3. Self-assessment 5. Independent verification / Certification 4. Performance assessment by related organization
- 14. Self assessment tools: an example • Multi-stakeholder membership organization • A set of Principles, Criteria and Indicators • Social and environmental issues • Stepwise indicators: gradual progress • Criteria for the whole chain: producers, industry, NGOs, retailers, investors • Mandatory reporting: voluntary disclosure The Brazilian Round table on Sustainable Beef
- 15. Performance Assessment by related organization: an example Palm Oil SoyaSugarPulp and Paper HazelnutsVanillaFish and Seafood Meat, Poultry and Eggs Coffee Cocoa Dairy Shea Responsible Sourcing Guidelines (RSGs) 12 commodities RSGs: social and environmental standards 2nd party audits, and support
- 16. Certification Scheme: an example www.rspo.org Multistakeholder membership organization • Certifying since 2008 • Production standard • Chain of Custody Standard
- 17. Closing thoughts • Range of ways standards are helping: good practice, self-assessment, measurement, demonstration • Different tools for different phases • Lots of examples and experiences: no need to reinvent the whee • Emerging issues: • Race to commit unclear, or partially developed requirements (deforestation, HCS): • More regional testing, collaboration between approaches • Audit fatigue / duplication: • Harmonization / coordination: SEDEX for field audits? • Exclusion of smallholders: • Greater involvement from the start • Regional / risk-based approaches • Tools for industry to support them
Notas do Editor
- Speaking notes Slide 1 – our mission and way of working Proforest supports people to transform natural resource production systems, for greater social, environmental and economic sustainability. [Alternatively “Proforest helps people to use natural resources sustainably”] We work in three ways: by facilitating people and processes to develop policies and standards by developing capacity – whether that’s with producers, processors or buyers, auditors and assessors, civil society or governments by helping people implement responsible production and sourcing practices These three ways of working are mutually supportive: we can facilitate policy and standard development, and help develop capacity because of our experience in implementation And vice versa – we can help with implementation because we understand the intent and expectations of policies and standards.
- Slide 2 – Relationships We are a unique non-profit group which combines working through programmes and consultancy modes. We provide consultancy services to private companies and others to help them implement responsible practices in production and sourcing We run programmes that help develop people’s understanding and capacity for more sustainable production practices. This allows us to work with many different types of organisations including: civil society private sector partners along the entire supply chain: processors, manufacturers, traders and retailers producers of all scales governments We bring organisations together in multistakeholder processes, roundtables, partnerships and networks And also work with individual companies and partners.
- Slide 3 – Our scope – sectors, the supply chain, geographical regions We work with a range of natural resources and agricultural commodities. Primarily these are: palm oil soy sugar cane forest products cattle, leather and beef But we also bring our expertise to other commodities including cotton rubber coffee We work at all stages in the supply chain: production manufacturing and processing transport and trade retail and finance. We’ve worked in more than 40 countries around the world. The white dots show the locations of our projects. We do this through our regional offices in Brazil (Brasilia) Ghana (Accra) Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) UK (Oxford) This allows us to bring local and international expertise to our teams and to benefit from the 20 languages spoken by our staff
- Typically assigns points to particular criteria, to produce a simple score which allows comparison across the organizations being evaluated. May be used to praise the best performers, or to shame the worst Participation may be voluntary, or it may be involuntary. Oxfam: 10 companies: women, land, climate, workers.. Measured over time
- Good Practice There are standards created mainly to inform actors of what good practice looks like and serve as reference for the development of policies, tools and even other standards. This function is usually combined with others, such as some sort of self verification mechanism, but its main goal may be to provide advice. ETI Base Code is a generic code of labour practice and is internationally recognised as a model code. Communciation & disclosure Designed to increase transparency with a commitment to disclose information. The main assumption is that once the information is made public, peer and social pressure drives improvement. Often associated with membership organizations. CDP – Carbon disclosure Project. They request data from companies on climate change, forest-risk and other topics on behalf of their investor members to be used by financial decision makers in their investment, lending and insurance analysis. They also publish summary reports praising the best performers.
- 3. Self assessment: Self-assessments may be powerful agents of change if the actors already have the motivation and just need to understand how to make changes. They are usually combined with other functions, such as communication and disclosure, or certification. Standards created primarily for self-assessment tend to adapt the language to the end user. Solidraridad: The programme is intended to assist farmers with continuous improvement and consists of a set of voluntary tools to be applied by the farmers themselves. The self-assessment is then inserted into an online platform and used to benchmark against anonymous data from peers. Assessment by related organization. These are assessments commonly carried out by parties with an interest in the company being assessed, often by their customers/buyers. This is a typical scenario for companies to control their supply chains, making sure that their suppliers comply with the requirements they are being set. In some occasions this may also be done by NGOs or other organizations aiming to support the implementation of a standard. BCI actually has both self-assessment, and independent verification. But also an element when a support organization ‘BCI implementing partner’ reviews a group of cotton farmers and provides support and feedback.