DuPont Nutrition & Health - Sustainability 2018 Performance Summary
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DuPont Nutrition & Health focuses on sustainability throughout its value chain, aiming to integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into business practices. In 2018, they developed a sustainability scoring system for innovation, worked on sustainable sourcing, and established initiatives such as a clean-label hub and a center for meat alternatives. Their 2020 goals include eliminating coal usage, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and implementing sustainable sourcing programs, while continuing to partner with customers to achieve sustainability targets.
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- 1. SUSTAINABILITY AT DUPONT NUTRITION & HEALTH At DuPont Nutrition & Health, our approach to sustainability addresses our entire value chain. Life cycle assessments of our ingredients have long given important insights into how our raw material sourcing and production activities impact the environment. We also engage in partnerships with our customers to help them achieve their sustainability targets and estimate the extent to which our solutions help reduce their CO2 emissions. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide 17 well-defined focus areas for taking action and ensuring that we all play our part in solving today’s urgent global challenges. We support all 17, and there are six in particular where we believe we can make the biggest impact. These SDGs are a key reference point in our three-pillar sustainability strategy. During 2018, we took another step towards integrating the goals in our business by developing a new tool for evaluating the sustainability contribution of innovation projects. The tool will be implemented in 2019 and will enable us to prioritize innovation projects with the biggest potential to leverage the SDGs. Responsible production of safe, healthy and sustainable solutions for food and pharmaceuticals is a top priority for us, our customers and consumers. In 2018, we announced further initiatives that will strengthen our ability to support customers in this area – the establishment of a new clean-label hub and a global center of excellence for meat alternatives. This performance summary provides a brief overview of our main sustainability activities in 2018. More detailed information is available at www.dupontnutritionandhealth.com/sustainability.html. 2018 Performance Summary
- 2. 2020 GOALS STATUS Our Three Sustainability Pillars: Goals and Status • Develop and implement a sustainable sourcing program for 90% of all bio-based raw materials, including palm, soy, seaweed, locust bean kernels, wood and guar • Priority goal: source 100% certified sustainable palm oil and derivatives and implement sustainable palm oil sourcing policy (based on Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil segregated, mass balance and book & claim supply chains) • Expand the scope of SEDEX sustainability assessments to at least 100 direct suppliers and contract manufacturers SUSTAINABLE SOURCING SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS • Eliminate coal at all sites and increase share of renewable energy to 20% of total consumption • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% with 2010 as baseline • Reduce water consumption by 20% and establish water mitigation plans at high water-risk sites • Send less than 10% waste to landfill or incineration without energy recovery • Achieve certification of ISO 14001 environmental management systems and complete SMETA 4-pillar audits at all 100%-owned manufacturing sites Operations goals cover existing DuPont Nutrition & Health sites. Heritage Dow and FMC sites will be included from 2019. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS • Enable customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 15 million tons a year • Establish 20 sustainability partnerships with customers • Integrate sustainability scores in processing and product development projects • Conduct lifecycle assessment of all main product categories On track Progress made 2019 Priority area
- 3. 2018 Activities in Brief In 2018, we took another step towards integrating sustainability in our business by developing a sustainability scoring system for product innovation. The objective is to prioritize innovation projects that receive a positive score for their anticipated contribution to the SDGs – through our own supply chain, our customers’ supply chain and consumer health. We work at several levels to improve the transparency of our value chain, reduce our environmental footprint and develop solutions for healthy and sustainable foods. Some examples of initiatives and focus areas in 2018 are given here. SUSTAINABLE SOURCING Better management practices in seaweed farming Seaweed is one of our most important raw materials. During 2018, we developed a new set of Best Management Practices (BMP) for sustainably sourced seaweed in collaboration with the New England Aquarium in Massachusetts, USA. We are now training smallholder farmers in Indonesia to meet our BMP criteria. The goal is to ensure responsible harvesting and the farmers’ long-term livelihoods. A joint force in support of sustainable agriculture DuPont Nutrition & Health has joined the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform – the global food and drink industry platform for developing sustainable agriculture solutions. SAI Platform works with members and external stakeholders to catalyze change and establish sustainable agriculture as a pre-requisite for doing business in the food and drink supply chain. SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS The move from coal to carbon-neutral energy sources The transition from coal to wood chips is complete at our large manufacturing site in Grindsted, Denmark, where we expect to achieve carbon neutral certification in early 2019. This brings us very close to eliminating coal-sourced energy from all our sites. Our last remaining coal-powered site in Chile – representing less than 0.5% of our total energy consumption – is currently seeking an alternative energy solution. Water reuse program targets main water-consuming sites During 2017/2018, we mapped our water consumption and explored options for reduction. This has resulted in the development of a water reuse program targeted at the facilities that account for the biggest share of our total water consumption. The program will be validated in 2019 and is planned for launch in 2020 in connection with an upgrade of the sites’ wastewater treatment systems. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS New hub to focus on healthier, clean-label foods In 2018, we announced our plan to establish a hub for clean-label texturants at our Brabrand facility in Denmark. The decision is part of our commitment to helping food manufacturers develop more sustainable, simpler and healthier foods. From 2019, the hub’s team of scientists and engineers will be ready to start identifying new ways to convert sustainable raw materials into clean-label solutions. Center of excellence established for meat alternatives Consumer concerns about the environment, health and animal welfare are driving demand for meat alternatives. Through customer collaboration, we have expanded our knowledge of this category and, today, recognize it as an opportunity to do more sustainable business. To support this, in 2018 we established a new global center of excellence for meat alternatives at our facility in St. Louis, USA.
- 4. Our Priorities For 2019 • Scale up implementation of sustainable sourcing programs • Invest in reducing our use of fossil energy and water while improving yields • Advance sustainability in innovation and portfolio development by: • Rolling out our sustainability scoring tool for product innovation projects • Sustainability mapping of the current DuPont Nutrition & Health portfolio, based on the framework for Portfolio Sustainability Assessment from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development • Launch of clean-label hub for the development of healthier, more sustainable ingredient solutions • Continue to use the SDGs to set our direction and partner with our customers and suppliers to achieve our sustainability goals DuPont Nutrition & Health www.dupontnutritionandhealth.com/sustainability.html PB89-1•12.18 The information contained herein is based on data known to DuPont or its affiliates at the time of preparation of the information and believed by them to be reliable. This is business-to-business information intended for food, beverage and supplement producers, and is not intended for the final consumer of a finished food, beverage or supplement product. The information is provided “as is” and its use is at the recipient’s sole discretion and risk. It is the recipient’s sole responsibility to determine the suitability and legality of its proposed use of DuPont products for its specific purposes. Information and statements herein shall not be construed as licenses to practice, or recommendations to infringe, any patents or other intellectual property rights of DuPont or others. DUPONT HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS (I) ANY AND ALL LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LIABILITY RELATING TO THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF SUCH INFORMATION, AND (II) ANY AND ALL REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO SUCH INFORMATION, OR ANY PART THEREOF, INCLUDING ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT OR PATENT RIGHTS OF OTHERS, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS OR SUITABILITY FOR ANY PURPOSE, AND WARRANTIES ARISING BY LAW, STATUTE, USAGE OF TRADE OR COURSE OF DEALING. Copyright © 2018 DuPont or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. The DuPont Oval Logo, DuPont™ and all products denoted with ® or ™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company or its affiliated companies. About DuPont Nutrition & Health DuPont Nutrition & Health, a business unit of DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, combines in-depth knowledge of food and nutrition with current research and expert science to deliver unmatched value to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and dietary supplement industries. We are innovative solvers, drawing on deep consumer insights and a broad product portfolio to help our customers turn challenges into high-value business opportunities.