Sustainable Governance

Assessing Company Management and Performance on Sustainability Governance

KPI	Protein Scope	Operational Scope	Sub-KPIs and Best Practice Criteria
Assessment of a company’s sustainability governance	All proteins	Feed, Farm, Slaughter, Processing	Board sustainability • The company has conducted a materiality assessment, with board oversight, and publicly disclosed the results. • The board includes members with relevant expertise in sustainability, food safety, and product innovation, and is formally mandated to oversee sustainability issues. Incentives & policy engagement • The company links executive remuneration to sustainability performance. • The company discloses memberships with trade associations and engagement with public policy officials or civil associations on ESG issues. • The company is committed to aligning its policy engagement activities limiting a global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Innovation & benchmarking • The company has a strategic approach to sustainability innovation and benchmarks itself against peers in sustainability and innovation.

KPI

Protein Scope

Operational Scope

Sub-KPIs and Best Practice Criteria

Assessment of a company’s sustainability governance

All proteins

Feed,

Farm,

Slaughter,

Processing

Board sustainability

• The company has conducted a materiality assessment, with board oversight, and publicly disclosed the results.

• The board includes members with relevant expertise in sustainability, food safety, and product innovation, and is formally mandated to oversee sustainability issues.

Incentives & policy engagement

• The company links executive remuneration to sustainability performance.

• The company discloses memberships with trade associations and engagement with public policy officials or civil associations on ESG issues.

• The company is committed to aligning its policy engagement activities limiting a global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

Innovation & benchmarking

• The company has a strategic approach to sustainability innovation and benchmarks itself against peers in sustainability and innovation.

Note: There were no changes between the 2023 and 2024 iterations of the methodology.

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