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CDP Forests Questionnaire Preview and Reporting Guidance 2019 - Version Control
Version number
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Release/Revision date
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Revision summary
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0.1
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Released: Dec 17, 2018
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- The 2019 forests questionnaire preview and the general preliminary version of the reporting guidance was released.
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0.2
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Released: Feb 15, 2019
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Metals and mining and coal sectors
- ‘Rationales’, ‘Requested content’, ‘Explanation of terms’ and ‘Additional information’ were released.
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0.3
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Revised: March 14, 2019
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- The terms for submitting your response to CDP have been updated for 2019.
General questions
- Question linkages to the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) were added to the ‘Connection to other frameworks’.
- F1.1a: New ‘Example response’
- F1.4: New ‘Additional information’
- F1.4a: New ‘Example response’
- F1.4b: New ‘Example response’
- F2.1a: New ‘Additional information’
- F3.2b: Clarifications to ‘Requested content’
- F6.1b: New ‘Example response’
- F6.3a: New ‘Additional information’
- F6.7: New ‘Additional information’
- F7.1a: New ‘Additional information’
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0.4
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Revised: August 22, 2019
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Submission deadline was altered to 13th September 2019.
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CDP disclosure cycle 2019
Accessing questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies
CDP’s corporate questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies can be accessed by program (climate change, forests, and water security) from the guidance for companies page of CDP's website. You will be presented with three prompt screens that allow you to select the sectors and other details relevant to your organization. Questionnaires are valid for information requests from investors, as well as from customers that are members of CDP’s supply chain program. As there are sector-specific questions throughout the questionnaires, you might find that question numbers skip since not all questions will be applicable to your organization.
Responses to questionnaires are submitted via CDP's online response system (ORS), which is part of CDP's online disclosure platform. Please refer to Using CDP's Online Disclosure Platform for more detail. Note that while the questions themselves are the same in the questionnaire preview as they are in the ORS, the format may differ, particularly for drop-down options and tables.
Full and Minimum versions of the questionnaire
For all CDP questionnaires, there are two versions: minimum and full. The minimum version contains identical but fewer questions, and no sector-specific questions or data points.
- The minimum version of a questionnaire can by completed by:
- Organizations disclosing to that questionnaire for the first time; OR
- Organizations not disclosing to that questionnaire for the first time, but with an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million
Although any organizations meeting the above criteria may opt to complete a minimum version, they may not be eligible for scoring.
For more information on scoring eligibility and implications, please see Scoring Introduction.
For previous responders with an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million, CDP reserves the right to remove the option of a minimum version questionnaire due to the organization’s potential or existing environmental impact.
Note that companies eligible to complete the minimum version of a questionnaire can choose to answer the full version if they consider this to provide greater benefit to their organization or stakeholders.
Timeline:
December 2018
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- Preview of questionnaire and preliminary version of reporting guidance released on CDP website.
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March 2019
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- Final version of reporting guidance and scoring methodologies released on CDP website.
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April 2019
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- Access will be provided to CDP`s online response system (ORS)
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September 2019
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- Responses to investor and supply chain requests must be submitted by 13th September 2019 to be automatically eligible for scoring and inclusion in CDP reports (where applicable).
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For any disclosure-related enquiries, please contact [email protected].
CDP forests questionnaire
CDP's forests program and forests questionnaire
Global demand for agricultural commodities is the primary driver of deforestation and forest degradation, as timber is extracted unsustainably and land is cleared for agricultural production. This represents major risks to businesses as forest risk commodities are the building blocks of millions of products traded globally and, thus, feature in the supply chains of numerous organizations.
Deforestation and forest degradation account for approximately 15% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Stopping deforestation and degradation of forests and other critical ecosystems are vital to significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of natural capital, while preventing dangerous climate change and ensuring the long-term business supply of agricultural commodities.
CDP’s forests program acts on behalf of over 525 signatory investors, with US $96 trillion in assets, who wish to understand how organizations are addressing their exposure to forests-related risks. In 2018, 455 organizations responded to CDP’s forests questionnaire, which focuses on how organizations produce, source and use the four major agricultural commodities associated with deforestation: timber, cattle products, soy, and palm oil. There are ten modules, including the Signoff, plus a module presented only to organizations that supply goods or services to the member companies of CDP’s supply chain program. Note that Modules F10 to F17 are presented exclusively to companies from the metals & mining and coal sectors.
The table below provides further details on the forms of each commodity considered in the questionnaire.
Forest risk commodity
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Explanation
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Timber
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this includes all solid timber as well as products made from processed wood fiber such as paper, cardboard and specialty fibers (e.g., viscose). It also includes timber products used for biomass.
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Palm Oil
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this includes crude palm oil, palm kernel oil, and all of its derivatives. Please note that palm oil used for biofuel production is also included in this category, if applicable.
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Cattle Products
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this includes all food products containing beef, all clothing, furniture and accessories that are made of leather, tallow, and all other products derived from cattle. Please note that tallow used for biofuel production is also included in this category, if applicable.
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Soy
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this includes all meal or oil containing soy and any derivatives that are obtained from soy. Please note that soy used for biofuel production is also included in this category, if applicable.
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Commit to Action
CDP and its partners in the We Mean Business coalition have created a central platform for companies to take action on key climate issues. Hundreds of companies representing every economic sector and geography have taken action to date.
The leadership these companies demonstrated formed a critical part of the package of solutions reached in Paris at COP21 in 2015 and has continued to grow, now playing a critical role as the Paris Agreement moves from agreement to implementation. The We Mean Business “Take Action” platform gives companies a clear pathway for building the Paris Agreement into their business strategies and to future-proof growth, sending a strong signal that companies are making the transition to a low-carbon world and giving policy makers the confidence in raising their ambitions as governments prepare to ratchet up their national pledges in 2020.
One initiative companies can commit to on the We Mean Business platform is to remove commodity-driven deforestation from all supply chains by 2020. This commitment can be tracked in CDP’s forests questionnaire:
- Overview: Addressing deforestation and forest degradation, which accounts for approximately 10-15% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, is a critical component of climate change mitigation. The business community is helping lead the agenda on how the commodities linked to deforestation can be sustainably produced by committing to remove commodity-driven deforestation from their supply chains.
- Reporting: Companies can report this commitment, and progress against it, by answering F6.1 & F6.1b in full, as well as F1.5, F1.5a, F3.1, F3.1b, F3.2, F3.2a, F6.1a, F6.2a, F6.3, F6.4, and F6.9.
CDP and New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF)
The New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) is a voluntary initiative that brings together governments, companies, civil society and other stakeholders that work collaboratively towards halving the loss of natural forests by 2020 and ending it by 2030. CDP is one of the endorsers of the NYDF.
CDP is also part of the NYDF Progress Assessment Partners, an independent monitoring effort undertaken by a growing group of NGOs and research institutions that annually assess progress toward the NYDF.
CDP data is currently used to support the assessment of the NYDF Goal 2, which strives to eliminate deforestation from the production of agricultural commodities such as palm oil, soy, wood and cattle products by no later than 2020. CDP also plans to use disclosed data to contribute to the assessment of the NYDF Goal 3, which is focused on reducing forest loss linked to non-agricultural drivers.
CDP and Accountability Framework initiative (AFi)
CDP is part of AFi’s collaborative effort to help companies fulfill commitments for responsible agriculture and forestry supply chains. Developed in collaboration with a wide range of partners, the Accountability Framework provides a set of principles and guidelines designed to establish common definitions, norms, and best practices to help companies set, implement, monitor, and report on responsible supply chain commitments.
CDP has been working in collaboration with AFi to ensure further alignment with these definitions and guidelines in order to allow companies to more directly report on the principles set out in the Accountability Framework. At the moment, companies disclosing to CDP’s forests questionnaire will be able to report on key metrics established by AFi, e.g., their:
- Commitments to ensure responsible supply chains: F6.1a and F6.1b;
- Current certification schemes and sustainability standards: F6.4 and F6.5;
- Targets for sustainable production and consumption: F6.2a;
- Monitoring and traceability systems: F6.3a
- Verification: F8.1a; and
- Engagement with smallholders, direct and indirect suppliers and multi-stakeholder initiatives: F6.6, F6.8, F6.8, and F6.9.
Forests questionnaire developments
The questionnaire is stabilized for 2019 so there are no major changes. The forests questionnaire structure and content has been revised to improve the discloser’s experience, meet the requirements from data users, as well as to better align with other reporting frameworks, policy agendas and CDP’s water security and climate change questionnaires. In particular, to ensure alignment with the principles, definitions and guidelines set by the Accountability Framework initiative, small amendments have been implemented in the questionnaire and the key definitions have been revised.
A detailed document on forests changes from 2018 to 2019 is available on the website. Revisions to questions are also indicated by the “Change from 2018” below each question, either as ‘no change’, ‘minor change’, ‘modified question’, ‘new question’, or ‘modified guidance’.
“Minor change” indicates wording edits and revisions to drop-down options or a simple clarification, while a “modified question” indicates that a data request has been revised.
Sector approach
For 2019, companies responding to the forests questionnaire will have questions tailored to the sectors: coal, metals & mining and paper & forestry. The first two are new sectors, whereas the latter has been available since 2018. The rationale for developing a refined questionnaire for these sectors is outlined in the relevant sector introductions. Organizations with business activities outside of these sectors will receive a general questionnaire, as in previous years.
Each question number in the forests questionnaire begins with the letter F. Questions uniquely applicable for sectors are labeled using a two-letter abbreviation within the question number, as follows:
- F-CO for the coal sector
- F-MM for the metals & mining sector
- F-PF for the paper & forestry sector
F0 Introduction
Introduction
(F0.1) Give a general description of and introduction to your organization.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
Please note that when copying from another document to the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
(F0.2) State the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Start date
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End date
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From: [DD/MM/YYYY]
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To: [DD/MM/YYYY]
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(F0.3) Select the currency used for all financial information disclosed throughout your response.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Currency
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Select from:
[List of currencies]
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(F0.4) Select the stage(s) of the value chain which best represents your organization’s area of operation pertaining to forest risk commodities.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Stage of the value chain
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Timber
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Select all that apply:
- Production
- Processing
- Trading
- Manufacturing
- Retailing
- Not applicable
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Palm Oil*
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Cattle Products*
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Soy*
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Other – Rubber*
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Other
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* Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
(F0.5) Do you produce, use, or sell materials or products that contain any of the forest risk commodities?
Question dependencies
Your selection will affect the commodities shown in subsequent questions.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Produce/use/sell
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Disclosing
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Explanation if produce/use/sell but not disclosing
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Timber
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Select from:
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Palm Oil*
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Cattle Products*
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Soy*
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Other – Rubber*
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Other
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* Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
(F0.6) Are there any parts of your direct operations not included in your disclosure?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F0.6a) Identify the parts of your direct operations not included in your disclosure.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to F0.6.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Exclusion
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Description of exclusion
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Potential for forests-related risk
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Source/country/geographical area
- Business activity
- Facility
- Specific product line(s)
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select from:
- No potential
- Potential for forests-related risk but not evaluated
- Potential for forests-related risk, evaluated, but not disclosing to CDP
- Don’t know
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
(F0.7) Are there any parts of your supply chain not included in your disclosure?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F0.7a) Identify the parts of your supply chain not included in your disclosure.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to F0.7.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Exclusion
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Description of exclusion
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Potential for forests-related risk
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Source/country/geographical area
- Business activity
- Facility
- Specific product line(s)
- Specific supplier(s)
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select from:
- No potential
- Potential for forests-related risk but not evaluated
- Potential for forests-related risk, evaluated, but not disclosing to CDP
- Don’t know
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
F1 Current state
Dependence
(F1.1) How does your organization produce, use or sell your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the "Add Row" button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Activity
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Form of commodity
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Source
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Country/Region of origin
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% of procurement spend
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Comment
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Owned/managed land
- Smallholders
- Single contracted producer
- Multiple contracted producers
- Trader/broker/commodity market
- Contracted suppliers (processors)
- Contracted suppliers (manufacturers)
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
[List of countries/regions]
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Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
- Not applicable
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
Activity (column 2)
- Growing/ production of raw materials
- Harvesting
- Milling
- Crushing
- Slaughtering*
- Tanning for leather*
- Rendering for tallow*
- Refining & processing
- Refining & fractionation
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- Exporting/ trading
- Using as input into manufacturing process for power generation
- Using as input into product manufacturing
- Using for construction
- Buying manufactured products
- Distributing/ packaging
- Retailing/ onward sale of commodity or product containing commodity
- Other, please specify
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* Cattle Products only
Form of commodity (column 3)
Timber:
- Hardwood logs
- Softwood logs
- Sawn timber, veneer, chips
- Unprocessed wood fiber
- Pulp
- Paper
- Boards, plywood, engineered wood
- Primary packaging
- Secondary packaging
- Tertiary packaging
- Cellulose-based textile fiber
- Wood-based bioenergy
- Goods not for resale (GNFR)
Palm oil**:
- Palm oil fruit
- Crude palm oil (CPO)
- Crude palm kernel oil (CPKO)
- Palm kernel meal (PKM)
- Refined palm oil
- Palm oil derivatives
- Palm kernel oil derivatives
- Palm biodiesel
| Cattle Products**:
- Cattle
- Tallow
- Beef
- By-products (e.g. glycerin, gelatin)
- Hides/ leather
- Tallow biodiesel
Soy**:
- Whole soy beans
- Soy bean oil
- Soy bean meal
- Soy derivatives
- Soy biodiesel
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** Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
(F1.1a) Indicate from which State/region(s) and municipality(ies) your disclosed commodity(ies) originate.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select one of the following as ‘Country/Region of origin’ in response to F1.1: Angola, Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and Zambia.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Modified guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Country/Region of origin
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State/Region
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Municipality
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select from:
List created from country/region selected in column 5 of F1.1*
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Select from: - Specify state/region
- Don’t know
- Not disclosing
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Select all that apply:
- Specify municipality (1)
- Specify municipality (2)
- Specify municipality (3)
- Specify municipality (4)
- Specify municipality (5)
- Specify municipality (6)
- Specify municipality (7)
- Specify municipality (8)
- Specify municipality (9)
- Specify municipality (10)
- Specify municipality (11)
- Specify municipality (12)
- Specify municipality (13)
- Specify municipality (14)
- Specify municipality (15)
- Don’t know
- Not disclosing
| Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add row]
* Only tropical countries with high deforestation risk will be shown.
(F1.2) Indicate the percentage of your organization’s revenue that was dependent on your disclosed forest risk commodity(ies) in the reporting year.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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% of revenue dependent on commodity
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Comment
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Measurement
(F1.3) Do you own or manage land used for the production of your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Own and/or manage land?
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Type of control
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Description of type of control
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Country/Region |
Land type
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Size (Hectares)
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Select from: List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select from:
- Own land
- Manage land
- Own and manage land
- Don’t own or manage land
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Select from:
- Financial
- Operational
- Equity share
- Other type of control, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters] |
Select from:
[List of countries/regions]
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Select from:
- Planted
- Unplanted
- Conservation set aside
- Scheme/Plasma smallholders*
- Land certified
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
- Productive forest**
- Outgrowers**
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Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Do you have a system in place to monitor forests-related risks? | Type of monitoring system*** | Description of monitoring system | Recent infraction(s)? | Explanation of infraction**** |
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Select from:
| Select all that apply:
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Ground-based monitoring system
- Aerial monitoring system
- Other, please specify
| Text field [maximum 1,000 characters] | Select from:
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[Add Row]
*Not shown for Timber
**Only appears for companies from the paper & forestry sector
***Column only appears if you select 'Yes' in column 8
****Column only appears if you select 'Yes' in column 11
(F1.4) For your disclosed commodity(ies), indicate if you collect data regarding your own compliance and/or the compliance of your suppliers with the Brazilian Forest Code.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Brazil’ in Column 5 (‘Country/Region of origin’) in response to F1.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Do you collect data regarding compliance with the Brazilian Forest Code?
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Please explain
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select from:
- Yes, from suppliers
- Yes, from owned and/or managed land
- Yes, from both suppliers and owned/managed land
- No, we do not collect data
- No, we do not produce/source in/from Brazil.
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F1.4a)
For your disclosed
commodity(ies), indicate which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you use to
measure your own compliance with the Brazilian Forest Code and your performance against these indicator(s).
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes, from owned and/or managed land’ or ‘Yes, from both suppliers and owned/managed land’ in response to F1.4.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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KPIs and performance
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F1.4
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Select all that apply:
- % of owned and/or managed properties registered on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) database
- % of owned and/or managed properties with Legal Reserve (RL) and/or Permanent Protected Area (APP) deficit
- % of owned and/or managed properties with signed Terms of Commitment of
the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA)
- % of owned and/or managed properties with no gross deforestation after July 2008
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
(F1.4b) For your disclosed commodity(ies), indicate which Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) you use to measure the
compliance of your suppliers with the Brazilian Forest Code and their
performance against these indicator(s).
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes, from suppliers’ or ‘Yes, from both suppliers and owned/managed land’ in response to F1.4.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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KPIs and performance
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Number of suppliers |
Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F1.4
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Select all that apply:
- % of suppliers on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) database
- % of suppliers with Legal Reserve (RL) and/or Permanent Protected Area (APP) deficit
- % of suppliers with signed Terms of Commitment of the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA)
- % of suppliers with no gross deforestation after July 2008
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a range of
0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
(F1.5) Does your organization collect production and/or consumption data for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Data availability/Disclosure
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select from:
- Consumption data available, disclosing
- Production data available, disclosing
- Consumption and production data available, disclosing
- Data available, but not disclosing
- Data not available
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(F1.5a) Disclose your production and/or consumption data.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Consumption data available, disclosing’, ‘Production data available, disclosing’, or ‘Consumption and production data available, disclosing’ in response to F1.5.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Data type
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Volume
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Metric
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Data coverage
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘…disclosing’ in F1.5
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Select from:
- Production data
- Consumption data
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from:
- Metric tons
- Liters
- Gallons
- Round wood equivalent (RWE)
- Wood raw material equivalent (WRME)
- Cubic meters
- Square meters
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Full commodity production/ consumption
- Partial commodity production/ consumption
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
(F1.5b) Why is your organization not disclosing production and/or consumption data for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Data available, but not disclosing’ in response to F1.5.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Primary reason
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Data available, but not disclosing’ in F1.5
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Select from:
- Only partial scoping of forest risk commodities in products/supply chain completed
- Data considered confidential
- Other, please specify
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(F1.5c) Why is production and/or consumption data not available for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Data not available’ in response to F1.5.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Data not available’ in F1.5
|
Select from:
- Forests-related data collection is in progress
- We are planning to collect the data within the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- Insufficient knowledge of deforestation/forest degradation impacts from forest risk commodities
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
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(F1.6) Have you identified sufficient sources of sustainable materials to meet your current operational needs? If yes, what are you doing to ensure the security/continuity of this supply?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Sustainable source identified
|
Primary action to ensure supply
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Supply chain mapping
- Supplier diversification
- Supplier improvement plans to increase capacity of supply
- Engaging in capacity building activities in the value chain
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Detrimental impacts on your business
(F1.7) Has your organization experienced any detrimental forests-related impacts?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F1.7a) Describe the forests-related detrimental impacts experienced by your organization, your response, and the total financial impact.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F1.7
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 6: Remediation and access to remedy
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Impact driver type
|
Primary impact driver
|
Primary impact
|
Description of impact
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Primary response
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Total financial impact
|
Description of response
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Physical
- Regulatory
- Reputational and
markets
- Technological
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Primary impact driver (column 3)
Physical:
- Increased severity of extreme weather events
- Changes in precipitation patterns
- Rising mean temperatures
- Increased ecosystem vulnerability
- Declining ecosystem services
- Scarcity of land resources
- Land loss to desertification and soil degradation
- Forest fires
- Other physical driver, please specify
Regulatory:
- Changes to product standards
- Lack of mature certification and sustainability standards
- Changes in land tenure regulations
- Uncertainty and/or conflicts involving land ownership and occupancy rights
- Increased difficulty in obtaining operations permits
- Non-compliance with national legislation
- Changes to national legislation
- Non-compliance with international law and bilateral agreements
- Changes to international law and bilateral agreements
- Moratoria and voluntary agreements
- Poor enforcement of regulation
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Other regulatory driver, please specify
| Reputational and markets:
- Shifts in consumer preference
- Increased cost of certified sustainable material
- Availability of certified sustainable material
- Increased commodity prices
- Uncertainty about product origin and/or legality
- Local community opposition
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Exposure to sanctions and litigation
- Uncertainty in market signs
- Negative media coverage
- Other reputational and market driver, please specify
Technological:
- Inability to increase yield of existing production areas
- Limited access to soil conservation and other sustainable techniques
- Limited access to drought-resistant crop varieties
- Lack of monitoring systems
- Other technological driver, please specify
|
Primary impact (column 4)
- Brand damage
- Change in revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Decrease in shareholder value
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
|
- Increased insurance premiums
- Reduced availability of insurance on assets in “high-risk” locations
- Increased capital costs
- Increased compliance costs
- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Supply chain disruption
- Other, please specify
|
Primary response (column 6)
- Implementation of environmental best practices in direct operations
- Amendment of existing forests-related commitments
- Establishment of new no-deforestation/no-conversion
commitments
- Establishment of site-specific targets
- Increased use of sustainably sourced materials
- Forests/ecosystem restoration, remediation, and/or compensation
- New product/technology development
- Market expansion
- Greater compliance with regulatory requirements
- Greater due diligence
- Greater traceability of forest-risk commodities
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Supplier diversification
- Avoidance of sourcing from high-deforestation risk jurisdictions
|
- Engagement with local community
- Engagement with customers
- Engagement with suppliers
- Engagement in multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Participation in sector-wide and/or multi-stakeholder agreements
- Marketing campaign(s)
- Promotion of best practice and awareness
- Promotion of sustainable forest management, including financial incentives
- Promotion of certification, including financial incentives
- Voluntary engagement in conservation projects (including reforestation, afforestation and ecosystem restoration)
- Implementation of a landscape level approach
- Other, please specify
|
F2 Procedures
Risk identification and assessment
(F2.1) Does your organization undertake a forests-related risk assessment?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, forests-related risks are assessed
- No, forests-related risks are not assessed
(F2.1a) Select the options that best describe your procedures for identifying and assessing forests-related risks.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F2.1.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Value chain stage
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Coverage
|
Risk assessment procedure
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Frequency of assessment
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How far into the future are risks considered?
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Tools and methods used to identify and assess risks
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Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
- Not applicable
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Assessed as part of an established enterprise risk management framework
- Assessed as part of other company-wide risk assessment system
- Assessed in an environmental risk assessment
- Assessed as a standalone issue
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Six-monthly or more frequently
- Annually
- Every two years
- Not defined
|
Select from:
- Up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 3 to 6 years
- > 6 years
- Unknown
|
Select all that apply: - Internal company
methods
- External consultants
- Global Forest Watch
Commodities (GFW Commodities)
- Trase
- Soft Commodity Forest
Risk Assessment (SCFA)
- Sustainability Policy
Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT)
- Global Risk
Assessment Services (GRAS)
- IBAT for Business
- FSC Global Forest
Registry
- Starling
- National specific
tools and databases
- Jurisdiction/landscape assessment method or tool
- Other, please specify
- Don’t know
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F2.1b) Which of the following issues are considered in your organization's forests-related risk assessment(s)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F2.1.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Issue
|
Relevance & inclusion
|
Please explain
|
Availability of forest risk commodities
|
Select from:
- Relevant, always included
- Relevant, sometimes included
- Relevant, not included
- Not relevant, included
- Not relevant, explanation provided
- Not considered
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
Quality of forest risk commodities
|
|
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Impact of activity on the status of ecosystems and habitats
|
|
|
Regulation
|
|
|
Climate change
|
|
|
Impact on water security |
|
|
Tariffs or price increases
|
|
|
Loss of markets
|
|
|
Brand damage related to forest risk commodities
|
|
|
Corruption
|
|
|
Social impacts
|
|
|
Other, please specify
|
|
|
(F2.1c) Which of the following stakeholders are considered in your organization’s forests-related risk assessments?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes' in response to F2.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Stakeholder
|
Relevance & inclusion
|
Please explain
|
Customers
|
Select from:
- Relevant, always included
- Relevant, sometimes included
- Relevant, not included
- Not relevant, included
- Not relevant, explanation provided
- Not considered
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
Employees
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|
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Investors
|
|
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Local communities
|
|
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NGOs
|
|
|
Other forest risk commodity users/producers at a local level
|
|
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Regulators
|
|
|
Suppliers
|
|
|
Other stakeholders, please specify
|
|
|
(F2.1d) Why does your organization not undertake a forests-related risk assessment?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No, forests-related risks are not assessed' in response to F2.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Forests-related risk assessment in progress
- We are planning to introduce a risk assessment process in the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- Insufficient knowledge of deforestation/forest degradation impacts from forest risk commodities
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
F3 Risks and opportunities
Risks
(F3.1) Have you identified any inherent forests-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Risk identified? |
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
|
(F3.1a) How does your organization define substantive impact on your business?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with limit of 5,000 characters.
Please note that when copying from another document to the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
(F3.1b) For your disclosed forest risk commodity(ies), provide details of risks identified with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and your response to those risks.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in F3.1.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Type of risk
|
Geographical scale
|
Where in your value chain does the risk driver occur?
|
Primary risk driver
|
Primary potential impact
|
Company-specific description
|
Timeframe
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected 'Yes' in F3.1
|
Select from:
- Physical
- Regulatory
- Reputational and markets
- Technological
|
Select from:
- Global
- Region
- Country
- Province
- Forest (concession)
- Tannery
- Slaughterhouse
- Farm
- Mill
- Plantation
- Forest management unit
|
Select all that apply:
- Direct operation
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- >6 years
- Unknown
|
Magnitude of potential impact | Likelihood | Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - minimum (currency)** | Potential financial impact figure - maximum (currency)** |
---|
Select from:
- High
- Medium-high
- Medium
- Medium-low
- Low
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Virtually certain
- Very likely
- Likely
- More likely than not
- About as likely as not
- Unlikely
- Very unlikely
- Exceptionally unlikely
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Explanation of financial impact
|
Primary response to risk
|
Description of response
|
Cost of response
|
Explanation of cost of response
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
*Only appears if you select ‘Yes, a single figure estimate’ in column 11 (Are you able to provide…?)
**Only appears if you select ‘Yes, an estimated range’ in column 11 (Are you able to provide…?)
Primary risk driver (column 5)
Physical:
- Increased severity of extreme weather events
- Changes in precipitation patterns
- Rising mean temperatures
- Increased ecosystem vulnerability
- Declining ecosystem services
- Scarcity of land resources
- Land loss to desertification and soil degradation
- Forest fires
- Other physical driver, please specify
Regulatory:
- Changes to product standards
- Lack of mature certification and sustainability standards
- Changes in land tenure regulations
- Uncertainty and/or conflicts involving land ownership and occupancy rights
- Increased difficulty in obtaining operations permits
- Non-compliance with national legislation
- Changes to national legislation
- Non-compliance with international law and bilateral agreements
- Changes to international law and bilateral agreements
- Moratoria and voluntary agreements
- Poor enforcement of regulation
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Other regulatory driver, please specify
| Reputational and markets:
- Shifts in consumer preference
- Increased cost of certified sustainable material
- Availability of certified sustainable material
- Increased commodity prices
- Uncertainty about product origin and/or legality
- Local community opposition
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Exposure to sanctions and litigation
- Uncertainty in market signs
- Negative media coverage
- Other reputational and market driver, please specify
Technological:
- Inability to increase yield of existing production areas
- Limited access to soil conservation and other sustainable techniques
- Limited access to drought-resistant crop varieties
- Lack of monitoring systems
- Other technological driver, please specify
|
Primary potential impact (column 6)
- Brand damage
- Change in revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Decrease in shareholder value
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
|
- Increased insurance premiums
- Reduced availability of insurance on assets in “high-risk” locations
- Increased capital costs
- Increased compliance costs
- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Supply chain disruption
- Other, please specify
|
Primary response to risk (column 16)
- Implementation of environmental best practices in direct operations
- More ambitious forest-related commitments
- Establishment of site-specific targets
- Increased use of sustainably sourced materials
- New product/technology development
- Market expansion
- Greater compliance with regulatory requirements
- Greater due diligence
- Greater traceability of forest-risk commodities
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Supplier diversification
- Avoidance of sourcing from high-deforestation risk jurisdictions
|
- Engagement with local community
- Engagement with customers
- Engagement with suppliers
- Engagement in multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Marketing campaign(s)
- Promotion of best practice and awareness
- Promotion of sustainable forest management, including financial incentives
- Promotion of certification, including financial incentives
- Voluntary engagement in conservation projects (including reforestation, afforestation and ecosystem restoration)
- Implementation of a landscape level approach
- Other, please specify
|
(F3.1c) Why does your organization not consider itself to be exposed to forests-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No' in response to F3.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘No’ in F3.1
|
Select from:
- Risks exist, but no substantive impact anticipated
- Evaluation in progress
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Opportunities
(F3.2) Have you identified any forests-related opportunities with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Have you identified opportunities?
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Yes
- Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them
- No
|
(F3.2a) For your selected forest risk commodity(ies), provide details of the identified opportunities with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F3.2.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Type of opportunity
|
Where in your value chain does the opportunity occur?
|
Primary forests-related opportunity
|
Financial incentives
|
Company-specific description & strategy to realize opportunity
|
Estimated timeframe for realization
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Yes’ in F3.2
|
Select from:
- Efficiency
- Resilience
- Markets
- Products
& services
- Other
|
Select all that apply:
- Direct operation
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- >6 years
- Unknown
|
Magnitude of potential impact | Likelihood | Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure – minimum (currency)** | Potential financial impact figure – maximum (currency)** | Explanation of financial impact figure |
---|
Select from:
- High
- Medium-high
- Medium
- Medium-low
- Low
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Virtually certain
- Very likely
- Likely
- More likely than not
- About as likely as not
- Unlikely
- Very unlikely
- Exceptionally unlikely
- Unknown
| Select from:- Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[Add Row]
*Only appears if you select ‘Yes, a single figure estimate’ in column 10 (Are you able to provide…?)
**Only appears if you select ‘Yes, an estimated range’ in column 10 (Are you able to provide…?)
Primary forests-related opportunity (column 4)
Efficiency
- Cost savings
- Increased shareholder value
- Increased efficiency of manufacturing and/or distribution processes
- Sustainable agricultural intensification
Resilience
- Improved climate change adaptation
- Ensuring supply chain resilience
- Improved response to regulatory changes
- Improved staff retention
- Improved customer education
- Improved supply chain engagement
Markets
- Driving demand for sustainable materials
- Increased capacity of sustainable commodity markets
- Expansion into new markets
- Financial incentives, e.g., REDD+
- Improved community relations
|
Products & services
- Increased brand value
- Increased security of production
- Increased transparency
- Increased R&D and innovation opportunities
Other
|
Financial incentives (column 5)*
- UN REDD
- Forestry fund**
- Community-based REDD+
- Jurisdictional REDD+
- Private REDD+
- Easier access, cheaper and/or more availability to credit
- Access to climate funds
- Issuing green bonds
|
- Incentives to promote Low Carbon Agriculture
- Payment for environmental services (other than REDD+)
- Financial reward from buyers
- Better market access
- Letters of Sustainable Credits (LCs)
- Environmental Reserve Quotes or CRA***
- Other, please specify
|
* Column only appears depending on drop-down selection in C4 (Primary forests-related opportunity)
** Only appears for companies from the paper & forestry sector
*** Only appears if an organization selects “Brazil” in C5 of F1.1
(F3.2b) Why does your organization not consider itself to have forests-related opportunities?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No' or 'Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them' in response to F3.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated with those forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘No’ in F3.2
|
Select from:
- Opportunities exist, we are unable to realize them
- Opportunities exist, but none with potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on business
- Evaluation in progress
- Judged to be unimportant
- No instruction from management to seek out opportunities
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
F4 Governance
Policy
(F4.1) Does your organization have a policy that includes forests-related issues?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle A: Supply chains are deforestation-free and protective of other natural ecosystems
Core Principle B1: Respect for the rights of indigenous people and local communities
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, we have a documented forest policy that is publicly available
- Yes, we have a documented forest policy, but it is not publicly available
- No, but we plan to develop one within the next two years
- No
(F4.1a) Select the options to describe the scope and content of your policy.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F4.1.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle A: Supply chains are deforestation-free and protective of other natural ecosystems
Core Principle B1: Respect for the rights of indigenous people and local communities
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Scope
|
Content
|
Please explain |
Select from:
- Company-wide
- Selected facilities, businesses or geographies only
- Selected products only
|
Select all that apply: - Commitment to
eliminate deforestation and/or conversion
- Commitment to eliminate forests degradation
- Commitment to
protect rights and livelihoods of local communities
- Commitments beyond
regulatory compliance
- Commitment to
transparency
- Commitment to stakeholder awareness and education
- Commitment to
innovation
- Commitment to
align with public policy initiatives, e.g. SDGs
- Recognition of the overall importance
of forests and other natural habitats
- Description of business dependency on
forests
- Recognition of potential business
impact on forests and other natural habitats
- Description of forest risk commodities,
parts of the business, and stages of value-chain covered by the policy
- List of timebound commitments and
targets
- Description
of forests-related performance standards for direct operations
- Description
of forests-related standards for procurement
- Reference to international standards
and widely-recognized forests-related initiatives
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
(F4.1b) Do you have commodity specific sustainability policy(ies)? If yes, select the options that best describe their scope and content.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F4.1.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle A: Supply chains are deforestation-free and protective of other natural ecosystems
Core Principle B1: Respect for the rights of indigenous people and local communities
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Do you have a commodity specific sustainability policy?
|
Scope
|
Content
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Company-wide
- Selected facilities, businesses or geographies only
- Selected products only
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 charachters]
|
Content (column 4)
- Commitment to eliminate deforestation and/or conversion
- Commitment to eliminate forests degradation
- Commitment to protect rights and livelihoods of local communities
- Commitments beyond regulatory compliance
- Commitment to transparency
- Commitment to stakeholder awareness and education
- Commitment to innovation
- Commitment to align with public policy initiatives, e.g. SDGs
- Recognition of the overall importance of forests and other natural habitats
| - Description of business dependency on forests
- Recognition of potential business impact on forests and other natural habitats
- Description of forest risk commodities, parts of the business, and stages of value-chain covered by the policy
- List of timebound commitments and targets
- Description of forests-related performance standards for direct operations
- Description of forests-related standards for procurement
- Reference to international standards and widely-recognized forests-related initiatives
- Other, please specify
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Board oversight
(F4.2) Is there board-level oversight of forests-related issues within your organization?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F4.2a) Identify the position(s) of the individual(s) (do not include any names) on the board with responsibility for forests-related issues.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F4.2.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Position of individual
|
Please explain
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Select from:
- Board Chair
- Director on board
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Board-level committee
- Other, please specify
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(F4.2b) Provide further details on the board’s oversight of forests-related issues.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F4.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Frequency that forests-related issues are a scheduled agenda item
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Governance mechanisms into which forests-related issues are integrated
|
Please explain
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Select from:
- Scheduled - all meetings
- Scheduled - some meetings
- Sporadic - as important matters arise
- Other, please specify
|
Select all that apply:
- Monitoring implementation and performance
- Overseeing acquisitions and divestiture
- Overseeing major capital expenditures
- Providing employee incentives
- Reviewing and guiding annual budgets
- Reviewing and guiding business plans
- Reviewing and guiding corporate responsibility strategy
- Reviewing and guiding major plans of action
- Reviewing and guiding risk management policies
- Reviewing and guiding strategy
- Reviewing innovation / R&D priorities
- Setting performance objectives
- Other, please specify
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(F4.2c) Why is there no board-level oversight of forests-related issues and what are your plans to change this in the future?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No' in response to F4.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Board level oversight of forests-related issues will be introduced in the next two years |
Please explain
|
Text field [maximum 200 characters]
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Management responsibility
(F4.3) Provide the highest management-level position(s) or committee(s) with responsibility for forests-related issues (do not include the names of individuals).
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Name of the position(s) and/or committee(s)
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Responsibility
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Frequency of reporting to the board on forests-related issues
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer, please specify
- President
- Risk committee
- Sustainability committee
- Safety, Health, Environment and Quality committee
- Corporate responsibility committee
- Other committee, please specify
- Business unit manager
- Buyers/purchasers
- Energy manager
- Environmental, health and safety manager
- Environment/Sustainability manager
- Facilities manager
- Process operation manager
- Procurement manager
- Public affairs manager
- Risk manager
- There is no management-level responsibility for forests-related issues
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Assessing forests-related risks and opportunities
- Managing forests-related risks and opportunities
- Both assessing and managing forests-related risks and opportunities
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- More frequently than quarterly
- Quarterly
- Half-yearly
- Annually
- Less frequently than annually
- As important matters arise
- Not reported to board
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Employee incentives
(F4.4) Do you provide incentives to C-suite employees or board members for the management of forests-related issues?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
Response options
Select from the following options:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we do plan to introduce them in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to introduce them in the next two years
(F4.4a) What incentives are provided to C-Suite employees or board members for the management of forests-related issues (do not include the names of individuals)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ' Yes' in response to F4.4.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Type of incentives
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Who is entitled to benefit from these incentives?
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Indicator for incentivized performance
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Please explain
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Monetary reward
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Select all that apply:
- Board chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Corporate executive team
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO)
- Other C-suite Officer
- Other, please specify
- No one is entitled to these incentives
|
Select all that apply:
- Achievement of commitments and targets
- Supply chain engagement
- Other, please specify
- No indicator for
incentivized performance
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Recognition (non-monetary)
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Other non-monetary reward
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Reporting
(F4.5) Did your organization include information about its response to forests-related risks in its most recent mainstream financial report?
Change from 2018
New question
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes (you may attach the report – this is optional)
- No, but we plan to do so in the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so
F5 Business strategy
Strategic plan
(F5.1) Are forests-related issues integrated
into any aspects of your long-term strategic business plan, and if so how?
Change from 2018
Modified guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Aspect of strategy
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Are forests-related issues integrated?
|
Long-term time horizon (years)
|
Please explain
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Long-term business objectives
|
Select from:
- Yes, forests-related issues are integrated
- No, forests-related related issues were reviewed but not considered as strategically relevant/significant
- No, forests-related issues not yet reviewed, but there are plans to do so in the next two years
- No, forests-related issues were not reviewed and there are no plans to do so
|
Select from:
- 5-10
- 11-15
- 16-20
- 21-30
- >30
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Strategy for long-term objectives
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Financial planning
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F6 Implementation
Commitments
(F6.1) Has your organization made a public commitment to reduce or remove deforestation and/or forest degradation from its direct operations and/or supply chain?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle A: Supply chains are deforestation-free and protective of other natural ecosystems
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F6.1a) Has your organization endorsed any of the following initiatives as part of its public commitment to reduce or remove deforestation and/or forest degradation?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.1.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle A: Supply chains are deforestation-free and protective of other natural ecosystems
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Select all that apply:
- New York Declaration on Forests
- Tropical Forest Alliance 2020
- We Mean Business
- Cerrado Manifesto
- Soy Moratorium
- Cattle Agreement (TAC)
- Other, please specify
(F6.1b) Provide details on your public commitment(s), including the description of specific criteria, coverage, and actions.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.1.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle A: Supply chains are deforestation-free and protective of other natural ecosystems
Core Principle B: Supply chains respect human rights
Core Principle C1: Scope
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Commodity coverage
|
Criteria
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Operational coverage
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% of total production/ consumption covered by commitment
| Cutoff date |
Commitment timeframe
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Timber
- Palm Oil*
- Cattle Products*
- Soy*
- Other-Rubber*
- Other
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select from:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Direct operations and supply chain
- Selected facilities, businesses or geographies only
|
Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
| Select from:- <1987
- 1987-1992
- 1993-1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- Not applicable
- No cutoff date
|
Select from:
- <2017
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021-2025
- 2026-2030
- >2030
- No timeframe
|
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* Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
Criteria (column 2)
Environmental
- No conversion of natural habitats
- Zero gross deforestation
- Zero net deforestation
- No forest degradation
- No new development on peatland
- Forest landscape restoration
- Avoidance of negative impacts on threatened and protected species and habitats
- No trade of CITES listed species
- No land clearance by burning or clearcutting
- No conversion of High Conservation Value areas
- No conversion of High Carbon Stock forests
Social
- Adoption of UN Global Compact principles
- Adoption of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) principles
- Recognition and endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment
- Adoption of the UN International Labour Organization principles
- Resolution of complaints and conflicts through an open, transparent and consultative process
- Facilitate the inclusion of smallholders into the supply chain
| Legal- No sourcing of illegally produced and/or traded forest risk commodities
- No sourcing of forest risk commodities from unknown/controversial sources
- Restricting the sourcing and/or trade of forest risk commodities to credible certified sources
- Other, please specify
|
Targets
(F6.2) Did you have any quantified targets for increasing sustainable production and/or consumption of your disclosed commodity(ies) that were active during the reporting year?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle C2: Verifiable actions and timebound targets
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F6.2a) Provide details of your target(s) for increasing sustainable production and/or consumption of the disclosed commodity(ies), and progress made.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle C2: Verifiable actions and timebound targets
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please
complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
Target reference number
|
Forest risk commodity
|
Form of commodity covered
|
Type of target
|
Coverage
|
Traceability point*
|
Third-party certification scheme
|
Select from:
- Target 1
- Target 2
- Target 3
- Target 4
- Target 5
- Target 6
- Target 7
- Target 8
- Target 9
- Target 10
- Target 11
- Target 12
- Target 13
- Target 14
- Target 15
- Target 16
- Target 17
- Target 18
- Target 19
- Target 20
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Third-party certification scheme
- Sustainable production standard
- Sustainable procurement standard
- Traceability
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Direct operations and supply chain
|
Select from:
- Country
- Region
- Province
- Forest
- Tannery
- Slaughterhouse
- Farm
- Mill
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
- Forest management unit
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Start year | Start figure | Target year | Target | % achieved | Please explain |
---|
[YYYY]
| Select from:
- 0%
- 1-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don't know
| [YYYY]
| Select from:
- <10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
| Select from:
- 0%
- 1-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don't know
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* Drop-down list for traceability point is only shown if `Traceability' is selected in the `Type of Target' column
Form of commodity covered (column 3)
Timber:
- All forms of timber
- Hardwood logs
- Softwood logs
- Sawn timber, veneer, chips
- Unprocessed wood fiber
- Pulp
- Paper
- Boards, plywood, engineered wood
- Primary packaging
- Secondary packaging
- Tertiary packaging
- Cellulose-based textile fiber
- Wood-based bioenergy
- Goods not for resale (GNFR)
Palm Oil**:
- All forms of palm oil
- Palm oil fruit
- Crude palm oil (CPO)
- Crude palm kernel oil (CPKO)
- Palm kernel meal (PKM)
- Refined palm oil
- Palm oil derivatives
- Palm kernel oil derivatives
- Palm biodiesel
| Cattle Products**:- All forms of cattle products
- Cattle
- Tallow
- Beef
- By-products (e.g. glycerin, gelatin)
- Hides/ leather
- Tallow biodiesel
Soy**:
- All forms of soy
- Whole soy beans
- Soy bean oil
- Soy bean meal
- Soy derivatives
- Soy biodiesel
|
** Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
Third-party certification scheme (column 7)***
Timber:
- FSC Forest Management certification
- FSC Chain of Custody
- FSC Controlled Wood
- FSC Group certification
- FSC SMLIF (small or low-intensity managed forest)
- FSC Recycled
- PEFC Sustainable Forest Management certification
- PEFC Chain of Custody
- PEFC Project Chain of Custody
- PEFC Group certification
- SFI Forest Management certification
- SFI Chain of Custody
- SFI Fiber Sourcing certification
- RA SmartWood
- RA SmartLogging
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z809
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z804
- Australian Forest Standard (AS 4708)
- Australian Chain of Custody Standard (AS 4707)
- American Forest Foundation Tree Farm System
- Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council (SGEC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
Palm Oil**:
- RSPO producer/grower certification
- RSPO Identity Preserved
- RSPO Segregated
- RSPO Mass Balance
- RSPO Book and Claim
- RSPO Next
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- RA Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) standard
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
| Cattle Products**:- RA SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
- RA SAN Chain of Custody
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
Soy**:
- RTRS Chain of Custody
- RTRS Standard for Responsible Soy Production
- RTRS certificate trading
- ProTerra certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
|
** Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
*** Column is only shown if `Third-party certification scheme' is selected in the previous `Type of Target' column
(F6.2b) Why do you not have target(s) for increasing sustainable production and/or consumption of your disclosed commodity(ies) and what are your plans to develop these in the future?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No’ in response to F6.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle C2: Verifiable actions and timebound targets
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- We are planning to introduce a target in the next two years
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Traceability
(F6.3) Do you have traceability system(s) in place to track and monitor the origin of your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Do you have system(s) in place?
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
|
(F6.3a) Provide details on the level of traceability your organization has for your disclosed commodity(ies).
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.3.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Modified guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
% of total production/consumption volume traceable
|
Point to which commodity is traceable
|
Description of traceability system
|
Exclusions
|
Description of exclusion
|
Select from: List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Yes’ in F6.3
|
Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
|
Select from:
- Country
- Region
- Province
- Farm *
- Breeding farm††
- Rearing farm††
- Finishing farm††
- Mill **
- Plantation**
- Forest***
- Forest management unit ***
- Crushing facility†
- Tannery††
- Slaughterhouse††
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
Select all that apply:
- Source/ country/ geographical area
- Business activity
- Facility
- Specific product line(s)
- Specific supplier(s)
- Not applicable
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
* Not shown for Timber
** Not shown for Cattle Products
*** Shown for Timber only
†Shown for Palm Oil and Soy only
†† Shown for Cattle Products only
(F6.3b) Why do you not have system(s) in place to track and monitor the origin of your disclosed commodity(ies) and what are your plans to develop these in the future?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No’ in response to F6.3.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘No’ in F6.3
|
Select from:
- We are planning to track and monitor the origin of forest risk commodities within the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
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Certification and sustainability standards
(F6.4) Do you specify any third-party certification schemes for your disclosed commodity(ies)? Indicate the volume and percentage of your production and/or consumption covered.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Do you specify any certification scheme?
|
Certification coverage
|
Third-party certification scheme
|
% of total production/ consumption volume certified
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Production volume
- Consumption volume
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Numerical field [enter a number from
0-100]
|
Form of commodity | Volume of production/consumption certified | Metric | Please explain |
---|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Select from:
- Metric tons
- Liters
- Gallons
- Round wood equivalent (RWE)
- Wood raw material equivalent (WRME)
- Cubic meters
- Square meters
- Other, please specify
| Text field [maximum 2,400 characters] |
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Third-party certification scheme (column 4)
Timber:
- FSC Forest Management certification
- FSC Chain of Custody
- FSC Controlled Wood
- FSC Group certification
- FSC SMLIF (small or low-intensity managed forest)
- FSC Recycled
- PEFC Sustainable Forest Management certification
- PEFC Chain of Custody
- PEFC Project Chain of Custody
- PEFC Group certification
- SFI Forest Management certification
- SFI Chain of Custody
- SFI Fiber Sourcing certification
- RA SmartWood
- RA SmartLogging
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z809
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z804
- Australian Forest Standard (AS 4708)
- Australian Chain of Custody Standard (AS 4707)
- American Forest Foundation Tree Farm System
- Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council (SGEC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
Palm Oil*:
- RSPO producer/grower certification
- RSPO Identity Preserved
- RSPO Segregated
- RSPO Mass Balance
- RSPO Book and Claim
- RSPO Next
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- RA Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) standard
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
|
Cattle Products*:
- RA SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
- RA SAN Chain of Custody
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
Soy*:
- RTRS Chain of Custody
- RTRS Standard for Responsible Soy Production
- RTRS certificate trading
- ProTerra certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
|
*Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
Form of commodity covered (column 6)
Timber:
- Hardwood logs
- Softwood logs
- Sawn timber, veneer, chips
- Unprocessed wood fiber
- Pulp
- Paper
- Boards, plywood, engineered wood
- Primary packaging
- Secondary packaging
- Tertiary packaging
- Cellulose-based textile fiber
- Wood-based bioenergy
- Goods not for resale (GNFR)
Palm Oil*:
- Palm oil fruit
- Crude palm oil (CPO)
- Crude palm kernel oil (CPKO)
- Palm kernel meal (PKM)
- Refined palm oil
- Palm oil derivatives
- Palm kernel oil derivatives
- Palm biodiesel
|
Cattle Products*:
- Cattle
- Tallow
- Beef
- By-products (e.g. glycerin, gelatin)
- Hides/ leather
- Tallow biodiesel
Soy*:
- Whole soy beans
- Soy bean oil
- Soy bean meal
- Soy derivatives
- Soy biodiesel
|
* Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
(F6.5) Do you specify any sustainable production/procurement standards for your disclosed commodity(ies), other than third-party certification? Indicate the percentage of production/consumption covered and if you monitor supplier compliance with these standards.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Do you specify any sustainability standards?
|
Type of standard
|
Description of standard
|
% of total commodity volume covered by standard
|
Select from: List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No
- No standard other than third-party certification
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Select from:
- Production*
- Procurement**
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select from:
- <10%
- 10-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
|
Do you have a system in place to monitor compliance with this standard? | Type(s) of monitoring system*** | % of suppliers in compliance with standards† | Please explain |
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Select from:
| Select all that apply:
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Ground-based monitoring system
- Aerial monitoring system
- First-party auditing
- Second-party auditing
- Third-party auditing
- Other, please specify
| Select from:
- <10%
- 10-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
| Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add Row]
*Only appears if you select ‘Production‘ in question F0.4.
**Only appears if you select ‘Processing‘, ‘Trading‘, ‘Manufacturing‘ or ‘Retailing’ in question F0.4.
***Column only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in column 6 (Do you have a system...?).
†Column only appears if you select ‘Procurement‘ in column 3 (Type of standard).
Engagement
(F6.6) Are you working with smallholders to encourage and support best practices that aim to reduce or remove deforestation/forest degradation?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Production‘, ‘Processing’ and/or ‘Trading’ in response to F0.4.
Change from 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Are you working with smallholders?
|
Smallholders engagement approach*
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Yes, working with smallholders
- No, not working with smallholders
- Not applicable
|
Select all that apply:
- Providing direct
training to farmers
- Engaging with local institutions
- Providing agricultural inputs
- Offering financial incentives
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
*Column only appears if you select ‘Yes, working with smallholders’ in column 2 (Are you working with smallholders?)
(F6.7) Are you working with your direct suppliers to support and improve their capacity to supply sustainable raw materials?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Processing’, ‘Trading’, ‘Manufacturing’ and/or ‘Retailing’ in response to F0.4.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Are you working with direct suppliers?
|
Supplier engagement approach
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Yes, working with direct suppliers
- No, not working with direct suppliers
- Not applicable
|
Select all that apply:
- Developing or distributing supply chain mapping tool
- Collecting data in central database
- Encouraging certification
- Encouraging work with multi-stakeholder groups
- Supplier questionnaires on environmental and social indicators
- Workshops and training
- Supplier audits
- Supplier charters
- Contractual agreements
- Joint projects
- Financial support
- Technical support
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters] |
(F6.8) Are you working beyond your first-tier supplier(s) to manage and mitigate forests-related risks?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Manufacturing' and/or ‘Retailing’ in response to F0.4.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Are you working beyond first tier?
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- Yes, working beyond first tier
- No, not working beyond the first tier
- Not applicable
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
(F6.9) Do you participate in external initiatives or activities to further the implementation of your policies concerning the sustainability of your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Do you participate in activities/initiatives?
|
Activities
|
Initiatives*
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Involved in multi-partnership or stakeholder initiatives
- Engaging with policymakers or governments
- Involved in industry platforms
- Engaging with communities
- Engaging with non-governmental organizations
- Funding research organizations
- Other, please specify
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add Row]
* Only shown if ‘Involved in multi-partnership or stakeholder initiatives' is selected in previous column.
Initiatives (column 4)
General
- UN Global Compact
- Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 (TFA)
- Natural Capital Coalition
- The Consumer Good Forum (CGF)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Other, please specify
Timber
- FSC
- PEFC
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
- EU Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC)
- WBCSD Forests Solutions Group
Palm Oil**
- Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
- Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG)
- High Carbon Stock Approach Steering Group
- International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP)
| Cattle Products**
- Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB)
- Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock (GTPS)
- Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI)
- Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC)
Soy**
- Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (RTRS)
- Sustainable Agricultural Initiative (SAI)
|
** Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
F7 Linkages and trade-offs
Linkages and trade-offs
(F7.1) Has your organization identified any linkages or trade-offs between forests and other environmental issues in its direct operations and/or other parts of its value chain?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F7.1a) Describe the linkages or trade-offs and the related management policy or action.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F7.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
Response options
Please
complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
Linkage/tradeoff
|
Type of linkage/tradeoff
|
Description of linkage/tradeoff
|
Policy or action
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
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Type of linkage/tradeoff (column 2)
Linkages
- Decreased GHGs emissions
- Increased carbon sequestration
- Disaster risk reduction
- Soil conservation
- Improved water supply
- Increased water quality
- Water flow regulation
- Other linkage, please specify
| Tradeoffs- Increased GHGs emissions
- Reduced water supply
- Reduced water quality
- Reduced groundwater recharge
- Soil degradation
- Other tradeoff, please specify
|
(F7.1b) Why has your organization not identified any linkages or trade-offs between forests and other environmental issues?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No' in response to F7.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Comment
|
Select from:
- Considered – none were identified
- Not considered – but have plans to do so in the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
F8 Verification
Verification
(F8.1) Do you verify any forests information reported in your CDP disclosure?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- In progress
- No, but we are actively considering verifying in the next two years
- No, we are waiting for more mature verification standards/processes
- No, we do not verify any forests-related information reported in our CDP disclosure, and there are no plans to do so
(F8.1a) Which data points within your CDP disclosure have been
verified, and which standards were used?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F8.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please
complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
Disclosure module
|
Data points verified
|
Verification standard
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- F0. Introduction
- F1.
Current state
- F2. Procedures
- F3. Risks and opportunities
- F4. Governance
- F5. Strategy
- F6. Implementation
- SF. Supply chain module
- Other,
please specify
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
F9 Barriers and challenges
Barriers and challenges
(F9.1) Describe the key barriers or challenges to avoiding forests-related risks in your direct operations or in other parts of your value chain.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Coverage
|
Primary barrier/challenge type
|
Comment
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
|
Select from:
- Supply chain complexity
- Limited availability of certified materials
- Limited access to certified materials
- Limited public awareness and/or market demand
- Inexistent or immature certification standards
- Cost and/or complexity of certification requirements
- Cost of sustainably produced/certified products
- Limited supply chain engagement
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(F9.2) Describe the main measures that would improve your organization’s ability to manage forests-related risks.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Coverage
|
Main measure
|
Comment
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
|
Select from:
- Improved data collection and quality
- Greater transparency
- Greater supplier awareness/engagement
- Greater customer awareness
- Increased demand for certified products
- Greater stakeholder engagement and collaboration
- Increased knowledge on commodity driven deforestation and forest degradation
- Investment in monitoring tools and traceability systems
- Incentives to produce sustainable raw materials
- Reduced cost of certified materials
- Reduced cost of certification
- Development of certification and sustainability standards
- Greater enforcement of regulations
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add Row]
F18 Signoff
Further information
(F-FI) Use this field to provide any additional information or context that you feel is relevant to your organization’s response. Please note that this field is optional and is not scored.
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 9,999 characters.
When copying from another document to the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
Note
- Click the “File upload” button (paperclip icon) to drag and drop a file if you want to attach one.
Signoff
(F18.1) Provide the following information for the person that has signed off (approved) your CDP forests response.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Job title
|
Corresponding job category
|
Text field [maximum 200 characters]
|
Select from:
- Board Chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Business unit manager
- Energy manager
- Environmental, Health and Safety manager
- Environment/Sustainability manager
- Facilities manager
- Process operation manager
- Procurement manager
- Public affairs manager
- Risk manager
- Other, please specify
|
SF Supply chain
Supply chain introduction
(SF0.1) What is your organization's annual revenue for the reporting period?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Annual revenue |
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places] |
(SF0.2) Do you have an ISIN for your organization that you are willing to share with CDP?
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(SF0.2a) Please share your ISIN in the table below.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to SF0.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
ISIN country code
|
ISIN numeric identifier (including single check digit)
|
Text field [maximum two characters] |
Text field [maximum 10 characters using no decimal places] |
Certified volume sold
(SF1.1) On F6.4 you were asked “Do
you specify any third-party certification schemes for your disclosed
commodity(ies)? Indicate the volume and percentage of your production
and/or consumption covered”. Can you also indicate, for each of your disclosed commodity(ies), the percentage of certified volume sold to each requesting CDP supply chain member?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- Partially
- Don’t know
- No
- No requesting members purchase goods and services from my company that contain forest risk commodities
(SF1.1a) For each of your requesting CDP supply chain members, indicate the percentage of certified volume sold per disclosed commodity(ies).
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' or 'Partially' in response to SF1.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Requesting member
|
Forest risk commodity
|
Form of commodity
|
Third-party certification scheme
|
Total volume of commodity sold to member
|
Metric
|
What % of the volume reported in column 5 is certified?
|
Comment
|
Select from:
[CRM list of members]
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Metric tons
- Spend
- Liters
- Gallons
- Round wood equivalent (RWE)
- Wood raw material equivalent (WRME)
- Cubic meters
- Square meters
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- <10%
- 10-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Form of commodity (column 3)
Timber:
- Hardwood logs
- Softwood logs
- Sawn timber, veneer, chips
- Unprocessed wood fiber
- Pulp
- Paper
- Boards, plywood, engineered wood
- Primary packaging
- Secondary packaging
- Tertiary packaging
- Cellulose-based textile fiber
- Wood-based bioenergy
- Goods not for resale (GNFR)
Palm oil:
- Palm oil fruit
- Crude palm oil (CPO)
- Crude palm kernel oil (CPKO)
- Palm kernel meal (PKM)
- Refined palm oil
- Palm oil derivatives
- Palm kernel oil derivatives
- Palm biodiesel
|
Cattle Products:
- Cattle
- Tallow
- Beef
- By-products (e.g. glycerin, gelatin)
- Hides/ leather
- Tallow biodiesel
Soy:
- Whole soy beans
- Soy bean oil
- Soy bean meal
- Soy derivatives
- Soy biodiesel
|
Third-party certification scheme (column 4)
Timber:
- FSC Forest Management certification
- FSC Chain of Custody
- FSC Controlled Wood
- FSC Group certification
- FSC SMLIF (small or low-intensity managed forest)
- FSC Recycled
- PEFC Sustainable Forest Management certification
- PEFC Chain of Custody
- PEFC Project Chain of Custody
- PEFC Group certification
- SFI Forest Management certification
- SFI Chain of Custody
- SFI Fiber Sourcing certification
- RA SmartWood
- RA SmartLogging
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z809
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z804
- Australian Forest Standard (AS 4708)
- Australian Chain of Custody Standard (AS 4707)
- American Forest Foundation Tree Farm System
- Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council (SGEC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
Palm Oil:
- RSPO producer/grower certification
- RSPO Identity Preserved
- RSPO Segregated
- RSPO Mass Balance
- RSPO Book and Claim
- RSPO Next
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- RA Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) standard
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
| Cattle Products:
- RA SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
- RA SAN Chain of Custody
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
Soy:
- RTRS Chain of Custody
- RTRS Standard for Responsible Soy Production
- RTRS certificate trading
- ProTerra certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
|
(SF1.1b) Why can you not indicate the percentage of certified volume sold to each of your requesting members? Describe any future plans for adopting and communicating levels of certification to requesting CDP supply chain members.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No', 'Don't know', or 'Partially' in response to SF1.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 2: Risk assessment, supply chain mapping, and traceability
Core Principle 8: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 9: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Requesting member
|
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
[CRM list of members]
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.5
|
Select from:
- In the process of certifying relevant commodities
- We are planning to adopt certification within the next two years and we anticipate being able to provide this information by then
- Insufficient resources to complete collection of data
- No requirement from customers to track certification levels in the past
- Levels of certification are not recorded at the corporate level
- Insufficient data on what is sold to requesting member
- Judged to be unimportant
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add row]
Collaborative opportunities
(SF2.1)
Please propose any mutually beneficial forests-related projects you could collaborate
on with specific CDP supply chain members.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Response options
Please
complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
Requesting member
|
Commodity related to the project
|
Category of project
|
Type of project
|
Estimated timeframe for realization of benefits to customer
|
Details of project
|
Projected outcome
|
Select from:
[CRM list of supply chain members]
|
Select from:
List created from F0.5
|
Select from:
- Certification
- Communications
- Provision of goods and services
- Innovation
- Relationship sustainability assessment
- Traceability and transparency
- Other category, please specify
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- > 6 years
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
Text field
[maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add
Row]
Type of project (column 4)
Certification
- Increase in coverage of commodity certified
- Other certification projects, please specify
Traceability and transparency
- Improvement of existing traceability system
- New traceability system
- Other traceability and transparency projects, please specify
Innovation
- New product or service that reduces customers products / services commodity consumption
- New product or service that has a lower upstream impact on forests
- Implementation of new techniques/technologies to ensure sustainable production
- Other type of innovation projects, please specify
|
Relationship sustainability assessment
- Assessing products or services life cycle to identify efficiencies
- Aligning goals to feed into customers targets and ambitions
- Other relationship sustainability assessment projects, please specify
Provision of goods and services
- Reduced packaging
- Other provision of goods/services projects, please specify
Communications
- Awards – apply for external awards together
- Joint case studies or marketing campaign
- Other communications projects, please specify
Other category:
|
(SF2.2) Have requests or initiatives by CDP supply chain members prompted your
organization to take organizational-level action to reduce or remove deforestation/forest degradation from
your operations or your supply chain?
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 3: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(SF2.2a) Specify the requesting CDP supply chain member(s) that have driven organizational-level action to reduce or remove deforestation/forest degradation from your operations or your supply chain and provide details on how.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to SF2.2
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 3: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 7: External relations, stakeholder engagement, and collective action
Response options
Please
complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
Requesting member
|
Category of project
|
Type of project
|
Description of the project/initiative
|
Give an indication of the metric of success for the initiative
|
Would you be happy for CDP supply chain members to highlight this work in their external communication?
|
Select from:
[CRM list of members]
|
Select from:
- Certification
- Communications
- Provision of goods and services
- Innovation
- Relationship sustainability assessment
- Traceability and transparency
- Policy and commitments
- Other category, please specify
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Select from:
|
[Add Row]
Type of project (column 3)
Certification- Increase in coverage of commodity certified
- Other certification projects, please specify
Traceability and transparency - Improvement of existing traceability system
- New traceability system
- Other traceability and transparency projects, please specify
Innovation - New product or service that reduces customers products / services commodity consumption
- New product or service that has a lower upstream impact on forests
- Implementation of new techniques/technologies to ensure sustainable production
- Other type of innovation projects, please specify
| Relationship sustainability assessment - Assessing products or services life cycle to identify efficiencies
- Aligning goals to feed into customers targets and ambitions
- Other relationship sustainability assessment projects, please specify
Provision of goods and services - Reduced packaging
- Other provision of goods/services projects, please specify
Communications - Awards – apply for external awards together
- Joint case studies or marketing campaign
- Other communications projects, please specify
Policy and commitments
- Setting a public policy
- Make a public commitment
- Other policy and commitments, please specify
Other category: |
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Terms for responding to Investors (2019 Forests)
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2019 to Investors. If you are also submitting a response to Supply Chain Members the Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Forests), below, will also apply.
1.DEFINITIONS
Billing Company: means the organization determined in accordance with the table at the end of these terms.
CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and a company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP and the Billing Company.
Deadline: means 13 September 2019.
Fee: means the fee set out in the table at the end of these terms, which is exclusive of any applicable taxes.
Full version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you.
Minimum version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.
Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified from the data, such as a person’s name and job title.
Questionnaire: means the Full Version and the Minimum Version of the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2019.
Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to the Responding Company.
2.PARTIES
The parties to these terms shall be CDP, the Billing Company (where the Billing Company is not CDP) and the Responding Company.
3.THESE TERMS
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General. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your response can be made public or whether your response is non-public. We strongly encourage you to make your response public.
Deadline for responding. You must submit your response to us using our online response system by the Deadline for your response to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in any reports.
Public responses. If you agree that your response can be made public, we may use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), including, for example, making your responses available on our website, to our investor signatories and other third parties and scoring your response.
Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:
(a) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our investor signatories (as listed on our website) either directly or through Bloomberg terminals, for any use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized;
(b) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners:
(i) to score your response; and
(ii) for any other use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized.
Amending your response. You may amend a response that you have submitted at any time before the Deadline. After the Deadline has passed, certain amendments to your response can only be made by our staff and we may charge a fee for making them. Please note that any changes to your response after the Deadline may not be reflected in any score or in any report. Please email [email protected] for more information about amending your response.
Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). If you submit your response to the Full Version in English using our online response system:
(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;
(b) after the Deadline but on or before 30 September 2019 you can request an ‘On-Demand’ score for a fee. Please email [email protected] for more information on On-Demand scoring.
Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your response in a language other than English.
Scoring of responses to the Minimum Version (of the Questionnaire). Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.
Publication and use of scores. If you are responding to a CDP Forests Questionnaire for the first time or have received an On-Demand score, you may choose for your score to be “private” but in all other cases CDP may publish your score, and use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), regardless of whether your response is public or non-public. If you choose for your score to be “private”, unless you achieve an A grade in which case we may make your score public, we may only make it available to our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, in each case for any use within their organizations but not for publication. Note that if you also submit your response to Supply Chain Members it will also be available to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. For further details please see the Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Forests).
5.FEE
Fee. We are a not-for-profit organization and charge certain companies an annual administrative fee to enable us to maintain the disclosure system. Unless you are exempt from paying the Fee, as set out below, if you are listed, incorporated or headquartered in a country/region that is listed in the next paragraph, you are required to pay the Fee plus any applicable taxes. The Fee is payable once regardless of how many responses (climate change, forests and water security) you submit in 2019. Please note that we may charge an additional fee if you want to amend your response after the Deadline or if you submit your response after the Deadline and you would like it to be scored.
Countries/regions where the Fee applies. A Responding Company will be required to pay the Fee if it is listed, incorporated or headquartered in any one of the following countries/regions:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the UK or the USA.
Exemptions from the Fee. A Responding Company is exempt from paying the Fee if:
(a) it falls within one of CDP’s investor samples and it has not submitted a response to CDP in the last three years; or
(b) it is responding only to CDP’s supply chain request.
Please note we will decide in our absolute discretion as to whether the Fee is payable or not and we will notify you before you submit your response. A full list of companies in our investor samples is available on our website.
Payment of the Fee. You must pay the Fee by credit or debit card or request an invoice via CDP’s online corporate dashboard, which must be paid within such time as set out in the invoice. Please note that you will not be able to submit your response unless you have paid the Fee, you have requested an invoice or you are exempt from paying the Fee.
6.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES
Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your response will be owned by you or your licensors.
License. You grant to us, or shall procure for us, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and global license to use your response and any copyright and data base rights in your response for the uses set out in these terms.
7.IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS
You confirm that:
(a) the person submitting the response to us is authorized by you to submit the response;
(b) you have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit the response to us; and
(c) the response that you submit:
(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);
(ii) does not defame any third party; and
(iii) does not include any Personal Data.
8.LIABILITY
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
We are not liable for business losses. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances arising from the content or submission of your response to us, our use of your response and/or the use of your response by any third parties.
Limitation of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company’s total liability to you in all circumstances shall be limited to an amount equivalent to the Fee or to £625 if you are not required to pay the Fee.
9.GENERAL
We may transfer our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.
Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us unless you also choose to share your response with supply chain members, in which case you will also be subject to our Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Forests).
Variation. CDP (acting on its own behalf and the Billing Company’s behalf, if applicable) reserves the right to change these terms at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. In the event of any materially adverse changes, you may request to withdraw your response within 30 days of us notifying you of the change.
If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and you and us both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation.
Language. If these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail.
10.AMOUNT OF FEE
Location of Responding Company
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Fee (exclusive of any applicable taxes)
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Brazil
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BRL 3,560
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India
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INR 67,000
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Japan
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JPY 97,500
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UK
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GBP 625
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Europe (excluding UK)
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EUR 925
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Rest of the world
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USD 975
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11.BILLING COMPANY
Billing Company | Location of Responding Company |
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CDP Worldwide
| Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom
|
CDP Worldwide (Europe) gGmbH
| Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
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CDP North America, Inc
| Canada, USA
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Carbon Disclosure Project (Latin America)
| Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru
|
Carbon Disclosure Project India
| India
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一般社団法人
CDP Worldwide-Japan
| Japan
|
If the Responding Company is located in a territory that is not listed in the table above, the Billing Company shall be CDP Worldwide.
Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Forests)
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2019 to Supply Chain Members. If you are also submitting a response to Investors the Terms for responding to Investors (2019 Forests), above, will also apply.
1.DEFINITIONS
CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and a company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP.
Deadline: means 13 September 2019.
Full version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you.
Minimum version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.
Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified by such data, such as a person’s name and job title.
Questionnaire: means the Full Version and the Minimum Version of the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2019.
Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to the Responding Company.
Supply Chain Member: means an organization that is requesting data from its suppliers.
2.PARTIES
The parties to these terms shall be CDP and the Responding Company.
3.THESE TERMS
These are the terms that apply when you submit a response to our Questionnaire to Supply Chain Members. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss them with us.
4.RESPONDING TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE
General. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your response can be made public or whether your response is non-public. We strongly encourage you to make your response public, but in either case, we will not divulge the relationship between you and any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond other than to our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, all of which are obliged to keep such relationship confidential.
Deadline for responding. You must submit your response to us using our online response system by the Deadline for your response to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in any reports.
Public responses. If you agree that your response can be made public, we may use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), including, for example, making your responses available on our website, to our investor signatories and other third parties and scoring your response. Note that information you submit within the Supply Chain module (2019 Forests) will be treated as non-public (see below for details).
Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:
(a) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire for any use within their organization but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized;
(b) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our group companies and affiliates, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners:
(i) to score your response; and
(ii) for any other use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized.
Supply Chain module (2019 Forests). Information you submit in response to the Supply Chain module (2019 Forests) (questions SF0, SF1, and SF2 of the Questionnaire) will be treated as non-public even if you choose to make your response public. Questions SF1.1, SF2.1, and SF2.2a ask you to select a Supply Chain Member using a drop-down menu in our online response system, and only the Supply Chain Member you select for each row will have access to the information in it. For all other questions in the Supply Chain module (2019 Forests) the information you submit will be accessible to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. All information you submit in the Supply Chain module (2019 Forests) will be accessible to CDP and to our group companies and affiliates, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, all of which are obliged to keep such information confidential.
Amending your response. You may amend a response that you have submitted at any time before the Deadline. After the Deadline has passed, certain amendments to your response can only be made by our staff and we may charge a fee. Please note that any changes that you make to your response after the Deadline may not be reflected in any score or in any report. Please email [email protected] for more information about amending your response.
Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). If you submit your response to the Full Version in English using our online response system:
(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;
(b) after the Deadline but on or before 30 September 2019 you can request an ‘On-Demand’ score for a fee. Please email [email protected] for more information on On-Demand scoring.
Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your response in a language other than English.
Scoring of responses to the Minimum Version (of the Questionnaire). Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.
Publication of scores. Unless you achieve an A grade, in which case we may make your score public, we may only make your score available to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire, our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, in each case for any use within their organizations but not for publication.
5.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES
Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your response will be owned by you or your licensors.
License. You grant to us, or shall procure for us, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and global license to use your response and any copyright and data base rights in your response for the uses set out in these terms.
6.IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS
You confirm that:
(a) the person submitting the response to us is authorized by you to submit the response;
(b) you have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit the response to us; and
(c) the response that you submit:
(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);
(ii) does not defame any third party; and
(iii) does not include any Personal Data.
7.LIABILITY
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
We are not liable for business losses. Subject to these terms, CDP has no liability to you in any circumstances for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP has no liability to you in any circumstances arising from the content or submission of your response to us, our use of your response and/or the use of your response by any third parties.
Limitation of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP’s total liability to you in all circumstances shall be limited to £625.
8.GENERAL
We may transfer our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.
Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us, unless you also choose to share your response with investors in which case you will also be subject to our Terms for responding to Investors (2019 Forests).
Variation. CDP reserves the right to change these terms at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. In the event of any materially adverse changes, you may request to withdraw your response within 30 days of us notifying you of the change.
If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and you and us both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation.
Language. If these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail.
About CDP
CDP is an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests.
Voted number one climate research provider by investors and working with institutional investors with assets of US$96 trillion, we leverage investor and buyer power to motivate companies to disclose and manage their environmental impacts.
Over 7,000 companies with some 50% of global market capitalization disclosed environmental data through CDP in 2018. This is in addition to the over 750 cities, states and regions who disclosed, making CDP’s platform one of the richest sources of information globally on how companies and governments are driving environmental change. CDP, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, is a founding member of the We Mean Business Coalition. Please visit www.cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.
What is the legal status of CDP?
CDP Worldwide (CDP) is a UK Registered Charity no. 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England no. 05013650. The charity has wholly owned subsidiaries in Germany and China and companies in Australia, Brazil and India over which it exercises control through majority Board representation. In the US, CDP North America, Inc. is an independently incorporated affiliate which has United States IRS 501(c)(3) charitable status.
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