A year in review Economic / Governance Environment Social Appendix Biodiversity Disclosure 304 – 3 Caura basin in Venezuela. The local communities are part of a 5. French Alliance pour la Préservation des Forêts Habitats protected or restored conservation agreement by which they receive support and Since 2013, Givaudan has been a member of APF, a food sector Our best practices approach from field to process has inspired guidance on techniques for the handling and selling of beans. initiative that addresses the challenge of deforestation and initiatives to preserve biodiversity in different areas and they In exchange, they commit to actions preserving the flora and ecosystem conversion within raw material supply chains. have resulted in significant improvement. Work with our the fauna of their ecosystem. They patrol the 150,000 hectares Missions of APF include communicating issues associated with suppliers on our sourcing policy, appropriate land use and of the conservation area and control the expansion of the deforestation and development within the concerned sectors; good agricultural, collection and process practices have agricultural frontier in the forest. They also survey several serving as a platform for interaction and collaboration between contributed to this progress as have biodiversity enhancing animal species such as the American tapir, jaguar, or private players and other stakeholders and, finally, supporting programmes in specific and prioritised supply chains as spectacled caiman because they serve as key indicators of the its members in the practical implementation of their detailed below by core topic. ecosystem’s health. commitments by facilitating the pooling of tools and the conciliation of approaches both up- and downstream. Promoting good agricultural and collection practices 2. Palm oil position statement We have dedicated projects in materials such as patchouli, In 2020, we introduced our palm position statement in which, Supporting the conservation of diversity of species turmeric, guarana and jasmine that include training in good among other things, we emphasise our commitment to non- We have been collaborating for about a decade with the agricultural practices, safe plant protection measures and deforestation, including “No Deforestation, No Peat, No University of California, Riverside (UCR) to support the care compost management. Such projects have an impact on Exploitation (NDPE)” principles. We are also co-funding and preservation of one of the world’s most extensive, unique several thousand smallholders. projects targeting sustainability issues at the beginning of our and diverse citrus collections from the impending threat of palm supply chains in Indonesia and Malaysia in collaboration citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing, or HLB. Domestication of wild resources to with Earthworm Foundation and other companies. The collection includes 1,000 varieties of citrus fruits from mitigate our impact around the globe. The Agronomy department works on the cultivation of raw 3. Dairy Working Group materials generally taken from the wild such as rosemary, To best cover our cheese and butter supply chains, we are reducing our impact and ensuring good cultivation practices. members of the SAI Platform’s Dairy Working Group and so collaborate with dairy supply chain actors. This includes Addressing deforestation and ecosystem Givaudan, as well as some of our suppliers and customers. This conversion year, this group has launched the SDP, which is an approach Most biodiversity loss is taking place in tropical forests, that buyers will use to ask suppliers to report on their progress including rainforests. We address specific issues of biodiversity in sustainability at farm level. This SDP covers multiple preservation such as those related to deforestation through a sustainability topics including deforestation. number of approaches. 4. Preserving natural resources through efficient process 1. Forest conservation with tonka bean collectors We continued work on reducing fuelwood consumption and The Givaudan Foundation, through an agreement with replanting fuelwood trees in the distillation of key ingredients Conservation International, supports a programme aimed at such as ylang ylang and patchouli. improving local livelihoods and protecting the forest in the 77 Givaudan — 2021 GRI Sustainability Report