A year in review Economic / Governance Environment Social Appendix Key partnerships Why we engage The International Organization of the Flavor Industry (IOFI) is SAI Platform Our synthetics and Indirect Materials & Services (IM&S) the global association representing the industry that creates, What it is categories are integrated into the Sourcing4Good programme produces and sells flavourings worldwide. With regional and Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (SAI Platform) is one through our membership of TfS. Because existing activities within national associations and major global companies as members, of the primary global food & drink value chain initiatives for that organisation are focused on the sustainability performance IOFI interacts with relevant stakeholders around the world. sustainable agriculture. and improvement of the related supply chains, many of which we IOFI supports the safety and proper use of flavourings and source from, it makes sense for us to benefit from and contribute helps members identify and address global challenges. It is a non-profit network that brings together more than to this organisation through the assessment and auditing of our 130 member companies and organisations leading the way in selected synthetics or IM&S suppliers. A Sustainability Committee has been instituted by IFRA and sustainable agriculture worldwide. This includes farmer IOFI as an effort to show F & F industries’ sense of responsibility cooperatives, manufacturers, processors, retailers and traders. How we engage and commitment to making a difference. They launched a SAI Platform provides the tools and network for the members Givaudan has nominated a “TfS Coordinator” whose responsibility Sustainability Charter covering five Focus Areas around the to advance their programmes on sustainable agriculture. is to ensure that the different stakeholders within our organisation flavour and fragrance value chain and 17 specific Commitments. are made aware of the tools and activities within TfS and of how The Charter aims to complement individual company Why we engage to maximise our membership. Our Head of Global Procurement sustainability programmes, helping the industry as a whole to SAI Platform tools help us make progress on sustainable and Sustainability is also heavily involved in the organisation from make advances in sustainability by sharing best practices and agriculture with our suppliers. This platform also allows us to a steering committee perspective. In addition to the Coordinator benchmarking progress. develop expertise and interact with our peers, both customers role, representatives from Procurement and Sustainability are also and our suppliers, in this journey, involved in the different TfS workstreams such as audit, Why we engage assessment and scope 3. As we move forward and integrate the IFRA and IOFI form an industry body in which some projects are How we engage sustainability performance management of our suppliers using temporary and other forums are permanent. Of those that have Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) by SAI Platform is our the tools of TfS (e.g., EcoVadis and third-party audits), direct a link to sustainability, there are several temporary workshops/ standard protocol for assessing and verifying our suppliers at involvement of Procurement will increase. projects. Of interest for the programme, permanent groups farm level. We are also an active member of SAI Dairy Working tfs-initiative.com include the Scientific Committee (SC), the Regulatory Affairs and Group as we understood this to be the platform for Advisory Committee (RAAC), the EH&S Committee, the contributing to a more sustainable dairy sector: by partnering Communication Working Group (CWG), the Green TF (not active with other companies in this industry, we can contribute to IFRA – IOFI Sustainability Task Force the last year), the Environmental Task Force as a subset of the finding solutions for common issues that are not only specific What it is SC (ETF) and the Sustainability Committee. to Givaudan. Together with the industry’s scientific centre RIFM (the Research saiplatform.org Institute for Fragrance Materials), the International Fragrance How we engage Association (IFRA) team endeavours to ensure that the usage Fragrances and Flavours houses nominate their board standards for fragrance materials are put into practice according members for the boards and RAPS, EHS, sustainability and to the available scientific recommendations and that member responsible sourcing team members for technical Committees. companies comply with those standards. This voluntary ifra-iofi.org approach enables the IFRA standards to be adopted rapidly by fragrance houses worldwide and by the industry as a whole. 24 Givaudan — 2021 GRI Sustainability Report