In 2021, we performed a “materiality refresh” to determine whether these 14 areas still reflect Nutreco’s most material sustainability topics. We found that, overall, the 14 topics were still seen as material.
To narrow our focus, we started the refresh exercise with all 14 material issues and then eliminated the issues that were considered highly material but are covered by other corporate departments, for example, health and safety, product safety and business integrity. Of the six remaining material topics covered by the sustainability department, animal welfare and natural resource scarcity were not considered highly material by the participating materiality stakeholders. It was notable that climate change was also missing from the original list. This was mostly attributed to the issue being misinterpreted by our stakeholders in the original materiality assessment.