Skretting Sustainability Report 2022

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Stakeholder engagement and governance

We believe that engaging with internal and external stakeholders is key to ensuring we invest the right focus and effort in continuous improvement and dealing with the complex issues that face the future of sustainable food.

Our stakeholders

Through active conversations with several stakeholder groups, we benefit from their diverse perspectives as we explore our solutions. We identify our stakeholders as any group or individual that Nutreco and Skretting affects through our activities, products and services or who, in turn, may affect Nutreco’s ability to achieve its goals.

Using this definition, we recognise six main stakeholder groups: Employees, government, external platforms for specific sustainability topics, food retail and services, academia and NGOs.

Governance

Nutreco’s Sustainability function is led by the company’s CEO. The Corporate Sustainability Director reports to the CEO and chairs the Nutreco Sustainability Platform (NSP). The NSP is where the sustainability aspects of our strategy are developed, and where sustainability issues are addressed. It is made up of five individuals, three of whom represent the businesses.

The functional directors in the Trouw Nutrition and Skretting business lines are responsible for the implementation of sustainability activities aimed at achieving the targets set out in RoadMap 2025, working with teams in our businesses throughout the world.

Nutreco Corporate Sustainability Governance table

Double materiality

In anticipation of the sustainability reporting requirements outlined in the EU Directive in the CSRD, which will be in force for disclosures related to 2024, Nutreco decided in 2022 to move forward and perform a materiality assessment taking into account the double materiality principle. Double materiality in reporting accounts not only for how a company affects the environment and society, but also how the environment and society impact the company’s financial value. A sustainability topic meets the criteria of double materiality if it is material from the impact perspective (inside-out) and from the f inancial perspective (outside-in).

Through the double materiality assessment in 2022, we identified key internal and external stakeholders to engage in the different phases of the assessment. We considered a broad representation across geography, business line and relationship with Nutreco in order to reflect diverse internal and stakeholder perspectives through the process. We gathered input from these internal and external stakeholders about their prioritisation of sustainability topics through in-depth interviews and workshops.

In line with the double materiality principles, our discussion with stakeholders focused on both the impact and financial perspective of each topic. We identified the following highly material topics for Nutreco:

  • Efficient use of resources in animal nutrition
  • Animal health and AMR
  • Climate change
  • Product quality and safety
  • Circular novel and responsible raw materials
  • Biodiversity and ecosystems
  • Business ethics and transparency
  • Resilience to economic and political volatility

The results of our materiality assessment further confirm the areas of focus in our RoadMap 2025. In 2023, we will further implement the insights of our double materiality assessment into our 2025 RoadMap and sustainability strategy.