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Blueprint of an integrated questionnaire for the Food
Beverage and Agriculture (FBA) sector
Consultation document
This document offers a blueprint for an integrated questionnaire for organizations that rely on
naturally occurring ‘inputs’ or natural capital for products and/or services (including textiles
and apparel) related to food, beverages and agriculture. Revenues, operational and capital
costs, and asset value across the value chain of this business sector can be affected by
changes in the state of natural capital, and their production and procurement practices may
equally have a significant impact on environmental resources1 as well as contribute to
important issues like global food security.
The aim of an integrated questionnaire for the FBA sector is to promote environmentally
sustainable food, beverage and agriculture value chains. This encompasses promoting
sustainable production, manufacturing and procurement, distribution and retail/consumption
practices. The intention is to motivate companies to adopt more holistic impact reduction
strategies across several environmental themes viewed through a business risk
management lens. Using this approach, CDP will aim:
 To reduce emissions from relevant sources and promote climate change adaptation;
 To remove deforestation and forest degradation ; and
 To eliminate the negative effects of water use and promote company participation in
integrated water resource management (IWRM).
How and when will this work be taken forward?
Comments on this blueprint are requested from all stakeholders between 1 September and
21 September 2015. Once the consultation period is over, CDP will review the comments.
Please note the proposals presented in this document are not final, therefore do not reflect
the exact questions or changes that will form any final integrated FBA questionnaire.
Any implementation of a new approach will be dependent on funding as well as the
development of a CDP’s Online Response System. CDP is taking this opportunity to explore
approaches to integration and reach a consensus on the future of this work. Should the
consultation reveal that an integrated approach is meaningful for the FBA sector, plans to roll
out this work will not be implemented before 2017.
Please note: CDP does not currently have funding to implement an integrated
questionnaire for the FBA sector. Feedback from consultation on this blueprint is
intended to underpin future funding proposals as well help focus further research for
this business sector.
Feedback is requested through the online feedback form that accompanies this document.
To access the feedback form, please copy and paste the following URL into a new window in
your browser: http://goo.gl/forms/ZRFI7dVL2W
For reference you may wish to access the 2015 version of the climate change, water and
forests questionnaire:
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For more information, see https://www.cdp.net/Documents/technical/2015/FBA-dependency-andimpacts.pdf
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Click here to view the 2015 climate change questionnaire
Click here to view the 2015 water questionnaire
Click here to view the 2015 forests questionnaire
We invite comment on the blueprint and specific questions detailed in this consultation
document from:
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Investors and financial analysts;
FBA organizations responding to CDP;
Data aggregators and providers;
NGOs and governmental bodies working on related issues;
CDP’s service partners2.
Why would FBA companies want to provide feedback on this approach?
In 2014, over 700 companies received more than one investor-led information request from
CDP. CDP’s investor-led programs are currently targeting 440 companies in the FBT & food
retail industries - 137 food retail companies and 303 FBT companies (excluding selfselecting companies3). Out of these 440 companies, 326 are asked to report on climate
change, 240 on forests, and 146 on water in 2014.
Companies participating in the FBA pilot earlier this year expressed concerns over
expanding into other areas of natural capital without re-evaluating how current CDP
information requests can be better aligned to reduce reporting burden for their sector. This
consultation is an opportunity for companies to positively influence how CDP takes this work
forward early on.
Why would investors want to provide feedback on this approach?
As an important CDP stakeholder we are keen to hear feedback from all investor signatories
during our annual public consultation process. We would welcome information on whether
our proposed approach to collating data for this important business sector would provide
relevant data to assess and manage your portfolio risk.
What are we hoping to achieve through this consultation?
The aim of the development of an integrated approach for the FBA sector is to evaluate
whether it is possible to create a questionnaire that achieves our overall aim plus an
appropriate balance between the guiding principles listed above. Specifically, the public
consultation will seek to ascertain:
 Whether it is meaningful to collect this information through a single information
request;
 How to balance promoting integrated thinking with collecting data that is granular
enough to be of value to data users; and
 If an integrated approach is a viable way forward for CDP’s sector strategy.
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CDP works with accredited service providers to deliver operational benefits to responding
companies.
3 Self-selecting companies are companies who choose to respond to CDP questionnaires rather than
being requested by an authority e.g. investor or customer.
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Introduction and summary of changes
Between November 2014 and February 2015, CDP undertook a pilot with companies in the
food, beverage and agriculture (FBA) value chain as a part of a project to explore the
implementation of CDP’s sector strategy. The aim was to investigate whether CDP should
expand its current coverage by considering aspects of natural capital beyond climate
change, water and forests for companies in a bid to deepen our understanding of this
sector’s interaction with the environment. As companies in this sector receive CDP’s climate
change, water and forests information requests, as well as the request to disclose
information through the food beverage and tobacco (FBT) climate change module, a related
aim of the pilot was to assess how duplication and repetition through multiple questionnaires
could be reduced for this sector in future.
The feedback received from the pilot revealed that while additional areas of natural capital,
such as biodiversity and soil, are highly relevant to companies in this sector, understanding
how to collect the most relevant information across environmental issues without increasing
reporting burden is key to moving ahead with a sector specific approach. Therefore, CDP is
exploring the integration of the climate change, water and forests questionnaires for FBA
companies in the second phase of the project.
The work on integration for this sector is guided by the following principles:
 Relevance: Increasing relevance of questions to companies, and data to investors;
 Encourage integrated thinking and action: Highlighting linkages between
environmental themes and encourage integrated thinking and action;
 Meaningful data and assessment: Collecting data that is granular enough to
provide the insight stakeholders require and assesses companies in a meaningful
way;
 Make it easier to disclose: Reducing the reporting burden on companies.
Challenges in creating an integrated CDP questionnaire
There are several challenges associated with creating an integrated questionnaire for the
FBA sector. These are outlined below with possible solutions suggested that have been
adopted within the blueprint presented. Please keep these in mind while reviewing the
blueprint and consider your feedback within the context of these challenges.
1. Global versus local data collation: One of the challenges that must be addressed within
the context of an integrated questionnaire for the FBA sector is the scale of the three
environmental areas CDP collects information on – climate change, deforestation, and
water security – and how to collate material information for all three areas without
introducing reporting burden.
The approach taken has been to consider the value of corporate level information versus
local information for each stage of an organization’s value chain and how each type of
information will catalyze the behavior we wish to promote. At different sections of the
integrated questionnaire we should aim to balance the need for specific local information
(for example for risk and response reporting) with a corporate level narrative which is
sufficient in response. This approach should assist CDP in collecting relevant information
that is useful for decision-making by investors, policy-makers and other data users.
2. Relationship between environmental areas covered by CDP: In order to integrate the
three environmental issues CDP currently focuses on, it is important and useful to
understand their relationship within the context of the FBA sector. This will help determine
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key data points from our climate change, water, and deforestation datasets that will help
to drive sustainable practices and behavior from organizations. For example, land use,
land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) is a key driver of GHG emissions, and also
depends both on water and has significant impacts on water. Also, watershed
management and protection, including sustainable forest management, can be key to
managing GHG emissions and water impacts in FBA value chains.
For this reason, leading questions in each module should generally be kept broad and not
linked to one specific environmental theme allowing organizations to tell an integrated
narrative, for example about their risk assessment procedures, or how they have
responded to inter-related environmental risks. CDP acknowledges that more specific
narratives and metrics per environmental theme will still be required in some
sections of the questionnaire to provide meaningful data and these will be
introduced based on the stages of the value chain that are relevant to each
organization (please see blueprint below for illustration).
3. Consolidating multiple questionnaires: Within the context of each environmental theme
(climate change, water security and deforestation), CDP currently requests a large
number of detailed data points that may be necessary to assess performance within that
environmental theme in isolation. However, in order to integrate these themes we must
prioritize which data points are key to assess performance within each value chain stage
for the FBA sector. Questions within each area will have to be removed, consolidated, or
simplified to ensure CDP collects the most relevant information, while trying to minimize
reporting burden. However in our attempts to reduce reporting burden we will always
need to keep sight of our ultimate objective for an integrated questionnaire - to promote
environmentally sustainable food, beverage and agriculture value chains – and will
aim to strike a balance between achieving this and improving the reporting experience for
organizations in this sector.
The role of soft commodity reporting in an integrated FBA questionnaire
Given CDP’s successful approach to corporate reporting on deforestation through forest risk
commodities, it was considered whether FBA companies should be asked to report on the
sustainability of their value chains through a soft commodity lens as this is how companies
could quantify their dependency and impact on natural capital. This approach is used in
CDP’s forests questionnaire, where information is collected through the lens of the four
agricultural/forestry commodities responsible for most deforestation (forest-risk
commodities).
However, because this sector is associated with a wide range of potential business risks and
environmental impacts not necessarily always linked to soft commodities, it has been
decided that linking commodity information to every section of the questionnaire -as applied
in the forests questionnaire- could be too restrictive. Instead, commodity information would
be asked only in relevant parts of the questionnaire. For example to provide information on
actions companies are taking on commodity-driven deforestation, and also to provide
contextual information on the organization such as financial dependencies and exposure to
operational risk. This would allow companies to focus on corporate processes for addressing
inter-related environmental issues, including assessing and reporting risks, governance and
target-setting.
In addition to specific forest-risk commodities, CDP is considering asking companies to
report information (where applicable within different sections of the questionnaire) on a predetermined list of soft commodities that are linked to detrimental impacts related to climate
change and water security- such as wheat, rice, cotton, maize and sugar cane. A study
supported by the European Commission in 2011 concluded that out of 160 crops studied,
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these commodities collectively contribute to 49% of water scarcity and 42% of land resource
stress caused by worldwide crop production.
A pre-determined list of soft4 commodities would be first presented to the organization in the
introduction module (please see question FBA0.5 in the blueprint below for question
example). If any of these commodities are used by the organization, but the organization
chooses not to disclose information on them, they would be requested to provide an
explanation for non-disclosure. This commodity information may be used to pre-populate
further questions. This information would be intended to highlight specific business risks
such as operational risk arising from dependency on particular agricultural commodities, and
drive response strategies linked to these business risks – such as supplier engagement and
certification.
4 Hard commodities are those that are mined, such as gold, steel, and iron, while soft commodities are grown,
or harvested.
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BLUEPRINT FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Figure 1: Blueprint of an integrated CDP questionnaire for the FBA sector incorporating
climate change, water security and deforestation risk
Business risks and
impacts affecting the FBA
sector
Introduction
Current
State
This module will set out the scope of disclosure
and exclusions from disclosure. It will also serve to
pre-select relevant questions throughout the rest of
the integrated questionnaire.
This module will provide more detail to the
disclosure scope being reported helping to
contextualize the information reported in
subsequent sections by asking for measurement
and monitoring metrics for all three CDP
environmental themes where relevant to the value
chain stages selected in the introduction module.
Risk
Assessment
This module focuses on the crucial procedures of
assessing business risk. It allows companies to
report how they assess all inter-related
environmental issues they are reporting on.
Implications
This module builds on the information from the
current state and risk assessment modules to
evaluate the consequences (risks and
opportunities) for an organization related to interconnecting environmental factors e.g. climate
change and water security or land use and water
quality.
Response
This module is intended to provide evidence of
good corporate governance as a proxy for sound
risk management in order to achieve
environmentally sustainable value chains. It
includes information on corporate accountability,
target and policy setting, traceability and
engagement with stakeholders.
Increased company
resilience and
environmentally
sustainable food,
beverage and agriculture
value chains
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Introduction: The introduction module will set out the scope of disclosure providing a
snapshot of the company’s structure, role, and the stages of the value chain which best
represent the organization’s area of operation. It will also serve to pre-select relevant
questions throughout the rest of the integrated questionnaire, depending on the options
chosen in this section.
An organization may also explain why they are excluding parts of their value chain from their
disclosure plus provide the reporting period for their disclosure.
This section is also where companies could report which soft commodities they will be
focusing on in the commodity-specific questions and be asked to report on any commodity
exclusions from their disclosure. Please see the section on The role of soft commodity
reporting in an integrated FBA questionnaire above for further information on the how
commodity information will be captured in this blueprint.
Examples of questions in the introduction module include:
FBA0.1
Please give a general description and introduction to your organization
FBA0.2
Please select the period for which you are reporting
Reporting period
From: [DD/MM/YYYY]
FBA0.3
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To: [DD/MM/YYYY]
Please select the stages of the FBA value chain which best represent your
organization’s area of operation. If your organization is diversified or
vertically integrated, pleases select all that apply.
Production [of raw materials]
Processing
Trading
Manufacturing
Retailing
[This question will drive questions in several subsequent modules, including ‘Current State’,
‘Implications’ and ‘Response’]
FBA0.4
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Are there any parts of your value chain that are excluded from this
disclosure?
Yes
No
If Yes:
FBA0.4a
Please identify the parts of your value chain that are not included in your
disclosure
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FBA0.5
Do you produce or use inputs that contain any of the following
commodities? Please complete the table
Commodity
A list of soft commodities with
relevance to the sector and to
climate change, deforestation
and water security will be
provided, for example:
Produce/use
commodity
Select from:
 Yes
 No
 Don’t
know
Explanation if not disclosing but
produce/use commodity
Text field
Cattle products
Cotton
Maize
Palm oil
Rice
Soy
Sugar
Wheat
Other (please specify)
FBA0.5a
Please confirm which commodities you will be disclosing on
Please note: For the purpose of this consultation, from this point onwards the blueprint only
includes examples of questions to assist with illustration and explanation. These questions
may not be included in the same format or content in any future integrated questionnaire.
This has been done to facilitate feedback on the general approach to an integrated
questionnaire for the FBA sector rather than focus on the draft detail of the questions.
Current State: This module will provide more detail to the disclosure scope being reported,
helping to contextualize the information reported in subsequent sections by requesting
measurement and monitoring metrics for all three CDP environmental themes.
Reporting metrics in this module will be linked to the value chain stages selected in FBA0.3
in the introduction module. The metrics provided will be company-wide and will also include
facility level monitoring and measurement questions that will be separated out based on the
value chain stages selected. To ensure that companies answer the most relevant
questions, an emphasis on where the greatest environmental impact may lie in an
organization’s value chain will determine which metrics are presented to each
organization. These types of metrics would include Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and any
Scope 3 emissions for relevant categories, agriculture, processing and manufacturing,
distribution and consumption/retail as applicable, or water accounting information on water
withdrawals, consumption and discharges etc.
Below are a couple of examples of how this might work:
EXAMPLE 1: Beverage organizations within this business sector might be presented with
questions on Scope 1 & 2 emissions data for their own operations and Scope 3 emissions
from their supply chain. They may also be asked on the level of traceability for the
agricultural commodities used by their organization. However as well as being presented
with water accounting metrics for their direct operations they would also be asked about
water management in their supply chain as this is often where their greatest water footprint
lies.
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EXAMPLE 2: In comparison, an organization whose primary activity is the growing of
agricultural commodities might be asked to report water accounting metrics like water
intensity per crop or irrigation method or management practices to protect irrigation water
sources from contamination of agrochemicals and fertilizers. With regards to emissions, it
will be encouraged to focus on Scope 1 & 2 emissions and include non-CO2 greenhouse
gases from agricultural production where applicable, as well as other relevant value chain
emissions.
For the purpose of this consultation, the business impact questions from this module
have not been detailed in this document. The business impact questions would be
aligned with CDP’s forests and water questions on detrimental impacts already experienced
(i.e. question W1.4 in water questionnaire and question F1.3 in the forest questionnaire).
Risk assessment and procedures: This module focuses on the crucial procedures of
assessing business risk.
An example of a leading question for this module is:
FBA2.1
Please describe your procedures with regard to assessing risks and
opportunities driven by environmental factors
Risk assessment procedure
Text field
Coverage
For example:
 Direct operations
 Supply chain
 Partial direct operations
 Partial supply chain
 Customers
Comment
Text field
Add Row
This question allows companies to report on the processes they use to assess business risk
and how these processes consider environmental issues. With this approach, CDP is aiming
to motivate companies to think more holistically towards ensuring resilience in their value
chain, rather than consider environmental risks in isolation or in relation to one particular
commodity for example. Details of feedback loops between different risk dimensions (e.g.
how does my agricultural practices contribute to both deforestation and protection of local
water resources) could be reported as a narrative with specific information valued by
investors being included in CDP’s guidance document and scoring methodology for
reference.
The subsequent questions for this module would ask for information on frequency of
assessment and geographic scale, how far into the future risks are considered, tools and
methodologies applied (e.g. WRI’s Aqueduct Tool, GFW Commodities, SPOTT, etc.) or why
risks have not been assessed for these inputs, if applicable.
Implications module: This section builds on the information from the current state and risk
assessment sections to evaluate the consequences (risks and opportunities) for the
organization and its stakeholders relating to environmental risk factors.
To encourage more holistic thinking and responses, companies would be asked to identify
and report stand-alone and interrelated risks (e.g. deforestation, soil erosion and/or water
pollution as a result of poor farming practices) that could manifest into a potential business
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impact (e.g. reduced water security for their manufacturing or reduced supply of a particular
commodity). Then companies would be asked to report whether their response strategies
tackle these risks in an integrated fashion or not and why. An example of a leading question
for this module is:
FBA3.1
Have you identified any inherent risks driven by environmental factors
that have the potential to generate a substantive change in your
business operations, revenue or expenditure? Tick all that apply.
Risk
Select all that apply:
 Risks driven by changes in physical parameters
 Risks driven by changes in or lack of regulation
 Reputational risks
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Business
risk driver
Geographic
scale
Location
Relationship
to
commodity if
applicable
Potential
impact
Description
of impact
Timeframe
Direct
operations
/ supply
chain
Likelihood
Magnitude
of impact
Details of
response
strategy
Cost
associated
with
response
strategy
Dropdown
list of risks
For example:
Global
Region
Country
River basin
Forest
(concession)
Farm
Location
coordinates
(where
applicable)
Text box
description
of
commodity
element
Text field
Text field
For
example:
Current
Up to 1
year
1-3 years
4-6 years
> 6 years
Dropdown
list
Dropdown
list
Dropdown
list
Text field
Text field
Mill
Plantation
Forest
management
unit
SAMPLE RISK TABLE
Follow-on questions for the Implications section would follow a similar format to the water, forests and climate change questionnaires and
request information on potential impact, timeframe, likelihood, magnitude, estimated financial implications, management methods, and
management costs (see above). It is important to stress here that CDP would only be requesting information on risks that have the potential to
generate a substantive change in business operations, revenue or expenditure.
Value at risk type metrics e.g. proportion of global revenue linked to the materialization of a business risk would also be considered for inclusion
in this module to help investors to understand an organization’s financial exposure to environmental factors.
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Response module: This section is intended to provide evidence of good corporate
governance as a proxy for sound risk management in order to achieve environmentally
sustainable food, beverage and agriculture value chains. Key data would include:
 Governance & Strategy - Has an organization created systems and developed plans
designed to improve and ensure its resilience to environmental risk?
 Traceability & assurance systems - Does an organization comply with applicable
environmental regulations, benchmarks and standards?
 Targets - Has an organization set appropriate targets (quantitative) or goals
(qualitative) related to sustainable value chains?
 Engagement - do organizations engage with stakeholders when setting targets or
policy in order to achieve sustainable operational, procurement and consumption
practices across their value chain?
Governance & strategy: The Governance and strategy section asks questions on who has
oversight of environmental issues and how these environmental issues influence current and
future business strategy (including growth strategy). It would also aim to understand what
policies and standards are in place that consider environmental issues and whether there
are any challenges to adopting more sustainable practices, for example sustainable
procurement policies for certain product lines.
Examples of questions for this module include:
FBA6.1
Please indicate where in your organization the highest level of
responsibility falls for environmental issues
Highest level of
responsibility
For example:
 Board or individual/subset of the Board or other
committee appointed by
the Board
 Senior Manager/Officer
 Other Manager/Officer
 No individual or
committee with overall
responsibility for
environmental issues
 Other, please specify
Name/position
of individual or
committee
Text field
Add rows for multiple answers
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Frequency
of briefing
For
example:
 Schedule
d–
quarterly
 Schedule
d- annual
 Schedule
d – twice
per year
 Schedule
d–
monthly
 Other
please
specify
Nature of
engagement/environmental
issue
For example:
Climate change,
Water security, and/or
Deforestation
FBA6.3
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Are environmentally sustainable practices integrated into your
organization’s business strategy?
Yes
No
FBA6.3
Does your organization have a policy that sets out clear goals and
guidelines for action on the following? Please tick all that apply
Topic
For example:
 Watershed protection
 Reducing deforestation
 Climate change
mitigation
 Sustainable agricultural
commodity sourcing
 Biodiversity
 Other [please specify]
Please explain
FBA6.4
Do you have or expect any particular environmental standards in relation
to your products and services? (This question could include ‘certification’ as
a standard)
FBA6.5
Please describe any key barriers or challenges to achieving an
environmentally sustainable value chain and what measures would you
adopt or allow to overcome them?
Traceability & assurance systems: Questions in this section could be driven by the selection
made in FBA0.3 in the introduction module to ensure that only those questions for each
relevant stage of the value chain appear. Questions will be presented where appropriate by
either individual environmental theme or to capture compliance information on systems or
processes that may cover more than one environmental theme to allow reporting on interrelated environmental issues. For example,
Climate change [Manufacturing]
FBA8.1
Please indicate the verification/assurance status that applies to your
reported Scope 1 emissions
FBA8.2
Please indicate the verification/assurance status that applies to your
reported Scope 2 emissions
FBA8.3
Please indicate the verification/assurance status that applies to your
reported Scope 3 emissions
Deforestation risk and Water [Manufacturing, Retailing]
FBA8.4
Do you have a system in place to track and monitor the origin of raw
materials for your products?
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FBA8.5
Please provide details on the level of traceability your organization has
for your agricultural commodities.
Targets: This section on targets would seek to encourage holistic thinking around
sustainable operations, procurement and consumption and its related management, but
would acknowledge that quantified targets are often set for separate environmental areas.
Questions will be presented where appropriate by either individual environmental theme or
to capture information on systems or processes that may cover more than one
environmental theme plus a company’s motivation for setting these targets.
Examples of questions for this section are: [please note these are for illustration purposes
only; there may be some duplication across questions]
Question relating to Climate change specifically
FBA9.1
Did you have an emissions reduction or energy target that was active
(ongoing or reached completion) in the reporting year?
Question relating to Forests specifically
FBA9.2
Do you have any quantified targets for third party certified materials in
your direct operations and/or supply chain?
Question relating to Water specifically
FBA9.3
Do you have any company-wide targets (quantitative) or goals
(qualitative) related to water?
Questions that could apply to Deforestation risk, Climate change and Water separately or
integrated
FBA9.4
Has your organization made a commitment to source major agriculturalrelated inputs more sustainably?
FBA9.5
Do you have any quantified targets for third party certified materials in
your direct operations and/or supply chains?
FBA9.6
Do you have any quantified targets for sustainable production and/or
procurement, other than third party certification?
Engagement: Questions in this section could include engagement with suppliers and
external organizations. The emphasis would be on how companies engage with these
organizations across interconnecting environmental issues, where there might be linkages
and where there might be trade-offs when trying to set meaningful targets or policy to
achieve an environmentally sustainable value chain. Questions could cover (this list is for
illustration purposes only):
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Engagement with agricultural suppliers;
Engagement with direct, second and third tier suppliers, including support and/or
financial incentives;
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Engagement with policy-makers;
Engagement with river basin management authorities;
Engagement with multi-stakeholder groups;
Engagement with the wider market e.g. trade associations;
Linkages and trade-offs between addressing different environmental issues within
their value chain.
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Feedback is requested through the online feedback form that accompanies this document.
To access the feedback form, please copy and paste the following URL into a new window in
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Public consultation questions:
1. We believe that an integrated CDP questionnaire for the FBA sector should be
aiming to promote environmentally sustainable food, beverage and agriculture
value chains. Do you have comments on this objective?
2. Are you in favor of CDP introducing an integrated questionnaire for FBA companies,
replacing the three requests for information currently being sent to many of the
companies in the sector?
3. Do you think it is possible to collect meaningful data for this sector using one
integrated information request? If not, please suggest an alternative approach.
4. How do you think our proposed approach and/or questionnaire format could be
strengthened to achieve our objective of promoting environmentally sustainable food
beverage and agriculture value chains?
5. What do you think about using different value chain stages to separate out relevant
reporting metrics on different environmental themes? Will this capture granular
enough data that is meaningful to make decisions?
6. Is there merit in using business activities instead of value chain stages to allow more
accurate matching of metrics? If so, what business activities should be included?
7. What do you think about soft commodity information being requested in a future
integrated questionnaire for the FBA sector? Are there any specific data points on
soft commodities you would like to see (that are consistent with the questionnaire’s
aim)?
8. What do you think of the approach to allow FBA companies to report combined risks
covering more than one environmental issue in addition to solo environmental risks in
the implications module? Will this approach help to catalyze response strategies that
address more than one environmental issue at a time and encourage holistic
thinking?
9. Are there any environmental metrics related to sustainable operations, procurement
and consumption practices not already considered within the 2015 questionnaires for
climate change, forests and water that should be included in an integrated
questionnaire for the FBA sector?
10. Currently the lens that is used to define this integrated questionnaire focuses on the
three main environmental themes covered by CDP: climate change, water security
and forests. Should this be expanded to look at additional environmental issues/
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natural capital areas that are relevant to the sector such as soil and biodiversity
perhaps in the context of specific soft commodities? If you think they should be
included, please also make specific suggestions.
11. The issue of food waste can be addressed in this integrated questionnaire through
the focus of emission reduction efforts. Should the topic of food waste or disposal be
incorporated into this integrated questionnaire in any other way? Please consider this
in relation to the three environmental themes CDP already covers.
12. Should we include socio-economic indicators that are inextricably linked to our three
environmental themes in our questions or restrict companies to reporting
environmental information only? If you think they should be included, please make
suggestions for socio-economic indicators that you consider are inextricably linked to
climate change, water security and deforestation risk.
13. Do you have any other comments you would like to make?
Fundraising:
14. CDP has not secured funding for the implementation of this questionnaire yet. If you
are interested in funding the implementation of this work or connecting CDP to
potential funders, please provide your contact details.
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