Carrefour Sourcing Policy - Sustainable Palm Oil 1. Overall

Carrefour Sourcing Policy - Sustainable Palm Oil
1. Overall Commitment
Carrefour is committed to ensure that Carrefour brand products containing palm oil do not
contribute to deforestation by 2020. Carrefour is promoting sustainable palm oil and helping
to break the link between deforestation, and human, land and labor rights violations, and
palm oil. Carrefour will positively influence concerned supply chain through appropriate
practice in order to preserve biodiversity, to reduce associated greenhouse gas emissions
and to ensure the respect of human rights.
Carrefour is committed to reach 100% certified palm oil according to RSPO standard in its
own brand products by 2015. Carrefour works with its suppliers to ensure the use of
100% RSPO certified palm oil by 2015 in Carrefour Product with an objective of
physically segregated RSPO certified palm oil when market maturity allows it.
Carrefour will also strengthen existing purchasing practices in order to develop
traceability and improve sustainability of palm oil production through additional
sourcing criteria.
2. Sustainable palm oil sourcing principles
All sourcing of palm oil through our supply chain should ensure legality and the promotion
of sustainable palm oil including RSPO existing standards as well as with additional critical
issues.
Carrefour considers the following principles critical for sustainable palm oil sourcing:
1. Protection of
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forest with High Conservation Values (HCVs),
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Peat lands,
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High Carbon Stock areas (HCS)
2. Implementation of good practices to reduce GHG emissions in existing
plantations
3. Respect for human rights
4. Respect for rights of workers
5. Respect for local communities rights including free prior informed consent
implementation and land conflict prevention
6. Support small holders in integrating sustainable supply chains
7. No GMOs supplies
8. Minimisation and responsible use of pesticides (respect instruction
and individual protection recommendation) and ban of most
hazardous pesticides (except for exceptional circumstances)
3. Implementation details
In order to source palm oil responsibly and to implement its sourcing principles, Carrefour will
take the following actions:
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For private brand products containing palm oil, ensure that palm oil is RSPO certified in
2015, with an objective of physically segregated RSPO certified palm oil when market
allows it when possible.
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Engage supply chain mapping and identify key manufacturers and suppliers for private
brand products containing palm oil.
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Implement due diligence system and use available tools (certification, traceability, or
other tools) to develop compliance with sustainable palm oil sourcing principles
described above
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Promote sustainable palm oil sourcing criteria described above towards suppliers and
upstream actors of the supply chain.
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Collaborate with suppliers to develop innovative supply chains respecting above
sourcing principles
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Report annually on the actions taken to achieve commitment and the level of
achievement towards the targets, including updated annual targets.
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Demonstrate feasibility on the short term by ensuring that 50 products (already
containing palm and representing main product categories or main market) respect
sourcing principles described above in 2015.