Sustainability
A sustainable approach
Sustainability is an integral part of our business. Sustainable operations are crucial to securing the future of our company and for creating shared value for our consumers, shareholders and stakeholders.
We strive towards a palm oil supply chain that is responsible and sustainable, while creating livelihoods and opportunities for rural communities. To achieve this, we take a holistic approach to sustainability that is fully integrated into our business model. Our business practices are aligned with universally acceptable social and environmental standards.
Central to Wilmar’s sustainability strategy is our No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy, which extends across our global operations, including our joint-venture partners and third-party suppliers.
82.1%
984,866 MT
RSPO-certified palm oil & kernels production capacity in 2024
31,842 HA
of HCV areas and HCS forest set aside as conservation areas in our oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana and Nigeria (10.4% of our total landbank)
Certification and Conservation
>23.1 mil HA
1,018
Supplier Groups monitored (7,921 Plantation units monitored)
95.9%
of palm oil and lauric products volumes across Wilmar's global supply chain have achieved "Delivering" status for both No Deforestation and No Peat requirements using the NDPE IRF
Supply Chain Monitoring and Compliance to Wilmar's NDPE Policy
96.6%
1.3 mil HA
non-compliant oil palm plantation areas to our NDPE policy, managed by 10 supplier groups remain on our suspension list
12 Supplier Groups
have been suspended since the introduction of our "Suspend First" approach in 2015
Grievances
98.5%
26.0 mil MT
traceable to mill across our global operations
91.0%
have been suspended since atraceable to plantation across our global operationsthe introduction of our "Suspend First" approach in 2015
Traceability
47.0%
89.8%
of compulsory school-going age children living in our plantations attend school
100%
of our employees and contractors assessed to ensure that they are paid a living wage
Protecting Human Rights
Wilmar Group Policies
In December 2013, Wilmar announced its integrated No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) Policy that aims to advance an environmentally and socially responsible palm oil industry. Key to this Policy is the scope which extends beyond its own mills and plantations to include joint ventures regardless of shareholding and third-party suppliers.
Certification
Certification is an important aspect in Wilmar’s sustainability journey and forms the basis for sustainable practices yielding to improvements in efficiency and productivity. To this extent, we benchmark our internal operations globally against various national and international sustainability standards and certifications to support the trade of sustainable palm oil and its derivatives in the market.
Wilmar has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2004 and is actively involved in a wide range of RSPO taskforces and working groups.
Wilmar is committed to the RSPO certification process and has developed a time-bound plan to have all our plantations and mills certified against the RSPO Principles & Criteria (P&C). We have achieved certification for most of our upstream operations and progress is on track to achieve the same for the remaining operations in Indonesia. Unplanted areas are being developed in accordance with the RSPO New Planting Procedures (NPP), including undergoing the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) process and High Conservation Value (HCV) area assessments, which will be conducted by independent consultants1.
Wilmar also supports smallholders in our supply chain by including them in our certification efforts. We have committed to helping our associated smallholders in Indonesia and Ghana in achieving RSPO certification by 2023. We are making progress on this front and we currently have certified plasma smallholders and outgrowers for four of our mills in Indonesia and Ghana. We also recognize that independent smallholders account for a significant portion of the palm oil production globally and we remain to committed to include them in our supply chain. We have initiated a number of schemes in Indonesia to increase the volume of RSPO certified products from independent smallholders to the market.
As of year-end 2023, we have achieved RSPO certification for 29 mills and about 82.0% of our oil palm plantations, representing a production capability of more than 830,000 tonnes of certified sustainable crude palm oil and 180,000 tonnes of certified sustainable palm kernel. Supplies from our certified plasma smallholders added more than 11,600 tonnes and 2,700 tonnes of certified sustainable palm oil and palm kernel respectively to our portfolio. The progress of certification for the remaining 6 mills* are shown below:
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