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Skretting sustainability report 2020

Our migration towards a more sustainable future

Introduction to the Sheet  Roadmap 2025

Skretting's sustainability ambition reached a major milestone in 2020 with the development of the new Roadmap 2025. Built under the direction of our parent company, Nutreco, and with the aim of contributing to the SDGs, the Roadmap 2025 is the result of a process that began in 2018 with a materiality assessment and involved nearly 300 internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, NGOs and internal staff who were instrumental in identifying the most relevant environmental, social and economic impacts for our position in the value chain.

In the 2025 Roadmap we have defined the material issues in which we believe we have the opportunity to distinguish ourselves, as they go beyond the standard practices that license global companies in the food value chain to operate. Thus, our new five-year strategy sets renewed and measurable targets for the three pillars of sustainability that will guide our work (Health and Well-being; Climate and circularity; Good Citizenship), with a clear focus on the areas where we can contribute to making a difference in all our operations, as well as other objectives that will also be followed on our journey.

RoadMap 2025 graphic

  • Health and Wellness

    Health and wellbeing are at the heart of everything we do as a company, it's an area where we can make a big difference, in partnership with our customers and other stakeholders in the value chain. Helping to ensure that animals are raised with optimal nutrition and good welfare is essential to achieving our purpose of "Feeding the Future" and can even have a significant impact on human health. We are committed to stepping up and taking responsibility for our position in the value chain by providing nutritional solutions that enable protein producers to reduce their reliance on antibiotic use.

  • Climate and Circularity

    People around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of food production and their own dietary choices. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), global feed production accounts for 45% of the carbon footprint of livestock products. The most important part of our environmental impact is on the supply side of our business model and activities, and we believe we can reduce our environmental impact by working together with stakeholders at every stage of the value chain.

    In addition, through Nutreco, we have committed to setting science-based targets in scopes 1, 2 and 3, and thus reduce our overall carbon footprint. The approval of these objectives was published in the first quarter of 2021.

  • Good citizenship

    As a responsible company, we want to be a good citizen and have a positive impact on our key stakeholders. This includes doing business with respect for the rights of all people affected by our operations. It means providing a work environment where our employees feel safe, welcome, and able to develop in their careers. And it involves working together in our communities towards a better way of life for all.

Roadmap 2025

As part of a broad and complex value chain, we know that the implementation of Roadmap 2025 will face different challenges. Therefore, and in line with what we have done through our previous reports, our sustainability journey will be made with transparency about the progress we make and the actions we take to contribute to an even more sustainable aquaculture industry.

To learn more about the 2025 Roadmap, click here

Main topics covered by the 2025 Roadmap

  • Health & Wellness
    Focus Area

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

    We do this to:

    Innovation leads to new products and services that will directly reduce reliance on antibiotic use in animal farming and the adoption of five-step targets that will significantly reduce antibiotic use by creating business opportunities for customers

    First objective:

    Animal welfare

    Other objectives:
    • Do not make prophylactic use of antibiotics in food.
    • Do not use antibiotics for growth or coccidiostat use
    • Antibiotics listed as "critically important to human health" are not used.
  • Climate and circularity
    Focus on:

    Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

    We do this by:

    Adoption of the "Science Based Targets" methodology that sets emission reduction targets through energy efficiency and sustainable ingredient sourcing programmes that incorporate the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and the use of new ingredients. Address the responsible use of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems in compound feed ingredients. 

    Objectives:
    • Packaging
    • Water
    • Waste
    Summary of objectives:
    • Science-based targets towards 2030
    • LCA + Sustainability with Filter in Innovation
    • 100% deforestation-free
    • 100% certified marine ingredients
    • 5 - 10% of the novel ingredients*
    • 100% recycled, reusable or compostable packaging
    • 0% coal and fuel oil by 2030
    • 0% waste in landfills
  • Good citizenship
    Focus:

    Diversity and inclusion.

    We do this to:

    Address diversity and inclusion in the company's workforce. In addition, to empower local communities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty through sustainable crops with best-practice technology for their purpose.

    Objective:

    Stakeholder engagement

    Aimed at other departments
    • Employee Development
    • Occupational health and safety
    • Human and labour rights
    Summary of objectives:
    • Expand community development and community engagement initiatives to touch the lives of 12,000 people.
    • High-risk supplier ratings + audits.
    • 25% women in senior management (30% at Skretting)

* Novel ingredients are defined as ingredients, for non-conventional foods of plant, animal and inorganic origin (not traditionally used by food manufacturers), where after extensive R+D work and manufacturing of a certain volume, they can be used as suitable alternatives to conventional ingredients in commercially relevant quantities.

Sea farm

To measure progress on our goals, at the end of 2020, our Nutreco Sustainability Platform launched its new online tool "RoadMap 2025 Progress Assessment", which allows all Managing Directors and Functional Directors of OpCos to answer specific questions related to the completion or partial completion of objectives.

This first exercise in the Progress Assessment tool was a "practice run" to identify potential areas for improvement and establish baseline data to mark our starting point as we complete our goals through December 2025. The results of this first practice run will be analysed in the first half of 2021 and a scoring system will be developed to be able to score and monitor progress in 2021 and over the next five years.