Barry Callebaut reports sustainable sourcing achievement
Barry Callebaut has released its Forever Chocolate Progress Report 2018/2019, which notes that of all the agricultural raw materials the company sourced in 2018/2019, 51% were sustainably sourced. Barry Callebaut sourced 47% of its cocoa beans through sustainability programs. This percentage includes the company’s Cocoa Horizons program as well as its customers’ own programs and external certification organizations such as UTZ Certified, Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, and organic. Furthermore, Barry Callebaut sourced 54% of its non-cocoa agricultural raw materials sustainably. This includes the use of sustainability certification schemes for the respective ingredients.
The new report is Barry Callebaut’s third progress report since the launch of its Forever Chocolate plan in 2016, tracking the company’s progress towards making sustainable chocolate the norm. Forever Chocolate is based on four targets, to be achieved by 2025, that address the largest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain:
- More than 500,000 cocoa farmers will have been lifted out of poverty
- Eradicate child labor from the supply chain
- Become carbon and forest positive
- Have 100% sustainable ingredients in all products
In order to have more than 500,000 cocoa farmers lifted out of poverty by 2025, the company is mapping the cocoa farms in its supply chain. As of end 2018/2019, Barry Callebaut had full data on 176,984 farms and their farmers entered into its Katchilè database. This database provides key insights into the location, farm size, socio-economic and household data of cocoa farms and their farmers. This data allows Barry Callebaut to offer tailor-made advice at individual farm level on how to improve productivity via Farm Business Plans and Farm Services.
In 2018/2019, Barry Callebaut identified 3,867 cases of child labor (-9%) in its cocoa supply chain. All cases involved children helping on the family farm that fell under the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) definition of the worst forms of child labor. For all identified cases remediation is being prepared and for 2,333 of the reported cases remediation has been activated.
In pursuit of its target to store more carbon emissions than it produces by 2025, Barry Callebaut reduced its corporate carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) footprint from 9.10 million tons to 8.49 million tons in fiscal year 2018/2019 (-6.7%), while achieving +5.1% volume growth. The main drivers of this achievement were reduced CO2e emissions from land use change, reduced CO2e intensity in factories, and reduced CO2e intensity in dairy products. The CO2e intensity per ton of product also decreased from 4.45 to 3.92. Of the company’s factories, 17 out of 62 are now running on 100% renewable energy.
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