Carrefour - 2017 Registration Document

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Protecting biodiversity 2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT | CARREFOUR 2. 56 Developing apiculture 2.3.5 Carrefour’s policy Because pollination is an essential factor in food safety and diversity, Carrefour supports apiculture and has set an objective for all countries covered by the Group to have a bee plan by 2020 [CSR Index]. The four priorities of this plan are: continue to install beehives on store roofs to raise customer 1. awareness of the role played by bees in protecting the environment, and to develop apiculture in suburban areas; encourage the sale of locally- and nationally-produced honey 2. in Carrefour stores to support the work of beekeepers; develop a Carrefour Quality Line honey in each country of 3. operation to forge direct partnerships with beekeepers and to guarantee traceability; add a section on protecting pollinators to the Carrefour 4. Quality Lines specifications for fruit and vegetables. Highlights There are today some 210 beehives at Carrefour sites (stores, warehouses and headquarters buildings) in Belgium, France and Poland. The honey is collected by a local beekeeper and sold instore or donated to charities or schools. These initiatives raise awareness of the importance of preserving biodiversity, and of the role played by bees as pollinators. Carrefour France continued its work on bee and pollinator conservation by specifying the elimination of products harmful to pollinators and the introduction of hives and land set aside for apiculture in plots used for producing fruit and vegetables in the Carrefour Quality Lines. Carrefour has also begun a partnership with the Noé biodiversity preservation organisation on the sale of charity-affiliated products. Customers buying Reflets de France honey will be helping to finance new bee-keeping businesses and projects on bee protection and conservation, and the purchase of “bread for bees” helps finance land set aside for apiculture. Did you know? In 2011, Carrefour began installing beehives on the roofs of its stores or in the surrounding areas to integrate biodiversity at its sites and support local beekeepers. The beekeepers sell the honey in-store and put on customer awareness-raising events. Encouraging sourcing of 2.3.6 products that do not contribute to deforestation Actions addressing SDG 15 Carrefour supports initiatives to promote sustainable forestry management, combat deforestation and encourage sourcing of products that are not a result of deforestation (target 15.2). Carrefour’s policy Carrefour is targeting zero deforestation by 2020. It set this target in 2010 at the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF). To reach this target, Carrefour is implementing measures such as: Implementing compliance rules on purchasing of forestry ● products; Setting up stakeholder panels to adapt purchasing compliance ● rules to local situations and plan joint communication operations with partners to address store customers (explanation of labels, product identification, etc.); Running promotional events with partner NGOs to promote ● products made under sustainable forestry programmes. These measures are primarily directed at the four types of supplies having the highest forestry impact: Wood/paper: own-brand writing paper, furniture, wooden ● articles and charcoal; Brazilian beef sold in Brazil; ● Soy used in Carrefour brand meat products; ● Palm oil used as an ingredient in Carrefour own-brand products. ● Since 2005, the Group has taken a comprehensive approach to reducing the amount of paper used in its publications (e.g., reducing paper grammage, going paperless and optimising distribution) and to increasing the relative proportion of recycled or certified paper. Carrefour also works with printers to reduce the amounts of paper used in its sales and marketing publications.