List of key actions taken, continued, and planned in 2024
Business ethics and integrity (in upstream value chain, own operations, and downstream value chain)
- Continued global roll-out of our enhanced Anti-Bribery and Corruption Program
- Advancement and roll-out of additional global Compliance Programs
- Continued effectiveness assessment of the Speak Up Line
- Assessment of, and updates relating to, additional legal requirements concerning environmental and social responsibilities, and due diligence
Respecting human rights (in upstream value chain and own operations)
- Ongoing integration on how we address salient human rights issues into our policies, targets, trainings, and capacity building
- Update of our saliency assessment and incorporation of necessary changes into our risk assessment, policy, action plans, and Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) in 2025
- Membership of the Consumer Goods Forum’s Human Rights Coalition
- Monitoring, remediation, and preventive interventions as part of our Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) guidance
- Initiation of a systematic CLMRS review by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI)