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Monitoring and response for forest positive outcomes.

Martin Huxtable, Sustainable Sourcing Director, Unilever

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The Palm Oil RoadmapEach commodity has its own Roadmap made up of 5 elements:

• Element 1: Own supply chain

• Element 2: Suppliers and traders

• Element 3: Monitoring and response

• Element 4: Landscape engagement

• Element 5: Transparency and accountability

For each of these elements there are:

• The commitments of Coalition members

• Individual and collective actions to implement the

commitments

• Public information and KPIs for aligned reporting by Coalition

members

The Palm Oil Roadmap can be found on CGF Forest Positive

Coalition website.

The commodity Roadmaps are developed and

implemented through commodity-specific

Working Groups involving all members companies.

Technical support is provided by Proforest and the

Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA).

Acknowledgements

3Thanks also to GAR for sharing experiences of grievance management and response

POWG Deforestation monitoring & response (Element 3)

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• Element 3 Guiding objective building on logic of Element 1&2: How can CGF FPC members and the supply chain take actions at the right place, with the right actors in a timely manner to prevent future non-compliant deforestation?

• Under Element 3 there are 2 workstreams focused on tackling deforestation non-compliances in or linked to CoA member’s palm supply chains:

1. Monitoring “minimum requirements” guidance – to improve consistency of monitoring information to streamline response

2. Response Framework – to clarify CoA roles/responsibilities & streamline response to deforestation non-compliances

• Focus on monitoring & response for 3 scenarios of deforestation non-compliances:1. Concessions & associated producer groups2. Independent concessions3. Outside concessions

STEP 1Verify alert & supply

chain link

STEP 2Grievance investigation (Place/Actor Validated)

STEP 3Action: Short term

STEP 4Action: Medium term,

corrective action & monitoring

2021 Objective: Complete and test Monitoring

Minimum Requirements (MRs) and Response

Framework (RF) with POWG members, Palm

suppliers, traders and monitoring providers

Outputs:• Final MRs and RF published• Pilot phase completed• Implementation in individual companies: prepared to implement

monitoring & response approach in line with Coalition framework within individual supply chain starting in January 2022

H1 progress

✓ Aligned MRs & RF final draft

✓ Active engagement of upstreams & monitoring providers in process

H2: Next steps

Collective deliverables

• Final round of stakeholder engagement

• Final MRs and RF (refined based on pilot phase) published on CGF website

• KPIs for E3

Individual company deliverables

• Participation in pilot phase (May-Sep)

• Monitoring system set up

• Build internal capability for RF & MRs within individual supply chain to be ready to begin implementation in Jan. 2022 (Oct-Dec)

ELEMENT 3 ReviewMonitoring & Response

✓ Pilot phase kicked off

✓ Operationalisationworkshops

Insights into the Future

New - Data Layers and Data Flows New -Methodologies

New - Partnerships for Response > Proactive ActionsNew – Technologies, Tools & Processes

Suppliers and CustomersCoalitions

Jurisdictional Approaches and Landscapes

Predictive technologies

Crowd sourced data

✓ Natural Ecosystem layers

✓ Carbon Layers

✓ Social Information

✓ Land rights information

✓ Inferred sourcing

Areas

✓ Accountability

Layers

✓ Forest Footprinting

✓ Biodiversity

✓ Conversion

✓ Peat lands

✓ Planted areas

✓ Supply chain flows

✓ Supply Chain Assets

✓ Supply linkages

Satellite

Radar

Lidar

Traditional disclosures

Working Groups

Grievance Process Civil Society

Collaboration will be key !

Investment platforms

Descriptive Predictive

Individual Collective

Geolocation

Thoughts and Considerations

Future data sources and layers will develop exponentially

Important to harness the power of data and technology with appropriate methodology and stakeholder support.

Data will be increasingly accurate even in the predictive sense

Building consensus on data to be used and methodologies will be useful and needed.

Consensus can reduce duplication and improve the efficiency of the sectors response and enhance reputation.

Ultimately independent verification is still important - IVWG.

Predicting and Preventing vs Describing and Responding to the past