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Environmental Management

Working With Suppliers on Environmental Conservation

Protecting Forests and Biodiversity Introduced in 2019, our SFA helps suppliers
103-1, 103-2, 103-3, 304-2 assess their own operations’ compliance with
our commitments to NDPE. We will work with
Apical does not own any plantations but recognises suppliers found in breach of our policy through
the risks of deforestation and loss of biodiversity the implementation of corrective action plans.
associated with our upstream supply chain if Should these suppliers fail to comply or implement
monitoring and control mechanisms are not in corrective action plans, we will take additional
place. We are committed to protecting HCV, measures and where necessary, review our
HCS and peatlands, and work with our suppliers business relationship.
to meet local, international and our own
sustainability standards. We do not knowingly For more information on our supplier engagement
source from suppliers associated with programmes, see section on Working with
deforestation of protected areas. Suppliers.
Through the spatial analysis of our MPP, Apical Where applicable, we support conservation efforts
assesses all new mills in our supply chain for relating to biodiversity, riparian zones (areas
potential risks, including deforestation and bordering rivers and other bodies of surface water)
encroachment. These suppliers have to provide and HCV areas. This aligns with RSPO Principles &
relevant environmental legal documents. We then Criteria 5.2 and 7.3.
prioritise mills, which are identified as high-risk
for further ground assessments through our PSEP. We are committed to controlling any illegal or
inappropriate hunting of all species across all
During our PSEP visits, we work with suppliers to our operation areas, including rare or threatened
identify, manage and monitor significant biological, species listed under the IUCN Red List and
ecological, social or cultural values through the Indonesia’s National Law of Protected Species.
HCV Approach and geospatial analysis. We also Only hunting by local communities for subsistence
work with our suppliers to adopt a credible HCS that does not cause a decline in the population of
identification procedure by subscribing to the local species is allowed. These requirements also
HCS Approach based on field trials and scientist apply to our suppliers.
recommendations.

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