2011 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Report - Innovation Center for US Dairy

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GRI Reporting Information
Stakeholder Report Feedback
Feedback from stakeholders informed the development
of this report. First, we solicited comments on our 2010
report to guide how we could improve the 2011 report by
holding informal discussions, conducting an online survey
and hosting a meeting with NGOs. In late 2011, we also
invited 40 stakeholders to review a draft of the 2011 report
and provide feedback.
Topics raised by stakeholders include water, air quality
and other environmental impacts beyond GHG emissions,
nutrition, workforce and immigrant labor, animal care, and
the broader impacts of the economic recession. We have
begun to address these topics in this report and will look
into expanding upon them in future reports.
GRI Content Index and Coverage Assessment
The Global Reporting Initiative is a network-based
organization that produces the GRI Reporting Framework,
a comprehensive sustainability reporting framework that
is widely used around the world. GRI-based reporting has
steadily increased since the GRI framework was introduced
in 1999. In the U.S. alone, the number of GRI reports
in 2010 increased by 22 percent from 2009. For more
information about GRI, visit globalreporting.org.
GRI Application-Level Declaration
This report has been prepared according to the GRI G3.1
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines and is self-declared
at GRI Application Level C. Performance indicators
were selected from the G3.1 guidelines and the G3 Food
Processing Sector Supplement.
Report Boundary
Report boundary refers to the range of entities whose
performance is covered in an organization’s sustainability
report and is typically determined based on the
organization’s control of or influence on other entities.
This organizational focus presents unique challenges
for developing an industry-level report. After careful
consideration, we defined two reporting boundaries
for this report: Innovation Center-led efforts to fulfill
the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment, and broader
sustainability efforts and performance across the dairy
value chain.
Standard Disclosures
Report on:
1.1
2.1 - 2.10
3.1 - 3.8, 3.10 - 3.12
4.1 - 4.4, 4.14 - 4.15
Report on all criteria
listed for Level C plus:
1.2
3.9, 3.13
4.5 - 4.13, 4.16 - 4.17
We are a registered Organizational
Stakeholder of the Global Reporting
Initiative and support the mission
of the GRI to develop globally
accepted sustainability reporting
guidelines through a global, multistakeholder
process.
Report Application
Level C C+ B B+ A A+
G3 Profile
Disclosures
G3 Management
Approach
Disclosures
G3 Performance
Indicators &
Sector Supplement
Performance
Indicators
OUTPUT OUTPUT OUTPUT
Not Required
Report on a minimum
of 10 Performance
Indicators, including at
least one from each of:
Economic, Social and
Environmental.
Report Externally Assured
Management Approach
Disclosures for each
Indicator Category
Report on a minimum
of 20 Performance
Indicators, including
at least one from
each of: Economic,
Environmental, Human
rights, Labor, Society,
Product Responsibility.
Report Externally Assured
Same as requirement
for Level B
Management Approach
Disclosures for each
Indicator Category
Report on each core G3
and Sector Supplement*
Indicator with due
regard to the Materiality
Principle by either: a)
reporting on the Indicator
or b) explaining the
reason for its omission.
Report Externally Assured
*Sector supplement in final version
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