Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness Rural development Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
Materials G4-DMA, Energy G4-DMA, Biodiversity G4-DMA, Emissions G4-DMA, Effluents and waste G4-DMA, Products and services G4-DMA, Compliance G4-DMA (Environmental),
Transport G4-DMA, Overall G4-DMA, Supplier environmental assessment G4-DMA, Environmental grievance mechanisms G4-DMA
Governance and management systems
The strategic implementation of Creating Shared Value across
all Nestlé businesses is overseen by the Nestlé in Society
Board, chaired by the CEO; management is accountable for
implementing our Environmental Management System across
the business.
Operations
Sustainability
Council
Chair: Magdi
Batato, Executive
Vice President and
Head of
Operations
Board of Directors
Audit Committee
Chair: Renato Fassbind, member
of the Board of Directors
Chairman and CEO
Executive Board
Nestlé in Society Board
Nestlé Water
Task Force
Chair: Magdi
Batato, Executive
Vice President and
Head of
Operations
Brands and
Creating
Shared Value
Advisory Team
Chair: Tom Buday,
Head of Marketing
and Consumer
Communication
R&D
Council for
Sustainability
and Nutrition
Chair: Stefan
Catsicas, Chief
Technology
Officer
The Board of Directors and the Executive Board are assisted
by a number of governance bodies with responsibility for
environmental sustainability, including:
• Board of Directors’ Audit Committee – assists the Board
of Directors in fulfilling its responsibilities with respect to
accounting and financial reporting, the internal and external
audit processes, and its overview of the risk management
processes;
• Operations Sustainability Council – ensures the
integration of sustainability throughout the company;
• Nestlé Water Task Force – helps our corporate functions
and markets to execute Nestlé’s commitments;
• Brands and Creating Shared Value Advisory Team
– guides the effective communication of initiatives to
consumers; and
• R&D Council for Sustainability and Nutrition – ensures
the implementation of Sustainability by Design across the
research and development (R&D) organisation.
NCBP
Nestlé Corporate
Business Principles
The Nestlé Policy
on the Environment
Corporate (Global) Policy
Nestlé Environmental
Management System (NEMS)
Framework & system management
Global instructions
Corporate Function &
Business Specific Requirements
Mandatory requirements by corporate functions / globally
or regionally managed businesses
Market Environmental Management Systems
Market level requirements, methods & tools
Plant Environmental Management Systems
(Factories ISO14001 certified)
Site-level implementation
Our policies and standards
The Nestlé Policy on Environmental Sustainability contains our
CEO’s commitment to environmentally sustainable business
practices. Originally launched in 1991, it was reissued in 2013
and covers our product life-cycle approach across the Nestlé
value chain – from farm to consumer and beyond. It identifies
six focus areas: water preservation; natural resources
efficiency; biodiversity conservation; air emissions reduction;
climate change adaptation; and zero waste.
The policy incorporates the United Nations Global Compact
(UNGC) environmental principles, which state that businesses
should: support a precautionary approach to environmental
challenges; undertake initiatives to promote greater
environmental responsibility; and encourage the development
and diffusion of technologies with a better environmental
performance.
The policy is complemented by more detailed commitments
on key environmental issues, including:
• The Nestlé Commitment on Climate Change;
• The Nestlé Commitment on Biofuels;
• The Nestlé Commitment on Water Stewardship;
• The Nestlé Commitment on Natural Capital;
• The Nestlé Commitment to reduce food loss and waste; and
• The Nestlé Commitment on Deforestation and Forest
Stewardship.
Strategic masterplanning
Led by a team of representatives from across the business,
who oversee the implementation of The Nestlé Policy on
Environmental Sustainability, improve transparency and avoid
duplication of effort, we have updated our environmental
sustainability strategic master plan.
In 2015, we held two strategic masterplanning workshops at
our headquarters in Vevey to create a roadmap for
implementation through to 2018. Our latest public commitments
and objectives on environmental sustainability for this report
were agreed at these workshops.
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