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An insightful post on whether to keep a “scorecard” on the private sector their work to address climate change, risk sharing, and building disaster resilience into supply chains.

svdberg:

This is the Behind the Brands scorecard, an initiative by Oxfam. It assesses the world’s 10 largest food and beverage companies’ agricultural policies. Companies such as Nestle, Unilever and CocaCola have been evaluated regarding seven issues ranging from land ownership to women rights and climate change.

In the midst of our Global Platform preparations, the UNISDR Business Partnerships unit took a closer look at this scorecard. We focused on the companies’ scores around climate change adaptation, risk sharing, resilience and supply chain risks.

We would like to share our findings and we’re curious to hear your thoughts on how we can take action on this!

Not one of the 10 companies is building climate adaptive capacity or resilience of small scale producers. Nor does any company have examples of environmental impact assessment of land use change. And, except for General Mills, not one of the 10 recognizes the importance of contract arrangements that include mechanisms for fair risk-sharing.

Based on this, one could say that there’s quite some work cut out for the private sector to contribute to resilient communities and a sustainable agricultural sector. A good confirmation that we made the right choice focusing on the private sector during this Global Platform!

On the plus side, Nestle and CocaCola are doing a better job than others when it comes to the Disaster Risk Reduction-related questions under ‘climate’. These are the two companies who score the most points on indicators such as community resilience, climate change vulnerability, risks and adaptation.

During the Global Platform, the private sector will be present to share experiences on resilient investment and supply chain risk management. They will learn from civil society about approaches to communities’ resilience and they can showcase their good practices that will inspire other actors to do the same.

For all of the 10 companies and Oxfam, the Global Platform would be a great opportunity to continue the intended debate and dialogue between companies, civil societies and industry experts. Most probably, the many Global Platform participants representing parliaments, local and national governments will be happy to join in this as well.

But why wait until the Global Platform? Share your thoughts!
What are possible actions to increase the scores on resilience, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction? How can the Global Platform contribute to a debate to create a more resilient and sustainable agricultural sector?

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