ESG
Environment
As a leading global agribusiness, LDC recognizes that minimizing our environmental impact is imperative to our long-term success, safeguarding the natural resources we depend on in our work to help feed and clothe a growing global population. To this end, we seek to reduce the environmental impact of our business activities through actions to reduce emissions, water consumption and waste generation in our operations around the world, while encouraging partners and stakeholders across food and agricultural value chains to do the same.
In 2022, we reached our goal to reduce LDC’s four environmental key performance indicators (greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy consumption, water usage and solid waste sent to landfill) by 5% between 2018 and 2022, and pursued our efforts to reduce emissions from shipping activities.
In parallel, our Carbon Solutions team advanced with essential groundwork for setting science-based emissions reduction targets in 2023 and beyond.
In February 2022, we also announced a key step for conservation, with our commitment to eliminate deforestation and conversion of native vegetation of high conservation value for agricultural purposes from all our supply chains, by the end of 2025. Going beyond sectoral commitments and roadmaps, LDC adopted reference dates at November 2016 for palm and January 2020 for soy and other commodities.
In addition to reducing the environmental impact of our own operations, we continue to work to drive change at the heart of the food chain, by engaging with the farmers whose production methods are key to the conservation of natural resources and habitats.
In 2022, working with partners, we supported and trained hundreds of farming communities connected with our business across three continents, with a goal to empower them to increase their yields sustainably through regenerative agriculture practices.
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Climate
As part of our commitment to contribute to global climate goals, we set global, time-bound targets to reduce our environmental impact.
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Land Use Change
Aiming to conserve natural habitats and resources we all depend on, we pursued our work to eliminate deforestation and native vegetation conversion for agricultural purposes from our supply chains.
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Water Management
Supported by systematic implementation of sector best practices in irrigation, we exceeded our water use reduction target.
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Waste Management
Through various actions at our facilities, we far exceeded our target to reduce solid waste sent to landfill compared to our 2018 baseline.
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