Mars Inc

"Our Supplier Code of Conduct is informed by the International Bill of Human Rights, the principles set forth in the International Labour Organization’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This document, and related guidance, establishes expectations of Mars’s suppliers with regard to business practices, including their approach to human rights, the environment, and ethical practices aligned with legal requirements, the Mars, Incorporated Human Rights Policy, other relevant Mars policies, and international good practice. [...] Discrimination [...] Forced Labour [...] Child Labour [...] Freedom of association"

The Farmer Income Lab "In 2018, we launched the Farmer Income Lab, a collaborative “think-do tank” focused on finding practical insights needed to help eradicate smallholder poverty. This Lab is intended to be a catalyst, driving faster and more effective impact at scale within our supply chains, and amplifying our impacts by sharing our insights with others. We’re proud that Oxfam has agreed to serve as one of our advisers on this work. Maximizing Impact with the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming To further our investment in smallholder farmers, we co-founded the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming, which will invest more than $130 million to develop sustainable agriculture projects aimed at improving incomes, enhancing food security and restoring ecosystems."

"The evidence is clear – investing in gender equality benefits communities and business alike [...] Now we are developing guidance for procurement teams to more effectively and sustainably support women in communities where we source raw materials. We believe that integrating gender equity into our core procurement strategies will more effectively address the root causes of gender disparities on farms and in factories at scale [...] With support from companies including PepsiCo, McCormick, and Cargill, together with CARE Impact Partners, we’ve developed an understanding of “what works,” by analyzing twenty recent initiatives across diverse regions and raw materials. Consultations with peers and experts informed a set of Guiding Principles for prioritizing gender in procurement practices: Learn about women in your supply chain. Build gender into your procurement goals and metrics. Adapt your purchasing practices to be gender-responsive. Help your intermediary suppliers to get on board with gender equity. Layer gender transformative approaches into existing sourcing programs initiatives. Collaborate with NGO partners, the public sector, and corporate peers to drive change for women in supply chains effectively and efficiently, at scale. But these Guiding Principles are only the beginning. This year, we plan to build a Gender in Sourcing Playbook with the guidance, tools, and skills needed to design gender-transformative sourcing strategies – designed for procurement professionals. "

"Mars expects suppliers to meet the following guidelines to stop deforestation from a specified cut-off date: [...] Support existing human rights commitments including respect for farmers’ and communities’ land rights, free prior and informed consent, and the rights of indigenous and forest-dependent people Resolve land rights disputes through a balanced and transparent dispute resolution process"

"Human rights defenders are facing increasingly serious pressures, violence and lawsuits intended to silence them. We do not tolerate threats, intimidation, criminalization, or attacks against human rights defenders in relation to our own operations, and we expect the same of suppliers in our supply chain."

"For beef sources from Brazil, Argentina and México, our partner Proforest runs a geospatial risk analysis using information provided by our suppliers, satellite imagery, and other data sources. We have already completed this analysis for Brazil and Argentina. México was added to the Mars Beef Action Plan in 2020, and supply chain mapping to the slaughterhouse-level was initiated in that year. Utilizing that information, our first geospatial risk analysis for Mexico will be run in 2021 by Proforest, and our progress will be disclosed in 2022. The risk analysis provides us with insights on how exposed our suppliers are to conversion of natural ecosystems and other potential breaches to our commitments, which in turn allows us to take the appropriate measures to help address these risks."

"We expect all direct beef ingredient suppliers to implement the requirements from this action plan across their supply chains to ensure that direct cattle suppliers in their supply chains are compliant. These suppliers should begin with implementing the action plan in the Mars supply chain, and ultimately move toward implementing it across all their suppliers"

"To achieve our ambition by 2025, we expect our direct beef suppliers in Latin America to [...] Maintain a deforestation cutoff date of October 2009 for the Brazilian Amazon and December 2017 for other biomes. This includes forests (including HCS forests), and other types of natural ecosystems (including savannah and other HCV areas)."

"We are members of the Consumer Good Forum Forest Postive Coalition of Action Beef Work Group. Our President & CEO co-chairs the colaition. Our Beef Sourcing & Deforestation implementation lead co-chairs the Beef Work Group. We are also member of the Brazil Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock (GTPS). Through these initiatives, we are working with industry peers and key suppliers to develop transparent principles and practices, and collaborative projects to promote sustainable beef production and reduce deforestation. By adopting an integratted approach that encourages suppliers to adopt deforestation & sourcing criteria accross their entire operations and that supports landscape-level interventions, we are working to promote a forest-positive cattle production system"[...]"On top of that, we have supported the development of the Beef Toolkit9 , a Global Environment Facility-funded program designed to help companies in the responsible sourcing of beef. We have provided technical input to the development of the Toolkit material, helping shed light on resources that companies across multiple supply chain stages can build on to implement their responsible sourcing beef strategies."

"We use an internal geographic information system to overlay the raw material origins identified through supply chain mapping with areas at high risk of deforestation. We have integrated assessment of deforestation and other sustainability risks in our agricultural supply chain into the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology (MSSM). This six-step process guides our buyers on all aspects of assessing, selecting, contracting and monitoring the performance of suppliers. The MSSM process includes an annual review cycle. We chose this method to ensure deforestation and other sustainability risks are integrated into procurement decisions."

"We factor regulators into our risk assessments as part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology (MSSM). This six-step process guides our buyers on all aspects of assessing, selecting, contracting and monitoring the performance of suppliers. One such aspect is an assessment of the external environment, including political and legal risks affecting the raw material in question. Relevant factors considered within this assessment include: - Regulation and de-regulation trends - Tax policy and trade & tariff controls - Legislation in areas such as employment, competition and health and safety. - Import/export laws - Regulatory bodies and their processes - Industry specific legislation - Environmental regulations."

"Forest risk commodity Cattle products[...]Volume 244,499"

Mars publicly reports a list of their Argentinian and Brazilian beef suppliers.

"In addition to what we expect from our direct beef suppliers, Mars is taking the following actions to address deforestation: Continuing to work with our direct beef suppliers and slaughterhouses toward improving the transparency across the full supply chain, including the indirect cattle suppliers, with whom there is not currently a tested solution or approach. We will stay informed of developments in the sector regarding strategies, potential agreements and viable traceability solutions to address indirect cattle suppliers, aiming to implement them when deemed feasible. Verifying direct cattle and beef suppliers’ and slaughterhouses’ compliance with this action plan through third-party verification of their purchase control system. Frequency of verification may be determined by suppliers’ risk of policy breaches."

"Response to supplier non-compliance: Retain & engage Exclude [...] Procedures to address and resolve non-compliance with suppliers: Developing time-bound targets and milestones to bring suppliers back into compliance. Providing information on appropriate actions that can be taken to address noncompliance. Assessing the efficacy and efforts of non-compliant supplier actions through consistent and quantified metrics. Re-integrating suppliers back into supply chain based on the successful and verifiable completion of activities"

"Our Supplier Code of Conduct is informed by the International Bill of Human Rights, the principles set forth in the International Labour Organization’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.[...]Suppliers will have in place appropriate policies, management systems, procedures, and staffing to meet the expectations in the Supplier Code of Conduct.[...]If Mars suppliers are distributors, brokers, and agents, they are expected to assure that their first-tier suppliers supplying goods for Mars also apply these standards, and to provide this assurance to Mars upon request. Suppliers to Mars are expected to provide these partners with assistance in complying with these expectations as needed."

"Mars recognizes that to truly create a world in which everyone thrives that we must take a wholistic approach to our sourcing. To that end, the company has made several investments in programs designed to effective positive change on the landscape or jurisdictional level, and at the same time we know we must support smallholders to ensure they are included in the push to develop a more sustainable palm oil supply chain. Mars recognizes that to truly create a world in which everyone thrives that we must take a wholistic approach to our sourcing. To that end, the company has made several investments in programs designed to effective positive change on the landscape or jurisdictional level, and at the same time we know we must support smallholders to ensure they are included in the push to develop a more sustainable palm oil supply chain." Mars outline several partnerships that engage with smallholders.

"The evidence is clear – investing in gender equality benefits communities and business alike [...] Now we are developing guidance for procurement teams to more effectively and sustainably support women in communities where we source raw materials. We believe that integrating gender equity into our core procurement strategies will more effectively address the root causes of gender disparities on farms and in factories at scale [...] With support from companies including PepsiCo, McCormick, and Cargill, together with CARE Impact Partners, we’ve developed an understanding of “what works,” by analyzing twenty recent initiatives across diverse regions and raw materials. Consultations with peers and experts informed a set of Guiding Principles for prioritizing gender in procurement practices: Learn about women in your supply chain. Build gender into your procurement goals and metrics. Adapt your purchasing practices to be gender-responsive. Help your intermediary suppliers to get on board with gender equity. Layer gender transformative approaches into existing sourcing programs initiatives. Collaborate with NGO partners, the public sector, and corporate peers to drive change for women in supply chains effectively and efficiently, at scale. But these Guiding Principles are only the beginning. This year, we plan to build a Gender in Sourcing Playbook with the guidance, tools, and skills needed to design gender-transformative sourcing strategies – designed for procurement professionals. "

"Mars expects suppliers to meet the following guidelines to stop deforestation from a specified cut-off date: [...] Support existing human rights commitments including respect for farmers’ and communities’ land rights, free prior and informed consent, and the rights of indigenous and forest-dependent people Resolve land rights disputes through a balanced and transparent dispute resolution process"

"Human rights defenders are facing increasingly serious pressures, violence and lawsuits intended to silence them. We do not tolerate threats, intimidation, criminalization, or attacks against human rights defenders in relation to our own operations, and we expect the same of suppliers in our supply chain."

"Mars is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a non-profit membership organization that promotes the growth and use of sustainable palm oil. Since 2013, we have purchased 100% of our palm oil from RSPO-certified sources through the mass balance program."

"Mars’ long-term vision is to expand our influence beyond just the supply that we use, so that our suppliers prevent deforestation and land conversion throughout their full business. There is no time to lose. Ensuring a deforestation-free supply chain for a discrete corporate “buyer” is a positive step, but we aren’t satisfied if our suppliers continue to contribute to deforestation elsewhere in their businesses."

Mars state they have a cut-off date of 2015 for their palm oil sourcing.

"In May 2021, Mars announced launching another 10-year project as part of its continued commitment to the Livelihoods fund for Family Farming (L3F) to help 2,500 smallholder palm oil farmers achieve sustainable livelihoods in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The project aims to build a transparent and deforestation-free supply chain thanks to locally adapted agroforestry models, regenerative agriculture, and biodiversity enhancement."

"Mars recognizes that to truly create a world in which everyone thrives that we must take a wholistic approach to our sourcing. To that end, the company has made several investments in programs designed to effective positive change on the landscape or jurisdictional level, and at the same time we know we must support smallholders to ensure they are included in the push to develop a more sustainable palm oil supply chain. [...] In February 2021 Mars joined with Nestle to take a leadership role in the Earthworm Areas for Priority Transformation (APT) supporting a vision across the whole of Aceh, targets have been set and progress made: a multi-stakeholder forum, a key element of a jurisdictional approach, has been set up."

"We use an internal geographic information system to overlay the raw material origins identified through supply chain mapping with areas at high risk of deforestation. We have integrated assessment of deforestation and other sustainability risks in our agricultural supply[...]Our business relies on the availability of raw materials including pulp and paper for packaging, and cocoa, palm oil, beef and soy as ingredients for our products. Our risk assessments consider how interrelated impacts such as deforestation, climate change, water and land use, will affect yields and therefore the availability and these commodities. We assess the availability of each commodity using our internal sustainability impact calculator, the risk assessment tools that form part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology, and with assistance from relevant expert third-parties including Earthworm, Proforest, and certification"

"“We factor regulators into our risk assessments as part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology (MSSM)…. Relevant factors considered within this assessment include: - Regulation and de-regulation trends - Tax policy and trade & tariff controls - Legislation in areas such as employment, competition and health and safety. - Import/export laws - Regulatory bodies and their processes - Industry specific legislation - Environmental regulations"

"Mars has sourced 100% RSPO-certified mass balance palm oil since 2013."

"In 2018, Mars updated our Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights in Sustainable Sourcing, with detailed guidance on activating our CARE Framework and developing human rights action plans, including elements related to forced labor, where relevant. In 2019, we launched additional guidance material focused on how procurement teams can engage suppliers as they develop approaches to address key risk factors. This is supported by a range of tools and templates launched in 2020, including a roadmap to help understand supplier management systems and how they can be progressively strengthened. Tailored training is provided to relevant teams internally."

Example from the list of palm oil suppliers; "PO1000006137 AGROAMERICA Extractora Agroaceite Guatemala RSPO Certified, IP"

Mars are “Putting in place robust processes to verify supplier compliance” […] We are working with the Earth Equalizer Foundation to conduct satellite monitoring on a monthly basis of our total supply chain at supplier group level for deforestation or development on peat, and following up with our Tier-1 suppliers to take appropriate action following verification of any findings. […] Internal company methods: We have integrated assessment of deforestation and other sustainability risks in our agricultural supply chain into the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology (MSSM) […] This six-step process guides our buyers on all aspects of assessing, selecting, contracting and monitoring the performance of suppliers. […] In 2020 our internal company methods successfully achieved and exceeded our supply chain targets and we now have 100% visibility of our Palm Oil supply chain up to plantation level at all locations.”

"The Mars Palm Oil Principles & Criteria To facilitate engagement with suppliers, Mars has created its Palm Positive P&C which covers the implementation of NPDE policies, with specific requests such as the status or existence of monitoring and verification policies and their implementation, grievance management systems, human rights managements systems, engagement with smallholders and other critical information. The result of the P&C is the Mars Palm Positive Supplier Scorecard (example below) which is used to manage the company’s palm oil engagement with suppliers and to track their progress in meeting all of the requirements of the Palm Positive Plan. Mill suppliers not meeting the requirements of the Palm Positive Plan Scorecard are first engaged and given a specified time period for improvement based on the nature of nonconformity. Those that repeatedly fail to meet our timelines or refuse to meet our requirements are no longer eligible to be a supplier of one of Mars’ Tier 1 suppliers"

"Following the proposed divestment of IOI Pelita in December 2017, Mars immediately contact IOI, voiced our concerns and decided to withhold future business. They will only be reconsidered as a supplier if specific requirements are met, including the full implementation of the RSPO recommended action plan agreed with Grassroots, as well as the establishment of a new governance process that takes into account sustainability considerations. We continue in dialogue with IOI as we believe this is the best way to affect change in line with our policy. Mars has stopped sourcing from Surya Panen Subur II given evidence of illegal deforestation in the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia."

"Our Supplier Code of Conduct is informed by the International Bill of Human Rights, the principles set forth in the International Labour Organization’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.[...]Suppliers will have in place appropriate policies, management systems, procedures, and staffing to meet the expectations in the Supplier Code of Conduct.[...]If Mars suppliers are distributors, brokers, and agents, they are expected to assure that their first-tier suppliers supplying goods for Mars also apply these standards, and to provide this assurance to Mars upon request. Suppliers to Mars are expected to provide these partners with assistance in complying with these expectations as needed."

The Farmer Income Lab "In 2018, we launched the Farmer Income Lab, a collaborative “think-do tank” focused on finding practical insights needed to help eradicate smallholder poverty. This Lab is intended to be a catalyst, driving faster and more effective impact at scale within our supply chains, and amplifying our impacts by sharing our insights with others. We’re proud that Oxfam has agreed to serve as one of our advisers on this work. Maximizing Impact with the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming To further our investment in smallholder farmers, we co-founded the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming, which will invest more than $130 million to develop sustainable agriculture projects aimed at improving incomes, enhancing food security and restoring ecosystems."

"The evidence is clear – investing in gender equality benefits communities and business alike [...] Now we are developing guidance for procurement teams to more effectively and sustainably support women in communities where we source raw materials. We believe that integrating gender equity into our core procurement strategies will more effectively address the root causes of gender disparities on farms and in factories at scale [...] With support from companies including PepsiCo, McCormick, and Cargill, together with CARE Impact Partners, we’ve developed an understanding of “what works,” by analyzing twenty recent initiatives across diverse regions and raw materials. Consultations with peers and experts informed a set of Guiding Principles for prioritizing gender in procurement practices: Learn about women in your supply chain. Build gender into your procurement goals and metrics. Adapt your purchasing practices to be gender-responsive. Help your intermediary suppliers to get on board with gender equity. Layer gender transformative approaches into existing sourcing programs initiatives. Collaborate with NGO partners, the public sector, and corporate peers to drive change for women in supply chains effectively and efficiently, at scale. But these Guiding Principles are only the beginning. This year, we plan to build a Gender in Sourcing Playbook with the guidance, tools, and skills needed to design gender-transformative sourcing strategies – designed for procurement professionals. "

"Mars expects suppliers to meet the following guidelines to stop deforestation from a specified cut-off date: [...] Support existing human rights commitments including respect for farmers’ and communities’ land rights, free prior and informed consent, and the rights of indigenous and forest-dependent people Resolve land rights disputes through a balanced and transparent dispute resolution process""

"Human rights defenders are facing increasingly serious pressures, violence and lawsuits intended to silence them. We do not tolerate threats, intimidation, criminalization, or attacks against human rights defenders in relation to our own operations, and we expect the same of suppliers in our supply chain."

"Landscape programs in high-risk origins: based on risk assessments carried out with the support of the Earthworm Foundation and our traceability back to at least country of harvest, we continue to engage suppliers in high-risk sourcing areas to support concrete and scalable programs on the ground. These programs will be led by credible expert organizations that tackle sustainable forestry issues in these high-risk geographical locations. For example, in 2019 Mars began partnering with the Earthworm Foundation, WWF and peers to balance industry, conservation and social interests in the Dvinsky Forest in Russia"

Cut off date: 1993-1997. "Mars expects suppliers to meet the following guidelines to stop deforestation from a specified cut-off date: - Everything supplied to Mars is from legal sources - No deforestation or conversion of primary forest or natural ecosystems of high conservation value (HCV) - No development in high carbon stock (HCS) areas - No development on peatlands - No clearance of land by burning to prepare it for production - Work within credible, landscape-level frameworks where these exist - Provide supply chain transparency"

"To bring greater scale to this important work, we are very active in the Consumer Goods Forum's Forest Positive Coalition. Particularly, we are providing strong support to the Landscapes Working Group in order to facilitate increased investment and engagement in priority forest landscapes."

"Jurisdictional approaches Produce, Conserve and Include (PCI)[...]Please explain Integrated landscape approaches are a critical complement to supply chain management to achieve a deforestation-free transformation, especially in the most critically threatened or highest conservation value landscapes. Mars is deeply engaged with initiatives such as the Consumer Goods Forum and Tropical Forest Alliance to catalyze collective action in support of landscape approaches. These initiatives involve collaboration among multiple stakeholders in the landscape and integration of ad hoc initiatives on the ground that are addressing deforestation or landscape restoration. Mars is working with the Earthworm Foundation on stopping ecosystem degradation in pulp and paper production landscapes, including Northwest Russia and British Columbia"

"We use an internal geographic information system to overlay the raw material origins identified through supply chain mapping with areas at high risk of deforestation. We have integrated assessment of deforestation and other sustainability risks in our agricultural supply[...]Our business relies on the availability of raw materials including pulp and paper for packaging, and cocoa, palm oil, beef and soy as ingredients for our products. Our risk assessments consider how interrelated impacts such as deforestation, climate change, water and land use, will affect yields and therefore the availability and these commodities. We assess the availability of each commodity using our internal sustainability impact calculator, the risk assessment tools that form part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology, and with assistance from relevant expert third-parties including Earthworm, Proforest, and certification"

"We factor regulators into our risk assessments as part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology (MSSM). This six-step process guides our buyers on all aspects of assessing, selecting, contracting and monitoring the performance of suppliers. One such aspect is an assessment of the external environment, including political and legal risks affecting the raw material in question. Relevant factors considered within this assessment include: - Regulation and de-regulation trends - Tax policy and trade & tariff controls - Legislation in areas such as employment, competition and health and safety. - Import/export laws - Regulatory bodies and their processes - Industry specific legislation - Environmental regulations."

Mars reports commodity volumes in CDP 2021 Forest Report

Mars publishes a list of their direct pulp and paper suppliers.

"Based on the risk assessments carried out with support of Earthworm Foundation and our traceability back to at least country of harvest, we will continue to engage our suppliers in sourcing areas assessed as high risk to support concrete and scalable programs on the ground." [...] "we will: Conduct field assessments informed by areas of highest risk  Work with suppliers to put in place time-bound action plans for improvement"

"We are establishing processes for rectifying instances of deforestation in our supply chains by engaging, suspending or removing suppliers that do not come back into compliance after we notify them that they aren’t meeting Mars’ deforestation-free requirements. We are also considering what role reforestation or restoration might play in contributing to deforestation solutions."

"Our Supplier Code of Conduct is informed by the International Bill of Human Rights, the principles set forth in the International Labour Organization’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.[...]Suppliers will have in place appropriate policies, management systems, procedures, and staffing to meet the expectations in the Supplier Code of Conduct.[...]If Mars suppliers are distributors, brokers, and agents, they are expected to assure that their first-tier suppliers supplying goods for Mars also apply these standards, and to provide this assurance to Mars upon request. Suppliers to Mars are expected to provide these partners with assistance in complying with these expectations as needed."

The Farmer Income Lab In 2018, we launched the Farmer Income Lab, a collaborative “think-do tank” focused on finding practical insights needed to help eradicate smallholder poverty. This Lab is intended to be a catalyst, driving faster and more effective impact at scale within our supply chains, and amplifying our impacts by sharing our insights with others. We’re proud that Oxfam has agreed to serve as one of our advisers on this work. Maximizing Impact with the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming To further our investment in smallholder farmers, we co-founded the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming, which will invest more than $130 million to develop sustainable agriculture projects aimed at improving incomes, enhancing food security and restoring ecosystems.

"The evidence is clear – investing in gender equality benefits communities and business alike [...] Now we are developing guidance for procurement teams to more effectively and sustainably support women in communities where we source raw materials. We believe that integrating gender equity into our core procurement strategies will more effectively address the root causes of gender disparities on farms and in factories at scale [...] With support from companies including PepsiCo, McCormick, and Cargill, together with CARE Impact Partners, we’ve developed an understanding of “what works,” by analyzing twenty recent initiatives across diverse regions and raw materials. Consultations with peers and experts informed a set of Guiding Principles for prioritizing gender in procurement practices: Learn about women in your supply chain. Build gender into your procurement goals and metrics. Adapt your purchasing practices to be gender-responsive. Help your intermediary suppliers to get on board with gender equity. Layer gender transformative approaches into existing sourcing programs initiatives. Collaborate with NGO partners, the public sector, and corporate peers to drive change for women in supply chains effectively and efficiently, at scale. But these Guiding Principles are only the beginning. This year, we plan to build a Gender in Sourcing Playbook with the guidance, tools, and skills needed to design gender-transformative sourcing strategies – designed for procurement professionals. "

"Mars expects suppliers to meet the following guidelines to stop deforestation from a specified cut-off date: [...] Support existing human rights commitments including respect for farmers’ and communities’ land rights, free prior and informed consent, and the rights of indigenous and forest-dependent people Resolve land rights disputes through a balanced and transparent dispute resolution process"

"Human rights defenders are facing increasingly serious pressures, violence and lawsuits intended to silence them. We do not tolerate threats, intimidation, criminalization, or attacks against human rights defenders in relation to our own operations, and we expect the same of suppliers in our supply chain."

"- Ensuring 100% of the annual soy volume purchased in Brazil is ProTerra certified or covered through direct RTRS credits"

"Mars’ long-term vision is to expand our influence beyond just the supply that we use, so that our suppliers prevent deforestation and land conversion throughout their full business. There is no time to lose. Ensuring a deforestation-free supply chain for a discrete corporate “buyer” is a positive step, but we aren’t satisfied if our suppliers continue to contribute to deforestation elsewhere in their businesses."

“By 2025, our aim is to stop deforestation and conversion of natural ecosystems in Mars supply chains for our soy ingredients in Latin America — a region with high conversion hotspots. To achieve our ambition, we expect our direct soy suppliers in Latin America to meet the following requirements […] Ensure that Soy from Brazil is only sourced from suppliers that are compliant with the Amazon Soy Moratorium with a deforestation cutoff date of July 2008 for Brazilian Amazon. Maintain a deforestation cutoff date of June 2016 for other regions in Latin America, in line with RTRS. This includes forests (including high carbon stock forests), and other types of natural ecosystem (including savannahs and other areas of high conservation value) which can be monitored.”

"We engage across our industry (peer companies and suppliers) and continue playing an active role in the development of the CGF Forest Positive Coalition of Action Soy Roadmap to drive improvements at scale (...). Through the participation in ACT Commodities� regional approach we support farmers in specific regions in Brazil: Maranh�o, Piaui, Mato Grosso"

"We use an internal geographic information system to overlay the raw material origins identified through supply chain mapping with areas at high risk of deforestation. We have integrated assessment of deforestation and other sustainability risks in our agricultural supply[...]Our business relies on the availability of raw materials including pulp and paper for packaging, and cocoa, palm oil, beef and soy as ingredients for our products. Our risk assessments consider how interrelated impacts such as deforestation, climate change, water and land use, will affect yields and therefore the availability and these commodities. We assess the availability of each commodity using our internal sustainability impact calculator, the risk assessment tools that form part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology, and with assistance from relevant expert third-parties including Earthworm, Proforest, and certification"

"“We factor regulators into our risk assessments as part of the Mars Strategic Sourcing Methodology (MSSM)…. Relevant factors considered within this assessment include: - Regulation and de-regulation trends - Tax policy and trade & tariff controls - Legislation in areas such as employment, competition and health and safety. - Import/export laws - Regulatory bodies and their processes - Industry specific legislation - Environmental regulations"

"In 2020, Mars* sourced 124,766 metric tons of direct soy. The following key performance indicators demonstrate where we are in our journey towards meeting our commitment for 100% of direct soy by 2025 [...] *Considers the total amount of direct purchases of soy products in Mars Petcare, which accounts for the material portion (94%) of the total soy supply to Mars." Volume differs in CDP 2021 questionnaire which reports 124,800 tons. [...] "% of total production/consumption volume certified 19%"

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Suppliers List Brazil and Argentina

"In addition to what we expect from our direct soy suppliers, Mars is taking the following actions to address deforestation: Verifying all direct suppliers’ compliance with this Action Plan through third-party verification of the trader or crusher purchase control system. Verification frequency might be determined by suppliers’ risks to policy breaches"

"Response to supplier non-compliance include: 1) Retain & engage 2) Exclude. Procedures to address and resolve non-compliance with suppliers include: "Developing time-bound targets and milestones to bring suppliers back into compliance. Providing information on appropriate actions that can be taken to address noncompliance. Assessing the efficacy and efforts of non-compliant supplier actions through consistent and quantified metrics. Re-integrating suppliers back into supply chain based on the successful and verifiable completion of activities"