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Extra-Financial Performance Report 2020 Groupe Roullier Extra-Financial Performance Report 2020 Groupe Roullier A GROUP WITH REAL COMMITMENT 22 23 THE CHALLENGES TO BE MET in making agriculture more sustainable and efficient AS GLOBAL AWARENESS OF THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY INCREASES, THE WORLD IS BEGINNING TO QUESTION TODAY’S MANUFACTURING, AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD INDUSTRY MODELS. THESE BUSINESS SECTORS ARE NOW HAVING TO TRANSFORM THEMSELVES TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX WORLD GRIPPED BY MULTIFACETED ECONOMIC, DEMOGRAPHIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH. F or this growth to become the long-term sustainable reality for our planet, agriculture must play a decisive role in leading the transformation process and identifying collective solutions that simultaneously address the needs of our planet and our societies. SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES OF HIGH-QUALITY FOOD By 2050, the world population will have grown to 10 billion, and global demand for food will have increased by 50%. This prospect will have a major impact, given that estimates already suggest that around 690 million people - 8.9% of the world’s population - will have gone hungry in 2019. The health, economic and social consequences of COVID-19 are expected to have added between 83 and 132 million more people to this trend in 2020. At the same time, expansion of the middle classes and urban population growth are likely to accelerate the current trend towards naturalness, healthier food and the “no” culture: no pesticides, no GMOs, no artificial ingredients, etc. Consumers will become increasingly focused on authentic produce that is less processed and comes with high traceability. The agricultural challenge will then be twofold, depending on the COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE As an industrial company, every link in our value chain generates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, from the process of extracting our raw materials to transporting them, the energy we consume and our production processes. So through our contribution to SDG 13 (Climate Action), we are intensifying our ongoing efforts to identify new solutions that favour carbon storage, further optimise our transport solutions and ensure the continuous adaptation of our industrial model. Lastly, SDGs 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) provide essential levers for us to respond effectively to all the challenges discussed above. country: to produce sufficient quantities of food, at the same time as meeting demand for high quality and nutritional diversity. In responding to these major challenges, SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) aims to “end hunger and malnutrition by providing access to sufficient quantities of safe, nutritious food for all” in order to establish the right to “an adequate standard of living, including adequate food”. Our contribution to achieving this goal is inextricably linked to our core business and represents tremendous market opportunities going forward: promoting responsible agriculture and food that is accessible to all, at the same time as limiting waste and the impact on biodiversity. 50% the forecast increase in world food demand by 2050 Source: Creating a Sustainable Food Future, UN, World Bank, CIRAD and INRA, July 2019 8.9% the share of the world’s population that will have gone hungry in 2019 Source: Report on SDG indicators under FAO custodianship, FAO 2020 80% the proportion of consumers who want to know the provenance of the food they eat Source: ADEME/GreenFlex survey, September 2019 40% of the world’s land surface is threatened by soil degradation Source: the ‘4 for 1000’ initiative 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) originate in agriculture Source: 2020 FAOSTAT Emissions Shares 40% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030 (compared with 1990 levels) to be achieved by all EU countries under the terms of the Paris climate agreement Source: Paris 2016 Agreement 2 billion people worldwide live in countries subject to water stress Source: UN, 2018 CONSERVING GLOBAL RESOURCES Energy, water, raw materials, etc. Our most precious resources are now being consumed at an exponential rate that parallelsourdemographicandeconomic growth. Resource consumption often equals waste generation, with its widely identified negative impacts on the environment, biodiversity, communities and the economies. This is where our contribution to SDGs 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 15 (Life on Land) becomes effective, since they are fully consistent with the strategy we have implemented to act ahead of the risks posed by the depletion of raw materials by evolving our production and consumption models. It also acts as a catalyst for innovation and collaboration to promote both the circular economy and research into industrial processes that consume less energy and fewer materials. A GROUP WITH REAL COMMITMENT