
For suppliers
Sustainability matters to us. It’s at the heart of who we are and what we do. Because we care about People. Planet. Paint., we expect suppliers to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability as well.
We’ve identified three key global topics – climate change, circularity, health and well-being – and made a commitment to future generations that we’ll do everything we can to address them.
We believe in working together to find inventive ways to make a positive contribution to an ever-changing world. This isn’t a “nice to have” – it’s vital, if we’re to realize our science-based target of halving our carbon emissions by 2030 and respecting internationally recognized human rights throughout our value chain.
As a member of Together for Sustainability (TFS) we have been proactively managing the sustainability performance and risk management of our suppliers since 2014.
The TfS initiative provides infrastructure for one-line assessments carried out by EcoVadis – the partner of TfS and AkzoNobel – and on-site audits.
Both programs are based on international standards and cover key sustainability areas like Environment, Labor and Human Rights, Health and Safety, Ethics and Responsible Supply Chains
The results of audits and assessments are shared across all TfS members, which helps our suppliers to limit the amount of assessment/audit.
In scope are suppliers operating in risk regions or industries.
We use our SSBS to collect eco-performance KPIs on waste, energy and greenhouse gas emissions information including Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) in line the TfS PCF Guideline. This is to ensure that suppliers with a high impact on our carbon emission support us on our SBTi target of reducing carbon emission by 50% by 2030 (2018 baseline).
*Across the value chain (Baseline 2018)
**Suppliers with a global spend of more than €250,000 that work in a risk category or country, or have a global spend of more than €1 million (irrespective of their risk rating) are in scope for Together for Sustainability (TfS) assessment and audits
***Transparency of identified high-risk materials regarding their potential impact on human rights