Social stakeholder
Issue discussed
Outcome
FMO
Rabobank's Food and Agribusiness
Better understanding of Rabobanks'
Principles (in an FMO round table)
procedures
Oxfam Novib
Explanation of CSR performance
Oxfam gained insight into how Rabobank
management at Rabobank
establishes and applies policy in practice
United Nations, Global Compact Network
Rabobank's updated policy
Draft of updated human rights policy
Netherlands, Amnesty International
on human rights
F&C Investments
Rabobank's policy on defence industry
F&C Investments is now aware of Rabobank's
policy regarding the arms industry
Animal protection
Rabobank's animal welfare policy and
possible forms of collaboration
Insight into opportunities for collaboration
Friends of the circus
Rabobank's animal welfare policy
Agreement reached on approach to
regarding circuses and events
sponsorship of circuses from an animal
welfare perspective
WWF
Memorandum of understanding (MoU)
In the MoU, Rabobank and the Dutch arm of
on partnership with Rabobank
WWF expressed their ambition to enter into a
Biodiversity and ecosystem services policy
partnership in 2011In connection with this,
WWF commented on Rabobank's policy on
biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
Programme of collaboration
Identification of production chains to be
made more sustainable by working in
partnership
Dutch Soy Task Force
Support for Round Table on Reponsible
Soy (RTRS) standard for sustainable soy,
and organisation of related demand
Position paper explaining strategy in 2011
Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil
Communication-related matters
Review of quality and applicability of
(RSPO)
concerning RSPO
strategic communication plans received from
communication agencies
Greenpeace
Illegal deforestation activities in palm
It was explained to Greenpeace that
oil sector
Rabobank advocates the stricter enforcement
of the RSPO code of conduct when members
fail to comply
First Global Conference on Sustainable Beef
Sustainable meat production
An international round table on sustainable
beef was established in which Rabobank is
involved
Bonsucro
Introduction of standards for sustainable
The standard for sustainable sugar was
sugar production
approved by members at the General
Meeting
Schokland Fund
Projects to support small farmers growing
The steering group in which Rabobank
palm oil, soy and sugarcane
serves approved a series of projects to
support small soy, palm oil and sugar farmers
Corporate Leadership Coalition for
Support for poor farmers to bring about
Rabobank is one of the founding members of
Smallholder Farmer Livelihoods
a sustainable increase in living standards
this new coalition
Dutch Fair Bank Guide
Investments in renewable energy
The initiators of the Fair Bank Guide issued a
Clothing industry
report on both themes in which Dutch banks
were compared
BankTrack
Oil extraction from tar sands
Rabobank's position on this issue was
explained to BankTrack
Pew Charitable Trust
Aquaculture in Canada
Rabobank's position on this issue was
explained
Stichting Natuur Milieu Construction of new coal-fired power Rabobank contributed to a debate on the
stations in the Netherlands relevance of new coal-fired power stations
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