Contents Foreword Management report Corporate governance Consolidated Financial Statements Company Financial Statements Pillar 3
Overview of 10 value chains and the role of Rabobank in 2016:
Value chain Member RT/Initiative
Rabobank highlights 2016
Beef Global Roundtable Sustainable Beef (GRSB)
Brazil Livestock Roundtable (GTPS)
- Active in discussions on Brazil guidelines for sustainable livestock production.
- Participating in multiple meetings of the GTPS.
- We published a joint report with WWF on Integrated Crop-Live Stock-Forest Systems
addressing a more climate-friendly approach to cattle farming.
Biomaterials
Cocoa
Coffee
Dairy
Forestry
Palm oil
Seafood
Associate member EU Biobased industries consortium
Associate member Dutch biorefinery cluster
Host of third Agri Meets Chemical Conference
Host of European conference on bioeconomy
http://biconsortium.eu/news/bic-welcomes-25-new-members
http://www.dutchbiorefinerycluster.nl/over-dbc--apc/
geassocieerde-leden
Member Global Coffee Platform (previously 4C which is now
integrated in this platform)
Advisory council Global Dairy Agenda for Action (GDAA) and
Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF)
http://dairysustainabilityframework.org/wp-content/
uploads/2016/10/Rabobank IN574 Dairy and the
Sustainable Development Goals Bellamy Bogdan Oct2016.
pdf
Banking Environment Initiative
https://www.rabobank.com/nl/about-rabobank/in-society/
sustainability/vision-and-policy/vision-sustainably-successful-
together.html
Member Of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil - RSPO
Board: http://www.rspo.org/about/who-we-are/board-of-
governors and http://www.rspo.org/about/who-we-are/
board-of-governors/alternate-members
Partner ASC and through ASC with Global Salmon Initiative
Initiative
Partnership WWF/Rabobank
http://www.asc-aqua.org/partners&supporters
https://www.rabobank.com/nl/about-rabobank/in-society/
sustainability/partnership-wnf/index.html
Rabobank has continued its role as partner and fuelled the possibilities with
Biomaterials by hosting the third AgriMeetsChemicals Conference in close
coordination with Deloitte. See: https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/
manufacturing/events/agri-meets-chemicals-conference.html
Further at the request of the EU commission and the Dutch presidency in 2016 we
hosted the bioeconomy conference in Utrecht in April. Wiebe Draijer acted as one of
the key note speakers.
http://www.bioeconomyutrecht2016.eu/programmetspeakers
- Multiple deals with cocoa traders to support smallholders through supply chain
finance with Rabobank Foundation.
- Multiple partnerships with cocoa traders and companies, NGO's to support
smallholders through supply chain finance capacity building of coops with
Rabobank Foundation and Rabo Development.
Rabobank also joined the Global Coffee Platform that was launched in April 2016.
The Global Coffee Platform (GCP) is the multi-stakeholder sustainable coffee platform
that unites stakeholders in a non-competitive approach working towards a thriving,
sustainable sector. Rabobank is actively participating and sharing input with this new
Global Coffee Platform and driving the sustainability coffee agenda forward also in
its relations with our clients. http://www.globalcoffeeplatform.org/membership/our-
membership).
Another example is our golden sponsorship of the Annual Swiss Coffee Trade
Association meeting, where the Future of Coffee Trading and 'Climate change and
Coffee: Risk and Response' were two themes on the agenda for panel discussion, in
which Rabobank participated. The coffee infographic was presented here.
As part of our work on DSF we published an Industry Note on the SDGs and the DSF's
work and necessary work on this. Also working with WWF and Friesland Campina
working on biodiversity projects enhancing a framework for KPIs incorporating
biodiversity for the value chain. See:
https://www.oneworld.nl/business/partnerships/frieslandcampina-wnf-en-rabobank-
werken-samen-aan-biodiversiteit-landbouw
The Banking Environment Initiative (BEI): The BEI is an initiative that is comprised of
global banking institutions stretching across Asia, Europe, the United States and Latin
America. Together with our members, the BEI has looked into determining how banks
might best align with our deforestation commitment. Its overriding mission is to lead
the banking industry in collectively directing capital towards environmentally and
socially sustainable economic development.
Rabobank contributed to working groups on making smallholders more sustainable
Rabobank participated in the Financial Institution Task Force
We published our vision on Sustainable Palm Oil
In 2016 we shared our views on the Global Salmon Initiative.
http://globalsalmoninitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/AquaSur-
Rabobank-2016.pdf
Rabobank supports the ASC through its Impact Loan initiative with EIB.
https://www.rabobank.nl/images/overzicht-duurzaamheidskeurmerken 29800042.
pdf
With WWF we support a project on ASC and salmon in Chile.
See monitoring plan 2016 Steering Group WWF/Rabo partnership
Soy
Member Of the Roundtable for Sustainable Soy - acting
President of the Executive Board in 2016
http://www.responsiblesoy.org/about-rtrs/governance/
executive-board/?lang=en
Chair of the 11th annual conference of RTRS
http://www.responsiblesoy.org
Sugar Cane
Bonsucro
http://bonsucro.com/site/members/list-of-members/
Main work with Bonsucro relates to our partnership in India with WWF and partner with
EID Parry. See article Bonsucro as well as monitoring report steering committee WWF/
Rabo.
http://bonsucro.com/site/dhampur-india-an-organic-revolution-for-smallholders/
Public affairs
Due to the crucial role financial institutions play, we engage
with all our stakeholders on a broad range of topics that impact
the opportunities to finance our clients. These include the
operation and design of the banking industry and policies and
bills in the financial sector as well as other regulatory initiatives.
The topics we covered with our stakeholders in 2016
include Payments Services Directive 2, capital standards,
how to resolve institutions, developments in lending to the
economy, initiatives with regard to duty of care, special asset
management and developments around solving outstanding
issues with derivatives for SMEs. These discussions were held
75 Our output and impact: engaging with stakeholders
