Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]To ensures the consistency between the engagement activities with our sustainability strategy, that places great importance on climate change, our sustainability council plays the central role to perform coordination, initiative and control functions in relation to sustainability issues. The committee is made up of managers from all business units and functions, which sets up project groups to deal with sustainability topics that covers engagement and communication aspects.
Through their representatives, our corporate functions support the implementation of our sustainability strategy in their respective areas, such as leveraging external stakeholder engagement. The business units are also responsible for adapting our sustainability strategy to their operating needs and take charge of engagement initiatives associated with their brands and business area. On regional and national levels, managers develop and steer local engagement projects based on Henkel's sustainability strategy. Within Henkel, international management conferences and specialist committees take place regularly to share information as well as initiate new projects and approaches for the alignment and ongoing development of our sustainability policy.
In addition to internal management, we are also in close dialogues with stakeholders on a continuous basis to better understand their expectations and perspectives. In 2021, we once again conducted a comprehensive survey of our stakeholders to identify which topics have priority for them and to map the current expectations of the various stakeholder groups as part of the development of our sustainability strategy. New engagement activities could be triggered in cases of potential unalignment on our sustainability targets with the associations we are a member of. As an example, Henkel and other stakeholder groups established the Forum on Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP) in 2013 to go beyond the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standard. The objective is to address more attention to protecting secondary forests and peatland.