Due diligence

UEBT member companies commit to managing risks for people and biodiversity including due diligence on cultivation and wild collection practices for ingredients from biodiversity. Companies also need to respond to growing due diligence policies around the world.

UEBT supports companies with practical due diligence tools to identify and manage natural raw material supply chain risks. Due diligence consists of several components, including assessing risks in supply chains and identifying specific risks at both the country and at the ingredient level. UEBT offers three tools to support this:

UEBT supplier due diligence platform
UEBT responsible sourcing risk database (download a factsheet on this page)
UEBT ABS due diligence database - learn more about this tool here.

Together these tools help companies implement clear strategies to address identified risks.

UEBT supplier due diligence platform

Very few due diligence systems include the very important field-based risks at the production level – related to workers, pickers, producers and their local environment. The UEBT supplier due diligence platform is a tool that maps these supply chain risks, going beyond questionnaires of first tier suppliers to allow suppliers to submit self-assessments of social and biodiversity risks based on the critical requirements from the UEBT standard.

UEBT responsible sourcing risk database

The UEBT responsible sourcing risk database is an online tool tailored to the particular social, environmental and economic risks related to ingredients from biodiversity. It provides specific risk scores on a set of environmental and social issues at the ingredient level and at the country level. It contains more than 200 individual ingredient risk profiles and is growing. The database is regularly updated and allows for combining risk assessments from both the country and ingredient levels.

What makes the risk database unique?

Tailored to natural raw materials used by UEBT members
Specific information on individual natural raw materials within countries
Aligned with the UEBT standard and other UEBT tools
Allows combining assessment of ingredient and country risks
Regularly updated

What risks does it show?

The database shares ingredient-specific risks that are related to cultivation, wild collection, and local processing of specific, individual natural raw materials. The risk profiles are created based on reliable data sources, and also first-hand field observations of conventional, uncontrolled practices in that specific ingredient.

Note: this is not a database about risks found in controlled or externally validated supply chains (e.g. certified, verified, etc.). It is also not a list of UEBT members with supply chains found to be in high or low risk conditions.

I want to download risk profiles for my ingredient portfolio. What will these focus on?

The database is focused on allowing UEBT members to identify risks related to individual natural raw materials in a country. These risk profiles are specific to a natural raw material in a specific country, The risk profiles are regularly updated and cover more than 25 social and environmental topics, each given a score. The profiles also compile overall scores of high, medium and low risk for each raw material and for each of the four risk categories seen below. For example a profile might be of Peppermint in Croatia, Ginger in India, or Acai in Brazil etc.

For more information or to schedule a demonstration of the database, write to impact@uebt.org