Facilitating responsible sourcing due diligence

UEBT works to guide and support companies along the supply chain to respond to evolving rules on responsible sourcing due diligence, promoting active collaboration with suppliers in sourcing risk mitigation.

UEBT member companies commit to managing risks for people and biodiversity and also need to respond to growing due diligence policies around the world. Many of these rules initially apply to larger companies and widely traded commodities, but as significant biodiversity impacts and dependencies occur in botanicals sourcing areas, these rules will certainly affect many smaller companies along the supply chain as well as more specialty ingredients.

UEBT supports companies with guidance, tools and support to manage risks, in line with the global UEBT standard.

Due diligence consists of several components, including assessing country and ingredient risks, and also assessing risks in specific supply chains.  UEBT offers three tools to support this:

1. UEBT supplier due diligence platform

2. UEBT responsible sourcing risk database

3. UEBT Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) due diligence database

UEBT supplier due diligence platform

The UEBT supplier due diligence platform is a tool that maps 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. It is one of the few due diligence tools that focuses on very important field-based risks at the production level – related to workers, pickers, producers and their local environment. To schedule a demonstration of the platform, write to membership@uebt.org

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 botanicals.  It provides specific risk scores on a set of environmental and social issues from within the UEBT standard, with detailed risk scores for each at the ingredient and 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.  The risk profiles are created based on reliable data sources, and also first-hand field observations of conventional, uncontrolled practices in that specific ingredient. To schedule a demonstration of the risk database, write to impact@uebt.org

UEBT Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) due diligence database

This tool supports businesses in their due diligence on ABS. The tool is a continuously updated database with information on existing rules on ABS around the world and insights into their scope, requirements and practical application. To learn more, write to abs@uebt.org

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