Benefits to Your Company
Corporate users of palm oil derivatives seeking to strengthen supply chain resilience through responsible, deforestation-free sourcing practices face barriers to driving change, including limited transparency and leverage, and fragmented supplier engagement.
Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD) brings together companies in the cosmetics, home and personal care, and oleochemicals industries to achieve a palm derivatives supply chain that upholds No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) principles; respects human rights; and supports local l ivel ihoods.
ASD is designed to help palm oil derivatives users:
- Achieve value chain transparency down to refinery, mil l, and plantation levels
- Maximize the potential for success in reaching NDPE goals by sharing solutions specific to the constraints of the derivatives supply chain
- Harmonize requirements for supply chain players on transparency, risk monitoring, and evaluation to better support commitments to deforestation-free and responsible sourcing
- Contribute to the development and launch of new tools, methodologies, and field projects
- Increase the leverage of influence of the derivatives supply chain by ampl ifying the sector's voice
How We Work
ASD, co-managed and co-facilitated by BSR and Transitions, brings together companies to collectively tackle supply chain issues around palm oil and palm kernel oil derivatives through four major workstreams:
Positive Impact
Scaling long-term strategic action in key production landscapes
Transparency
Increasing supply chain transparency and consolidating a common framework to focus efforts
Risk and Grievances Management
Leveraging dynamic monitoring systems and actively managing non-compliance
Supply and Market Transformation
Engaging the sector toward accessible deforestation-free solutions