Building Sustainability

At Certis Belchim, sustainability lies at the heart of everything we do. Guided by a thorough materiality analysis, we have three strategic axes—Environment, Social, and Governance—to structure our sustainability efforts. Each axis is further divided into key themes, leading to 6 strategic priorities with a clear actionable plan, and detailed road map.

Climate change mitigation

  • Work towards a net zero carbon footprint by 2050

Responsible Supply Chain

  • Embed sustainability within selection criteria & code of conduct for suppliers
  • Fully embrace industry initiatives related to sustainability
  • Reduce carbon footprint across the supply chain, starting with warehousing and logistics activities

Climate Strategy

  • Work towards a net zero carbon footprint by 2050

Responsible Supply Chain

  • Embed sustainability within selection criteria & code of conduct for suppliers
  • Be at the forefront of industry initiatives realted to sustainability
  • Reduce carbon footprint across the supply chain, starting with warehousing and logistics activities

Employee Engagement

  • Attract and retain top talent
  • Living the Certis Belchim values
  • Support a learning & growth mindset

Customer Relationship

  • Be a supplier choice for our customers
  • Be an industry leader in the biorational segments
  • Be at the forefront of industry initiatives that promote the sustainable use of crop protection products
  • Support growers to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of their crop protection programmes

Employee Engagement

  • Attract and retain top talent
  • Living the Certis Belchim values
  • Support a learning & growth mindset

Customer Relationship

  • Be a supplier choice for our customers
  • Be an industry leader in the biorationals segments
  • Be at the forefront of industry initiatives that promote the sustainable use of crop protection product
  • Support growers to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of their crop protection programmes

Sustainable Product Innovation

  • Embed sustainability in the selection criteria of our innovation pipeline process
  • Constantly increase the sustainability profile of our portfolio

Good Governance

  • Focus on ICT security and protection
  • Risk management
  • Security Trade Control (Export/sanction management)

Sustainable Product Innovation

  • Embed sustainability in the selection criteria of the innovation pipeline process
  • Consistently increase the sustainability profile of our portfolio

Good Governance

  • Focus ICT security and protection
  • Risk management
  • Security Trade Control (Export/sanction management)

Advancing Crop Protection: A Collaborative Future

As we work toward a more sustainable future, combining chemical and biological products is key to protecting crops and increasing yields. While chemical solutions remain important, biological innovations are gaining ground.

Mark Waltham, CEO of Certis Belchim, highlights: “We see ourselves as a bridge between farmers, advisers, and researchers, driving biological innovation to market.”

Through collaboration with researchers, universities, and startups, Certis Belchim is committed to delivering effective, sustainable solutions for modern crop protection.

Certis Belchim Sustainability Achievements Fiscal Year 2025:

At Certis Belchim, Sustainability lies at the heart of everything we do. We established the three strategic axis : Environment, Social, and Governance to structure our sustainability efforts. Each axis is further divided into 6 strategic priorities for the company with a clear actionable plan and detailed road map. In this report, we are pleased to share the progress and sustainable achievements that were delivered by the company from April 2024 to March 2025.

Sustainability goal

FY25 achievements

ENVIRONMENT

Climate strategy
• Work towards a net zero carbon footprint by 2050.
• Reduce annually Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG footprint by 4% 

Responsible Supply Chain
• Embed sustainability within selection criteria & code of conduct for suppliers.
• Be at the forefront of undustry initiatives related to sustainability.
• Reduce carbon footprints across the supply chain, starting with warehousing and logistic activities.

Climate strategy
• We reached -3.6% reduction scope 1& 2 GHG emissions from target -4%
• Methodology scope 3 GHG emission defined for supply chain

Responsible Supply Chain
• Sustainability selection criteria and Code of conduct have been established for suppliers
• First waste management report was delivered for FY25
• Easy Connect initiative implementation was delayed to FY26 due to unavailability of UN certified bottle/cans. Production starts in Sept 2025
• A project initiative was achieved with some of our biggest warehouse contractors to
exchange information on methodology scope 3 GHG emissions

Sustainability goal

FY25 achievements

SOCIAL

Employee Engagement
• Attract and retain top talent.
• Living the Certis Belchim Values.
• Support a Learning & Growth mindset.

Customer Relationship
• Be a supplier choice for your customers.
• Be an indusrty leader in the biorationals segment.
• Be at the forefront of industry initiatives that promote the sustainable use of crop protection products.
• Support growers to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of their crop protectionprograms.

Employee Engagement
• Achieved 94,5% employee retention overall
• Implemented learnings and action plan from last employee survey and a new employee survey is in preparation 2026
• 95% participation to the Core Values program
• 100% employee participation to the Performance & Development management process
• Certis Belchim Learning academy launched with several programs
• 76% employee participation in Learning Academy modules during the 1st year
• Stable and consistent recruitment process in place, new tool Oracle implemented

Customer Relationship
• Customer Survey done and feedback shared at the Global Strategic Conference attended by all managers . Action plan under implementation.
• Certis Belchim Biorationals products reached 19 % turnover in FY25 vs 15% in FY24
• Customer perception on Certis Belchim’s Biorational leadership was established from the customer survey results
• Met Agri Guide initiative under Crop life Europe Industry association guidance
• Expansion of Growing For The Future program started Poland and Portugal during FY25

Sustainability goal

FY25 achievements

GOVERNANCE

Sustainable Product Innovation
• Embed sustainability in the selection criteria of the innovation pipeline process.
• Consistently increase the sustainability profile of our portfolio.

Good Governance
• Focus ICT security and protection.
• Risk management
• Security Trade Control (Export/Sanction Management)

Sustainable Product Innovation
• A new integrated sustainable assessment tool was prepared and delivered in FY25 to
evaluate Certis Belchim product pipeline
• The assessment of product pipeline with this sustainable tool is planned for FY26

Good Governance
• Action plan to reach the highest possible data protection was executed to mitigate risks. Improvement steps were delivered: zero trust policy implementation, Microsoft secure score improved from 73% to 81%, Successful assessment NIS 2.0 compliancy.
• Cyber security awareness program for employees has been executed (88% score for March 2025 program)
• Mitsui audit completed in March 2025
• First independent report Fraud Risk Assessment (J-SOX) prepared for submission in October 2025
• A new Power App pilot has been made for Decision Table (sanction check for Export Management – Security Trade Control) and testing is on-going
• 100% Code of Conduct annual training completion by all employees