Building A Net Positive Food System /March 2023

B Corp Certified

Legal commitment to demonstrate high social and environmental performance

UN Global Compact

Committed to the Ten Principles of Human Rights, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Third-Party LCAs

Follow ISO 14040 standards, conducting Comparative LCAs including critical external reviews

Sustainable Sourcing

Vet every supplier we work with for fair and just labour practices and sustainability.

Heura’s Committed To Sustainability

You can find the UN Global Compact Ten Principles of Human Rights here.

You can find the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals here.

Fair And Just Labour And Sustainability Practices

Because we believe in a farm to fork approach to sustainability, every company Heura works with must sign legal documents committing:

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• Compliance to all laws and regulations within the countries they operate.
• All sourced products meet the quality and safety criteria
• Non-GMO soybeans or peas
• A commitment to end deforestation, and therefore, source or use deforestation-free soybeans.
• Follow ethical principles. No forced labor, all workers are of the appropriate age, work in safe and inclusive places, work the proper number of hours, are paid fairly and have the right to form and/or join trade unions.
• Thrive to reduce their environmental impact and commit to climate action.
• Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
• Promote diversity and inclusion. Discrimination based on race, origin, age, disability, gender, belief, or religion is not permitted.

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You can view our sustainable sourcing policy and statement here.

Ensuring a sustainable and ethical value chain and making accessible sustainable plant-based food to consumers.

Monitoring our footprint and developing our climate action plan. Our reduction target aligns to the SBTi, to ensure that our ambition meets latest climate science.

Sustainability Strategy aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Ensuring our raw materials are deforestation-free. Following the recent developments of science-based targets for nature, as a framework to commit to. ·

Besides these three environmental SDGs, we highlight three other SDGs to which we have an impact: SDG 8 by creating decent and inclusive work, SDG 9 with our tech innovation and SDG 17 by creating partnerships.

You can see the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals here.

In 2022, Heura overhauled the packaging for its refrigerated products with the launch of their Packaging 3.0 – comprising a 92% R-PET tray, a plastic film and an FSC-certified cardboard sleeve.

By creating the new packaging, Europe's fastest-growing plant-based meat company has achieved:

- 75% less renewable energy used

- 50% less use of fossil fuels

- 44% less non-renewable energy used

- 40% less emissions of polluting gasses used

- 14% less water consumption

Full impact results of the packaging can be found here.

This is Heura’s fifth iteration of its packaging. As new technology and resources become available, Heura will continue its mission of offering the most sustainable options.

Evolved Packaging

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HEURA’S VISION TO LEAD THE NET-POSITIVE FOOD TECH MOVEMENT

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Climate Impact

CO2 per Kg product

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SOURCE: brands websites

What means to be Net Positive?

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To give more than what we take and profiting as a result. We are here to solve societal and environmental problems in a way that is economically viable.

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• As a first step, we have assessed our carbon footprint at the organization level, including our value chain.
• We rigorously follow the ISO standard, and are verified by third-party experts.
• We’ve developed a climate action plan to reduce our emissions. Although we have much lower emissions than industry standards, we have a continuous mission to improve.
• We will be applying our reduction target to the science-based target initiative, to ensure that our ambition is aligned with the latest climate science.
• Secondly, we have assessed the environmental impact of the full Heura portfolio by performing Life Cycle Assessment.
• We analyzed the impact of our foods from the extraction of our raw materials, processing, transportation, manufacturing, retail and consumption.
• We were the first company to perform a Comparative LCA on a plant-based fish. Initial results showed 70% less impact than animal fish

Heura Food Tech Is The Future

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