Sustainability Metrics

ICL aspires for best practices in the management of all ESG components. Following are the main sustainability quantitative KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) from recent years, and related trend analysis.

Governance

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ICL adopts best practices and advanced management techniques for Corporate Governance. Among else, the company values the importance of gender diversity and adequate representation within the Board of Directors. Accordingly, the Company will strive to increase gender diversity of the Board.

Board & Governance Information
Total Number of Directors	10
Number of Non-Executive Directors on Board	10
Number of External Directors*	2
Number of Independent Directors**	4
Separate Chair and CEO	Yes
Board Meetings Held in 2020	22
Renewal & Diversity
Annual Election of Directors	Yes
Average Age of Directors	59.7
Women Board Members***	2

* The definition of “external directors” is pursuant to the Israeli Companies Law, 5759-1999 (the “Companies Law”).

** Five Directors are independent directors under the rules applicable to U.S companies listed on the NYSE. Four are independent according to Israeli regulations.

*** Since January 2020, the ICL Board of Directors has 10 members, two women and eight men. See below the company's statement on board gender diversity.

Economic Performance

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	units	2018	2019	2020
Sales	$ millions	5,556	5,271	5,043
Operating Income (loss)	$ millions	1,519	756	202
Employees*	#	12,125	12,117	11,744
Employees Unionized	%	70%	68%	68%
ISO 9001 or an eqv. standard for quality	% of production sites certified	93%	95%	95%

* Employee numbers in the table above include some long-term contract workers and student employees.

Environmental Performance

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The Company routinely invests in capital projects in the areas of environmental protection, health and safety, and also incurs current costs in connection with these issues. In 2020, ICL invested approximately $103 million on environmental matters, of which approximately $41 million were capital projects in property, plant and equipment and approximately $62 million were current expenses.

		units	2018	2019	2020
Environmental Protection Spending	Investments	$ millions	43.8	51.1	41
	Expenditures	$ millions	67.2	62.3	62
Certification	ISO 14001 or an eqv. standard for environmental management	% of production sites certified	91%	93%	93%
	ISO 50001 or an eqv. standard for energy	% of energy intensive production sites certified	35%	65%	82%

Energy

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A major decrease in total energy consumption was due to cessation of the Vilafruns mine in Spain and a decrease in activity in some ICL sites due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Direct energy consumption decreased by 7% between 2019 to 2020.
Indirect energy decreased by 18% between 2017 and 2020, and by 4% between 2018 (baseline) and 2020.
As ICL’s new Sdom CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant came into full use, there was an increase in the fuels (direct energy) that ICL consumes. But there was also a major decrease in the amount of external electricity (indirect energy) that the Company consumes. The new plant commenced operations in August 2018.
A significant amount of electricity from the new plant is also sold by ICL to the Israeli national grid and to external customers (an overall 559K MWh in 2020, representing approximately 30% of the plant’s produced electricity). In accordance with the GRI methodology, the amount of electricity sold to the Israeli national grid was subtracted from ICL’s total energy figures.
The overall renewable energy usage by ICL Globally in 2020 was 1,120K GJ (=311 GWh). In other words, 21% of the Company’s global indirect energy consumption, and 3% of its overall energy (direct+indirect) consumption, was derived from renewable sources in 2020.

	units	2018	2019	2020
Total energy use	GJ (millions)	35	34.7	32
Direct	GJ (millions)	28.9	31.4	28.7
Indirect	GJ (millions)	6.43	5.2	5.3
Electricity	GJ (millions)	5.7	4.1	4.3
Natural Gas	GJ (millions)	26	28	26

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The Company has approved an updated sustainability vision (vs. a 2018 baseline). As part of this process ICL has updated the scope of its companies that are included as part of the GHG emissions reporting. Companies that have been divested are not included in the baseline reporting nor in the GHG emissions reporting of following years.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions have been reduced by 10% compared with the 2018 base year emissions. Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions were reduced by 7% in 2020 compared to 2019, surpassing the annual target of 3% YOY (year-on-year) reduction.
The reduction in 2020 mostly resulted from a decrease in Scope 2 in ICL Europe sites. Some of this decrease was the result of the Company’s initiative to purchase 100% renewable electricity (from the beginning of 2019) for the majority of ICL sites in Europe (more details here). Even in sites where ICL did not purchase 100% renewable electricity in 2019, most suppliers to ICL Europe sites have been reducing the emission intensity of their electricity consumption, resulting in lower emission factors and lower indirect emissions.
An additional decrease in 2020 was due to cessation of the Vilafruns mine in Spain and a decrease in activity in some ICL sites due to the COVID-19 crisis.
A significant amount of electricity from the new plant was sold by ICL to the Israel Electric Company, (national grid) and other external customers (an overall of 559K MWh in 2020, approx. 30% of the plant’s produced electricity).
Overall, total GHG emissions in ICL Israel decreased by 11.6% (~240k tonnes CO2e) in 2020 (during which the new power plant was fully operational) compared to 2018 (baseline). However, the electricity produced by ICL for external customers replaced the generation of more carbon-intensive electricity by less efficient power plants. Therefore, in a broader perspective, the new power plant allows for a reduction of the overall climate impact on the State of Israel (in addition to other environmental benefits).

			2018	2019	2020
GHG	Scope 1	CO2e tonnes (thousands)	2,220	2,331	2,136
	Scope 2	CO2e tonnes (thousands)	720	456	428
	*Total scope 1+2 GHG emission	CO2e tonnes (thousands)	2,940	2,787	2,564

			2018	2019	2020
GHG	**Scope 3	CO2e tonnes (thousands)	93	86	53

*ICL has conducted a 3-party assurance to the Scope 1 & 2 emissions of the baseline year for its decarbonization targets (FY 2018). As part of the assurance process, the scope and boundaries were updated to follow GHG Protocol guidelines and cover ICL's properties worldwide.

**Emissions of scope 3 include, wastes, logistics and employee travel. It was recalculated as there was found to be a duplication in the logistics calculations. ICL is reassessing its Scope 3 emissions and expects it to include a broader scope in the 2021 reports.

Air Emissions

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15% reduction of Global NOx emissions from point sources by 2022 compared to 2016. By 2020, a 4.6% reduction was achieved (27% of the target).35% reduction of Global SOx emissions from point sources by 2020 compared to 2016. By 2020, a 58% reduction was achieved (target achieved and surpassed, due to active reduction measures).
40% reduction of ICL Israel Ammonia (NH3) emissions from point sources by 2020 compared to 2016. By 2019, a 87% reduction was achieved (target achieved and surpassed, due to active reduction measures.

The main reduction steps completed and expected in the near future:

2019: Conducted full-year operation of a highly efficient boiler in the new Sdom power plant (completed)
2019: Installed improved catalysts at the second ICL Rotem sulphuric acid plant (completed)
2019: Implemented new Ammonia treatment technology at the Ammonium Nitrate facility stack, Haifa F&C (completed)
2021: Implement new NOx treatment technology at the Nitrous Acid facility stack, Haifa F&C. This reduction measure was originally planned for 2019, but the site has since found a better technological solution that will reduce N2O emissions in addition to the planned NOx. In coordination and with approval from the Israeli authorities, the new technology is now being implemented and is due to be fully operational by mid-2021
2022: Phase out oil shale – switch to natural gas at ICL Rotem PMA.

			2018	2019	2020
Air	NOx	tonnes (thousands)	1.5	1.4	1.5
	SOx	tonnes (thousands)	4	2.9	2.5
	PM	tonnes (thousands)	0.94	0.58	0.53
	VOC	tonnes (thousands)	0.069	0.075	0.086
	NH3	tonnes (thousands)	0.087	0.032	0.006

Water & Wastewater

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Overall global ICL water consumption (potable + non-potable) remained almost identical between 2019 and 2020,with a slight reduction of 1%. The overall decrease in 2020 was due to the cessation of the Vilafruns mine in Spain.
Total global ICL wastewater output decreased by 2% in 2020 vs. 2019. The reduction was mostly derived from the cessation of operations by ICL Iberia at the Vilafruns mine in Spain.

		2018	2019	2020
Total water use	m3 (millions)	72.2	71.9	71
Potable	m3 (millions)	19.2	18.5	18.6
Non-potable	m3 (millions)	53	53.4	52.4
Grid (Municipal) water use	m3 (millions)	17.4	16.7	15.3
Wastewater discharge	m3 (millions)	21.7	21.4	21

Waste

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Non-Hazardous waste: There are no clear trends regarding the amount of waste produced in ICL’s plants. Amounts can vary significantly over the years. The main reasons are large amounts of waste usually created during one-time construction/renovation projects, and certain waste types which are accumulated in storage ponds or other areas for several years before being transferred for treatment by external professional companies. Non-haz waste quantities decreased by 12% in 2020 due to such reasons, but have remained almost without change between 2018-2019.
Hazardous waste: Can also significantly fluctuate between years since certain waste types are accumulated for several years prior to being transferred for treatment by external professional companies. This explains the 2020 trend, as the overall ICL hazardous waste quantities increased by 16% vs. 2019. Large amounts of hazardous waste, accumulated over several years, were sent for treatment by Israeli sites.

			2018	2019	2020
Waste	Total Waste	tonnes (thousands)	62.3	65.2	67.5
	Total Haz Waste	tonnes (thousands)	25.8	28.4	36.5
	Total Non-Haz waste	tonnes (thousands)	36.5	36.8	31
	Landfill - Haz Waste	%	62%	66%	66%
	Recycling/Reuse - Haz Waste	%	30%	25%	23%
	Landfill - Non-Haz Waste	%	51%	49%	33%
	Recycling/Reuse - Non-Haz Waste	%	48%	48%	52%

Diversity

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To ensure that ICL achieves its goal of promoting gender equality, ICL is implementing and monitoring the following diversity KPI’s, and has set the following quantitative Diversity Goals to be reached by 2024. Most of the KPI’s have shown improvement between 2019 and 2020.

	2019	2020	2024 Target
Women in the Overall Workforce	18%	19%	20%
Women in Senior Positions	19%	20%	30%
Women in Senior Management	14%	17%	25%
Women in ICL Board of Directors	10%	20%	25%
Women participation in Global Management Development Courses	30%	25%	30%

Health & Safety

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The Company set an annual target of reducing IR global rate by 10% compared to the previous year. This year the IR global rate was reduced by 2% for Company employees and by 5% for contractor employees.
Calculations of both IR and SI rates are conducted based on a 200,000 factor (multiplied by total company employee lost workday cases and absent days, respectively). Total accidents increased by 4% in 2020 compared to 2019. The number for Company employees has remained constant, and the number of accidents among contractor employees has increased by 11%.
Despite ICL’s continued efforts to reduce work accidents at its sites, in June 2020 (June 4 and June 25) two fatal events occurred involving contractor workers at ICL Iberpotash’s Vilafruns mine in Spain. See details and actions taken following this event here.

	units	2018	2019	2020
OHSAS 18001/ISO45001 or eqv. standard for safety	% of production sites certified	89%	91%	93%
Rate of work accidents (IR Rate) direct employees		0.72	0.5	0.5
Rate of work accidents (IR Rate) contract employees		1.18	0.71	0.7
Rate of lost workdays (SI Rate) direct employees		28.45	22.94	19.77
Direct Employees Accidents	#	75	50	50
Contract Employees Accidents	#	43	26	28
Fatalities Direct Employees	#	0	0	0
Fatalities Contract Employees	#	1	1	2
Total Accidents	#	119	77	80

Community Engagement

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Total overall donations monetary and eqv. have increased by 13% in 2020. The decrease in volunteering hours occured due to COVID-19 lockdowns

Category	units	2019	2020	Change 2019-20
Monetary Donations (Global)	$ millions	7.4	9.4	27%
Monetary eqv. (donated equipment)*	$ millions	0.5	0.4	-30%
Monetary eqv. (work-time organized employee volunteer hours)	$ millions	0.8	0.3	-62%
Total Donations (Monetary+eqv.)	$ millions	8.6	9.7	13%

12.6

Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability into their reporting cycle.

Sustainability Reporting Disclosures:

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Sustainability Metrics

Governance

Economic Performance

Environmental Performance

Energy

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Air Emissions

Water & Wastewater

Waste

Diversity

Health & Safety

Community Engagement

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