Climate & Refrigerants: 

• Submit annual greenhouse gas emission data, including hydrofluorocarbon emissions, to the Carbon Disclosure Project and share science-based targets to reach carbon neutral operations.  
• Commit to a companywide average refrigerant leak rate of below 10 percent and report annual progress on a public platform.  
• Commit to phase out HFCs from all operations and facilities by 2030 and publish progress towards goal each year.  
• Commit to only using HFC-free systems in all new stores or facilities and use only zero or near-zero GWP refrigerants.  
• Issue a detailed annual sustainability report listing progress on the above goals and other methods to increase energy efficiency of Trader Joe’s refrigeration systems.  

Labor & Cocoa: 

• Increased transparency; publicly disclose the first and second tiers of its chocolate supply chain.  
• Require all cocoa suppliers sourcing out of West Africa to be using a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS). 
• Issue an annual sustainability report (not a blog post), describing how it is supporting a sustainable chocolate industry and what indicators are used to measure success of their efforts.  
• Increase compensation for cocoa farmers and disclose how Trader Joe’s is supporting efforts to pay cocoa farmers a living income. 
• Support the call for US and EU mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence regulation.   
• Commit to no deforestation by 2022 throughout the entire supply chain and develop a robust agroforestry policy, particularly for those areas deforested due to industry practices, including where cocoa is grown in West Africa.  
• Respect all workers’ rights from those in your stores to those at the end of the supply chain. This includes stopping any anti-union behavior or union busting. Ensure all workers in the supply chain have proper PPE, hazard pay, and paid sick leave in the time of COVID-19 and thereafter.