China Resources

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritizing its most relevant sustainability impacts and shares the outcomes of this process in relation to its sustainability strategy. This process primarily assesses the social responsibility efforts of its business units using two key factors: the preparation of CSR reports and actual CSR practices. It regularly identifies material CSR issues and systematically reviews its social responsibility initiatives through stakeholder interviews.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets/objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to set a time-bound target for reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, and report progress towards these targets. It is unclear from the parent company report whether the company has reduced its scope 1 and 2 emissions from the previous year. Furthermore, the company has the opportunity to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. This can be achieved by setting a time-bound target to reduce these emissions and reporting on progress. The company’s scope 3 emissions targets can also align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it provides nutritional information on its products and how it supports consumers with making healthy food choices through its labelling schemes.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and establish an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has set up initiatives to improve the productivity of the farms but it could to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
The company has the opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It can also disclose the procedures it employs to identify and address bribery and corruption in its own operations, and establish a confidential and anonymous grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns without fear of reprisal.

Additionally, the company could transparently disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, stating it does not make political contributions, and revealing its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment on respecting the health and safety of its workers in both its operations and supply chain. It could also demonstrate how it monitors its suppliers’ health and safety performance. The company has the chance to disclose a deadline for achieving a living wage, or confirm it has achieved this goal. In addition, it could detail how it determines a living wage for the regions it operates in, and how it supports its suppliers to pay this wage standard.

Furthermore, while the company has a statement on gender equality and women’s empowerment, it could place this commitment in a public policy document. The company has the opportunity to disclose time-bound targets on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The company could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
While the company has a policy statement committing to respecting human rights, it could use a stronger language to turn this statement into a formal commitment. The company’s current policy statement commits to respecting specific workers’ rights, but it has the opportunity to reference all the fundamental rights at work as declared by the ILO. Furthermore, it could disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to make a similar commitment.

In addition, the company has the opportunity to describe its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its own operations and supply chain. Moreover, it would be beneficial for the company to describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company could establish a global system to take action on, prevent, or mitigate its salient human rights issues.