EuroChem

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. It engages with external stakeholders to identify the most material issues, and uses these material issues to establish sustainability priorities for its business and stakeholders.

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.

Act ethically
The company is committed to protecting personal data and makes this commitment public. To ensure transparency, the company discloses a privacy statement on how personal data is used. Moreover, the company has a strict policy in place that prohibits bribery and corruption. To address any concerns or complaints related to bribery and corruption, the company provides stakeholders with a grievance mechanism. Lastly, the company explicitly states that it does not make any political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. Its priorities preventing injuries, accidents and occupational illnesses.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers. It has a whistleblowing policy where the company commits to respect and maintain the whistleblowers’ confidentiality and anonymity.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company disclose that it has a sustainability department. Yet, it could further clarify if there are specific individuals, teams, or committees dedicated to executing its broader sustainability strategy, beyond climate and health and safety. Although the highest governance body oversees its sustainability strategy, there’s room to include oversight for social aspects beyond health and safety. 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 list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company 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 how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such 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 an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimise the use of fertilisers in its production and sourcing practices, and report progress against it.

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.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address food insecurity and malnutrition.

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 on bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. It could also disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption, along with implementing a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related complaints. Additionally, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specifying that it does not make political contributions and divulging its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers across both its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it could present evidence of its monitoring of suppliers’ adherence to health and safety standards.

Furthermore, the company can set a time-bound target for paying a living wage for all employees and clarify the living wage determination process in various operational regions. Additionally, the company could illuminate its collaboration with suppliers to ensure the implementation of living wage practices.

Moreover, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. To reinforce this commitment, it could disclose related targets while showcasing the representation of women on its highest governance body.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that explicitly pledges to respect human rights. While it has a publicly available policy statement that commits to respecting specific workers’ rights, it could reference all the fundamental rights at work outlined by the ILO. Furthermore, the company could disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to also respect these fundamental rights at work.

Moreover, the company has an opportunity to outline a process for identifying human rights risks in various locations and activities. It could also explain its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its most significant human rights issues. Finally, the company discloses a global system that it has in place to take action on, prevent, or mitigate its most significant human rights issues.