Mitr Phol Sugar Corp

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. Additionally, it is actively working towards lowering its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates a commitment and has policies related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It also discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses a global tax strategy, for which an executive-level individual has ultimate responsibility. It also has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding these issues.

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, as well as a statement expecting its business relationships to do the same. It discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and gender, as well as the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. It also describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and its supply chain. Additionally, the company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, and describes mitigation measures of the risks and impacts identified through such assessments. Moreover, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

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 targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. 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.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment but could further disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. While it discloses certain sustainability objectives, including those related to climate and biodiversity, there is room to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, while the company reports against some targets, 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 reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, it could report progress against its scope 1 and 2 targets and align them with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, the company could disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress against it. Lastly, it could also align its scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report on their progress against the targets.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
While the company discloses the total volume of water withdrawn for part of its operation, it has an opportunity to demonstrate a reduction in water withdrawal across its operations. While the company has a target to reduce water withdrawals, it has an opportunity to report relevant data, report reductions of water withdrawals or set a time-bound target. It also has an opportunity to report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

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

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

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.

Act ethically
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships.

The company has a publicly available policy statement setting its political engagement approach, but it still has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement setting out its lobbying approach, specifying that the company does not make political contributions and/or disclosing these are only made by exception and based on transparent criteria.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company discloses that it strives to monitor and improve the health and safety standards of its own operations, it has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. The company also has an opportunity to set and disclose a time-bound target to pay all worker a living wage, and support the payment of living wages by its suppliers.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment, disclose time-bound targets related to this commitment, and increase the representation of women on its board.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. However, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.