Mitsui

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

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.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has set a specific deadline to decrease its scope 1 and 2 emissions. Progress in achieving these emissions targets is regularly reported by the company. Notably, the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory, showing a commitment to combatting climate change. As part of this effort, the company actively works to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions within scope 1 and 2.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company showcases its commitment to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations while also providing detailed reports on the amount of water withdrawn in water-stressed areas.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented the following workforce nutrition program: nutrition education (i.e. dietary guidance and healthy diet coaching program), breastfeeding support (i.e. flexible working hours and maternal health advice for nursing employees), and healthy food offerings (i.e. providing healthy options and smaller portion size options in cafeterias).

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a publicly available global tax strategy and an executive who is tasked with its compliance. Furthermore, it has a public policy statement against bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a public policy statement expecting its business relationships to uphold the health and safety of their workers. Compliance is monitored through face-to-face interviews with suppliers’ management and employees, risk assessments, and on-site inspections involving external experts. Moreover, the company affirms its commitment to provide a living wage that exceeds the minimum wage in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations of each country or region for all employees. Additionally, the company discloses its target to attain 10% female managers by 2025 within its Japan operations and discloses the percentage of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights in its operations, along with a grievance mechanism accessible to all workers. It also has a policy commitment to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. The company describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and supply chain. Furthermore, it discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues and details the identification process.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s 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, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and 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, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and ecosystem conversion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Moreover, it could report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the chance to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, they can disclose a time-bound target to effectively reduce these emissions. Additionally, they have the opportunity to report their progress in achieving these scope 3 targets. Lastly, aligning the company’s scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory is also a potential opportunity.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some evidence of addressing conversion. However, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices. While the company has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it has an opportunity to make it time-bound and at group-level.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against them. Additionally, the company can align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

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 enhance its disclosures relating to soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. It can also report progress made towards achieving this target. Additionally, the company has the chance to engage with suppliers and work together to reduce water 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 the opportunity to showcase that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or another widely recognized industry-specific certification program. Additionally, the company can also disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence on healthy food offerings in its own operations and/or in its supply chain and to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company conducts human rights risk assessments and periodic surveys in its operations and supply chain on child labour. However, it could disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. Further, the company prohibits suppliers from using child labour but has an opportunity to 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.

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.

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 business relationships’ contracts. Additionally, it can establish a process to address these issues, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints. Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, clarifying its non-participation in political contributions, and transparently disclosing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company has a health and safety policy, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to show a commitment to health and safety. Furthermore, it could strengthen its commitment to its operations and supply chain workers’ wellbeing by disclosing how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates, adding a requirement for its suppliers to pay a living wage, and disclosing strategies to support the payment.

The company has statements on gender equality and women’s empowerment; however, it has an opportunity to translate these into a public policy document. Moreover, it could disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board, and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to human rights by establishing a global system to address salient human rights issues through the implementation of preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.