Mowi

Stakeholder engagement
Mowi demonstrates transparency by disclosing the communication channels it utilizes for engaging with its stakeholder groups. To underscore Mowi’s sustainability stakeholder practice, the company’s stakeholder engagement encompasses a wide range of concerns, including those related to 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. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Mowi has committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It has disclosed targets for reducing absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 35% by 2030 and 72% by 2050, using a 2016 baseline year. In addition, the company provides regular updates on its progress towards achieving these targets. Furthermore, the company has also set a target to reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 35% by 2030 and 72% by 2050, with a base year of 2018. Similar to the scope 1 and 2 targets, the company regularly reports on its progress towards these scope 3 targets.

Food loss and waste
The company collaborates with value chain partners to prevent FLW from being generated.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company is actively involved in initiatives to reduce plastic usage and shift towards sustainable packaging. It also transparently shares quantitative data concerning both plastic use reduction and the utilization of sustainable packaging. Moreover, Mowi has set a specific goal to enhance the amount of recycled plastic incorporated into its packaging and provides regular updates on its progress towards achieving this target.

Water withdrawal
The company is committed to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. They also report the amount of water they withdraw in water-stressed areas. Additionally, the company actively collaborates with suppliers to minimize water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses its commitment to aligning with the global sodium benchmarks established by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the subcategory of processed fish and seafood products. As part of this initiative, the company offers various examples of products with reduced levels of sodium.

Child labour
The company verifies the age of workers recruited in its own operations.

Act ethically
The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
The company demonstrates a strong commitment to worker health and safety through its publicly available policy statement and quantitative disclosure on worker well-being. It also holds its business relationships to the same high standards regarding health and safety. Its proactive approach to monitoring supplier health and safety compliance, along with the disclosure of supplier ratings, highlights its dedication to safety throughout its supply chain.

Furthermore, the company’s commitment to paying a living wage, coverage of collective bargaining agreements, and gender diversity targets showcase its efforts to create an inclusive and equitable workplace, with a balanced representation of women in leadership and on the board. These initiatives reflect a comprehensive approach to promoting worker well-being and diversity and demonstrate a commitment to corporate social responsibility.

Respect human rights
The company demonstrates a strong commitment to human rights, both in its own operations and across its supply chain, as evident in its publicly available policies and its engagement with stakeholders in France and Poland. It actively identifies and assesses human rights risks and shares the results transparently. Furthermore, the company’s engagement with charitable organizations and support for child refugees exemplify its dedication to social responsibility and contributing to communities in which it operates.

The provision of a whistleblowing channel for all workers, with the option for anonymity, underscores the company’s commitment to ensuring a safe and transparent environment. Additionally, its accessible human rights grievance mechanism for external stakeholders reinforces its dedication to addressing concerns from those impacted by its activities, further emphasizing its commitment to human rights and corporate social responsibility.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability performance but can further link this policy to enhancements in nature-related objectives and social issues. While stating that the board of directors has the expertise in sustainability, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose whether its highest governance body has specific expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including nutrition, climate, water, soil health, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

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 discloses that the stakeholders identify the important and material topics of concern and states which ESG topics it interacts with each stakeholder. However, there is an opportunity for the company to clarify if these topics are raised by its stakeholders during its ongoing and regular stakeholder engagement activities.

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

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to align its scope 1, 2 and 3emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

Water withdrawal
The company currently discloses reduction targets for water consumption, absolute water use, and water intensity. However, there is an opportunity for the company to also disclose a target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and regularly report progress towards this target.

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 set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of nutritious products in accordance with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations. It has an opportunity 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
While the company prohibits the payment of recruitment fees or related costs in is operations, it could disclose similar commitment for its supply chain. Furthermore, it could disclose a prohibition to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its value chain. To conclude, the company has an opportunity to indicate how it is building 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.

Act ethically
The company could publicly disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also has an opportunity to provide a detailed description of its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks in its own operations, ensuring clarity and accountability.

Furthermore, the company can improve its grievance mechanism for bribery and corruption concerns, ensuring accessibility and anonymity for all stakeholders. To strengthen its corporate governance, the company has the opportunity to develop a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement, which could include a clear statement of not making political contributions. Publicly disclosing its lobbying expenditures and the requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its policies would further demonstrate its commitment to ethical conduct.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has various opportunities to enhance transparency. Firstly, it can disclose its process for determining a living wage in the regions it operates. Secondly, the company can reveal how it actively facilitates the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. Furthermore, it has the chance to publicly commit to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. Lastly, the company can disclose the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men in its direct operations workforce, categorized by significant locations of operation

Respect human rights
The company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks. However, it has an opportunity to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues.