Nutrien

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the issues raised by each stakeholder during its engagement activities and the specific outcomes of its stakeholder engagement. Moreover, its stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, nutrition, and social areas.

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
The company actively works to lower its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It has set a target to reduce these emissions within a specific timeframe. Additionally, the company regularly provides updates on its progress towards achieving these scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduction targets.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses that it has developed three different products that enhance the efficiency of fertilizers.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company actively engages in endeavors aimed at reducing plastic usage and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. Additionally, it is committed to sharing specific data on its progress in reducing plastic consumption and adopting sustainable packaging solutions.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production practices, and reports progress against the targets.

Water withdrawal
The company actively demonstrates its commitment to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. Additionally, it reports the exact amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in areas facing water scarcity.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition education programme and workplace breastfeeding support for its employees.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company offers growers financing options for purchases such as seed, fertiliser and crop protection, and has initiatives to promote their financial inclusion and financial literacy. It describes in a case study how it has facilitated farmers’ access to input financing, leading to improved financial flexibility. With the financing, the farmers could cover expenses during the year and decide to sell on the best possible time to earn the highest profit.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and a global tax strategy. It also discloses a policy on bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contractual agreements with business relationships. Furthermore, it has a grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain and provides evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards. Additionally, it discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements and the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category. Lastly, it has a target to reach 30% women in leadership by 2025 and has 33.33% women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. Also, it indicates that 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 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 social inclusion, 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, 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 indicates the channel it uses to engage with society and customers. However, it could disclose the channels it uses to engage with other stakeholder groups which allow for two-way communication.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and water, 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 the potential to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. It is also beneficial for the company to disclose a time-bound target for reducing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory and report on the progress made towards these targets.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
While the company discloses a target to optimise the use of fertilisers, it has an opportunity to report progress against it. It could also disclose targets that encompass minimizing the use of pesticides as part of its R&D and value chain activities, and report progress against these targets.

Water withdrawal
The company is aiming to reduce freshwater use at specific sites, but there is no evidence to suggest that they have set a target to reduce water withdrawal across their entire operations and then report on progress. While the company states that it engages with stakeholders and suppliers on water stewardship in the areas where they operate, there is an opportunity for the company to provide evidence of these collaborative activities.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to provide evidence of how its activities and products contribute to increasing the nutritional quality and/or variety of crops and foods.

Workforce nutrition
The company offers snacks at work but could provide more information on how it defines these as healthy offerings and ensures accessibility for its employees. Moreover, it has an opportunity to expand its nutrition initiatives to supply chain workers.

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
While the company does not allow suppliers to retain workers’ personal documents and restrict workers’ freedom of movement, it has an opportunity to disclose similar commitments for its operations. Furthermore, it prohibits the payment of recruitment fees or related costs in its operations but could disclose similar commitments for its supply 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 has an opportunity to disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption. Additionally, while the company states that it makes political contributions after approval from the Government & Industry Affairs Department, it has an opportunity to disclose a publicly available policy statement that describes its approach to lobbying and political engagement and specifies that it does not make political contributions. Furthermore, it could also disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and its requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays a legal wage and expects the same in its supply chain, it has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support its suppliers in paying a living wage. Additionally, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights but has an opportunity to place it in a formal policy document. Similarly, it has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain but could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Additionally, while the company conducts human rights risk assessment and supply chain due diligence in general, it could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. It could further specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.