Yum! Brands

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

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 disclosed its targets to reduce its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 46% by 2030. Additionally, it has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. These targets are in line with a 1.5-degree trajectory. The company also has a specific time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions, which are also aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. It also discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities which are conversion-free.

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 has taken steps to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations. It also reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company provides information on the percentage of menus that adhere to its internal nutrition guidelines, indicating a reduction in calorie content. Furthermore, it reports conducting an analysis to assess compliance with FDA guidelines for sodium reduction. The findings revealed that 75% of its individual products in the U.S. meet the prescribed upper limit for sodium concentration.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data. Furthermore, it has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Additionally, the company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

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 and expects its business relationships to do so. Additionally, the company discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and gender. Moreover, it discloses its time-bound target of significantly increase the number of women in senior leadership globally and achieve gender parity in leadership globally by 2030 in alignment with Paradigm for Parity.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. The company describes the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain. The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental 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 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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and water but there is room to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Moreover, while it reports against some targets including climate, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets at group level.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as well as report progress against these targets. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress against these targets as well.

Animal welfare
While the company has a target that addresses animal welfare issues in its supply chain, it has an opportunity to make it applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
While the company discloses targets and commitments to remove antibiotics important to human medicine from its poultry, chicken and beef products in its U.S. operations, it has an opportunity to make the targets applicable across all species, geographies and products.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its FLW (Food Loss and Waste) reduction targets and provide updates on its progress towards these targets. Furthermore, the company can align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

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 adopt a nutrient profiling system that aligns with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines and to set a sales-based target to increase the percentage of more nutritious food offerings.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to adopt front-of-pack labels or any other consumer- facing nutrition labels that support consumers with making healthier food choices. Furthermore, it can disclose the percentage of menus for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

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 set up initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of the farms but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

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 a process for identifying bribery and corruption but could disclose details of this process. Moreover, while it has a publicly available policy statement setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach, the scope of the policy is limited to U.S. markets. Similarly, the company has a publicly available policy stating that it makes political contributions and specifies the criteria of making it but the scope of the policy is limited to U.S. markets. Then, it has an opportunity to disclose whether these are made only by exception, and the criteria for making them.
Furthermore, the company discloses some information regarding its lobbying expenditures. However, it has an opportunity to disclose the expenditures in all locations where it carries out lobbying activities or specify it only does so in specific countries or regions. Lastly, the company could disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it is committed to complying with all laws pertaining wages, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and also how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.
While the company has a statement on gender equality and women’s empowerment, it has an opportunity to translate the latter in a public policy document. Additionally, it could disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. However, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work and also use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment. Similarly, the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.
Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and could also disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment. Additionally, the company could describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues and disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.