Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.
Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.
Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
Bristol Myers Squibb demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, still it has not disclosed a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. Additionally, it does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas, nor engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company reports a decrease in water pollution and while it monitors water quality, it provides insufficient evidence regarding the monitoring process. Moreover, it does not regularly report on water pollution or disclose targets to reduce water pollution. Bristol Myers Squibb does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company does not disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.
Solid and air pollution
The company does not disclose a commitment to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company is reducing the production of hazardous waste. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
The company is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes and has a time-bound target to reduce covering scopes 1 through 3, against which it reports on progress. However, no evidence that the company’s target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.
Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.