Impact and dependencies assessment
Pou Chen Corporation 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
Pou Chen Corporation 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 Pou Chen Corporation’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
While Pou Chen Corporation discloses its material footprint, no evidence could be found in the public domain that it reports on the materials used and inputs. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance, and it does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
Pou Chen Corporation’s total water intake has increased in 2020 compared to 2019, and it does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. Furthermore, the company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. It does not engage either with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Pou Chen Corporation does not report a decrease in water pollution, nor discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution, and it does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. Pou Chen Corporation does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water, and it 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
Pou Chen Corporation is not reducing the production of hazardous substances, and it has an opportunity to commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company is not reducing plastic use and waste in its own operations, and it is encouraged to report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. Furthermore, Pou Chen Corporation has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain, and to report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.
GHG emissions
Pou Chen Corporation does not report progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions target, and the company’s 1 and 2 emissions target is not aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions that is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Invasive species
Pou Chen Corporation has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.