Alpla

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

Indigenous peoples’ and land rights
Alpla is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights. The company has a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Alpla discloses a materiality assessment, it is from 2018 and has not been updated. The company does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. The company also does not report whether it assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, the company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
Alpla does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Lobbying
Alpla does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Alpla 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 Alpla’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 Alpla’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
Alpla does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Solid and air pollution
No evidence that Alpla reduces the production of hazardous substances nor plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. While Alpla reports on the proportion of recycled plastic products, the company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. Alpla does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
While Alpla states it discloses its GHG emissions through CDP and EcoVadis, no evidence that the company discloses quantitative reductions for segments of its scope 1 or scope 2 emissions in the public domain. While the company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. and reports progress against it, the company has an opportunity to set a scope 1 and 2 emissions target aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Alpla has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions but, while the company reports a reduction of its absolute emissions of 3.7%, it is unclear if its scope 3 emissions played a role in this reduction. No evidence that the company’s scope 3 emissions 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.

Safe, healthy, clean environment
Alpla does not disclose a commitment to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous peoples’ and land rights
While Alpla states its voluntary and information-based prior consent approach, it is unclear of what it entails. No evidence was found that the company requires its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rightsholders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

While the company discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts through its business relationships. The company has an opportunity to describe a process for assessing the human rights risks it has identified and to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. While the company discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

There is no evidence that the company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. The company has an opportunity to describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. The company has an opportunity to disclose the coverage of collective bargaining agreements. The company has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

The company discloses a tax strategy, but it is not applicable to all its operations. No evidence that the company describes the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations was found. No evidence that the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships was found. The company does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document.