Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar

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

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company shares information about activities aimed at enhancing soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting 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. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets. Concerning accountability of its sustainability strategy, while the company states it has a CSR committee, it has an opportunity to disclose having persons, teams or committees who are responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy and assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues and disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

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.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company discloses that it priorities the development of communities at local and national levels and assure appropriate resettlement and rehabilitation of communities, however, no evidence found that the company has a commitment to respect the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment of local communities. The company has an opportunity track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities, and to commit to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. While the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, the company could clarify if there is an option to remain anonymous, and if the mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders. Further, the company could disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment that expects its suppliers to commit to respect the health and safety of their workers, along with information on how it monitors supplier compliance.

Additionally, while the company states that it pays fair living wages to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. It could further elaborate on the method employed to determine a living wage in all regions where it operates, and divulge how it aids suppliers in implementing such wages.

Moreover, While the company has a statement on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, it has an opportunity to translate it into a commitment in a public policy document. It could further disclose time-bound targets related to these goals, along with disclosure of the ratio between women’s and men’s basic salary and remuneration.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respect the ILO fundamental rights at work. It could also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. Additionally, it could further explain how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues, and describe how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are considered. Moreover, it could reveal a global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.