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 a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions and report progress against it. Furthermore, the company discloses that its current emission targets are aligned with 2 degree trajectory and it has a future commitment to align its scope 1 and scope 2 emissions with the 1.5-degree trajectory. It should align all of its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company declares a commitment to environmental responsibility, including the application of the “precautionary principle,” it has an opportunity to bolster its credibility by disclosing specific methodologies and results of its assessments on impacts on nature and biodiversity. This could extend not only to its own operations but also to its upstream value chain. Additionally, the company could enhance transparency by assessing and disclosing its own dependencies on nature as well as those of its 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 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 has an opportunity report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. It could also report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and set time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company should work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste.
Water
The company has an opportunity to disclose additional information on water withdrawal by showing a reduction in absolute water withdrawal, setting targets, and engaging with suppliers. reduce absolute water withdrawal, set targets, and engage with suppliers. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to 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.