Campbell’s

Stakeholder engagement
Campbell’s discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Campbell’s discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy and reports consistently against all its targets.

GHG emissions
Campbell’s has set a time-bound target to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 42% by 2030 with 2020 as the base year and reports progress against it. Additionally, its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Campbell’s discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
Campbell’s demonstrates commitment and partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It also reports on the proportion of recycled content in its packaging, ie. 0%.

Water
Campbell’s discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company has a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations and reports progress against the target. It also reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. Furthermore, the company discloses that it encourages its suppliers to transition to drip irrigation, and also invests in research and development activities to promote sustainable practices and encourage water stewardship among its suppliers. Finally, the company has a commitment to respect the right to water.

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

Act ethically
Campbell’s has a public commitment to protect personal data. Additionally, it discloses a global tax strategy and reports an executive-level individual who is responsible for its compliance.

Furthermore, the company has a policy on prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. It identifies bribery and corruption risks by regularly evaluating its overall corruption risks and provides its findings to the audit committee of the board. Additionally, it has also established a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. The company discloses its expenditures on lobbying at the federal and state levels and the amount of its dues spent on lobbying.

Provide and promote decent work
Campbell’s discloses a policy statement committing it to respect its workers’ health and safety and extends this expectation to its business relationships. The company reports the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group, gender, and ethnicity. Currently, women make up 31% of its Board of Directors.

Respect human rights
Campbell’s has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights, along with a grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, water use, nutrition and soil health. However, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Lastly, it could improve its performance by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion or to ensure zero conversion, nor does it have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. While the company discloses some evidence of addressing conversion, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and it does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company has a target to reduce its absolute scope 3 GHG emissions from purchased goods and services, and upstream transportation and distribution by 25% by 2030, against a 2020 baseline. However, the company should set a time-bound target covering all scope 3 categories to reduce its scope 3 emissions and report progress against it.

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 could also 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
While the company states that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List species are not affected by its operations, it still has the opportunity to provide further details on the species existing in or adjacent to its own locations. It could also benefit from disclosing the methodology or tools used to determine that its operations are not near areas critical for biodiversity. Furthermore, transparency could be enhanced by disclosing the locations of suppliers near biodiversity-sensitive areas and by sharing the conservation status of species in both its own locations and those of its suppliers according to national and international standards.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. It could also 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 reports an increase in water withdrawal. It has an opportunity to regularly report on water pollution metrics and show qualitative or quantitative evidence of reducing water pollution. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution nor its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

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 has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and states its non-participation in political contributions in its political accountability guideline; however, it has an opportunity to formalise these statements and place them into a public policy document. Furthermore, it could disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Furthermore, it states that it pays wages to its employees according to applicable laws. However, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage, to set a time-bound target and to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. The company states that it encourages its suppliers to pay a living wage, but it could use a stronger language and describe it strategies to support the payment.

Additionally, the company could translate its commitment statements on gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document and disclose a related time-bound target. It could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain by disclosing whether the commitment is applicable across all contexts and locations.

While the company has conducted a materiality risk assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose how it identifies human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.