Carnival Corporation

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, and reports progress against all the targets it has set.

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates some activities related to plastic use reduction. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and has time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

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

Act ethically
The company maintains a public policy statement against bribery and corruption, asserting adherence to relevant laws in all operational territories and requiring precise record-keeping. Its business partner code of conduct similarly prohibits bribery and corruption, stipulating that any violation could result in the termination of business relations or contracts. Additionally, it expects business partners to enforce appropriate compliance measures and to monitor their suppliers. The company also provides a reporting system accessible via a website and phone numbers, allowing reports of grievances including bribery and corruption concerns. This system offers options for anonymity, ensuring that complainants can report without fear of reprisals.

Provide and promote decent work
The company maintains a publicly available policy statement committing to respecting worker health and safety. It pledges to protect the well-being of all employees and exceed legal health, safety, and environmental requirements. The company also emphasises the importance of safe and healthy working conditions across all operations. Additionally, it aims for gender equality on its board, with a target of at least 33% female representation. Currently, it surpasses this goal, as 36.36% of board members are female.

Respect human rights
Carnival Corporation enforces a policy requiring its business partners to adhere to international human rights standards, including the ILO’s Core Labour Standards. Their Business Partner Code of Conduct mandates compliance with all child labour laws and sets guidelines against human trafficking, forced labour, and ensures non-discrimination. The company also promotes diversity and inclusion, urging fair employment decisions based on merit, and fostering a respectful, open, and inclusive work environment across all business relationships.

Lobbying
While the company reports some partnerships, it does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Stakeholder engagement
While the company discloses an overview of its stakeholder engagement plan, it has an opportunity to disclose more comprehensive details including an overview of the issues raised or its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, including frequency and channels.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company discloses some sustainability targets, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related 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 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.

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 does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding the company’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.

Solid and air pollution
The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.

Water
The company reports an increase in water use. Additionally, it does not provide a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal or report the amount of water withdrawn for its operations in water-stressed areas, nor engages with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report relevant information on water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide 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
Details on political engagement are provided for employees but not for the company. It asserts non-participation in political contributions without a formal policy. The company has an opportunity to formally disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement and clarify requirements for third-party lobbyists.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has disclosed major injuries and accidental deaths but lacks comprehensive data on recordable work-related injuries and hours worked. It expects suppliers to adhere to safety laws but lacks a clear policy statement on health and safety expectations for business relationships. The company also mentions due diligence in supplier interactions without detailing monitoring methods for health and safety compliance. Regarding wages, it recognises the importance of fair compensation but provides no clear commitment to living wages or details on calculating such wages in different regions. While expecting business partners to ensure lawful wages, it lacks disclosure on supporting living wage standards in its supply chain. The company has the opportunity to enhance transparency in health and safety monitoring, define and disclose its approach to determining and supporting living wages, and improve reporting on work-related injury metrics.

Respect human rights
The company promotes human rights aligned with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ILO’s Core Labour Standards but lacks a formal, approved policy that reflects a strong commitment to these principles. It has identified human rights broadly as a risk through materiality assessments and promotes compliance via SMETA audits in its supply chain. However, there is no evidence of a defined process to systematically identify human rights risks across its operations or supply chain. The company has an opportunity to establish a more robust and formally approved human rights policy and to enhance transparency in its human rights due diligence processes.