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 has targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions, i.e., to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1 & 2) by 30% within 2030 compared to FY 2021, however, it reports an increase in Scope 1 and 2 emissions year on year. The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets. 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 prepared guidelines aimed at minimizing its environmental impact through resource efficiency and responsible sourcing but offers no evidence of assessing its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its operations. While it has set criteria to monitor the environmental impact, including biodiversity, of its suppliers, the company doesn’t disclose the methodology or results of these assessments for its upstream value chain. Although acknowledging the business benefits derived from biodiversity and forests, the company hasn’t evaluated its own dependencies on nature. No assessments regarding dependencies on nature of its upstream business relationships have been disclosed.
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 has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to 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 has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target, demonstrating water withdrawal reductions, and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution or rights to water in its operations or supply chains.
