Chanel 

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

No leading practices were identified for the company in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Chanel discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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

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

Impact and dependencies assessment
Chanel 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.

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

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding Chanel’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.

Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding Chanel’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. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.

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

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

GHG emissions
No evidence that Chanel reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 compared to the previous year. The company sets a target to reduce 50% of scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2030 compared to the baseline year in 2018, but it does not report progress against the targets. The company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
No evidence that Chanel reduces its scope 3 emissions in 2021 compared to the previous year. The company sets a target to reduce 10% of its absolute scope 3 emissions by 2030 compared to the baseline year in 2018, but it does not report progress against the targets. The company’s scope 3 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Chanel does not disclose a commitment to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous peoples’ and land rights
Chanel does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

No evidence that Chanel describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations was found. The company describes the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its business relationships.  The company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks. However, it has an opportunity to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues.  No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. The company discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

Chanel has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers and that it expects its suppliers to do so. While the company indicates that it pays its workers statutory minimum wage, it has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. No evidence that the company describes how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers was found. The company has an opportunity to disclose the coverage of collective bargaining agreements. The company has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Chanel has an opportunity to publish a global tax strategy and should assign responsibility for this strategy to an executive-level individual or body.  The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption and its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption.  The company does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document.