Impact and dependencies assessment
CIMC 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
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.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding CIMC’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 CIMC ‘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 activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices and has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.
Water
While CIMC has decreased its consumption intensity, it has increased its water consumption between 2020 and 2021. While the company has a water intensity target and reports progress against it but it does not translate into a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company also does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas nor does it engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Furthermore, CIMC does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality nor does it regularly report on water pollution. While CIMC has an intensity target to reduce the sewage discharge and reports progress against it, it reports an increase in the total amount of sewage discharged. The company also does not 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.
Solid and air pollution
CIMC is reducing the production of hazardous waste but does not reduce plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
GHG emissions
CIMC does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions nor does it report progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions target. It has an opportunity to set a scope 1 and 2 emissions target as well as a scope 3 target aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.
Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.