CHS

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

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company actively shares information about their efforts to enhance soil health and agrobiodiversity in their production and sourcing processes.

Water
The company reports a decrease in water pollution.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Additionally, a grievance mechanism has been established for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Additionally, it has a policy statement accessible to the public, in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, it discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers. Furthermore, it indicates that it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including the outcome of the process. Also, it could disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Concerning accountability of its sustainability strategy, the company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues and disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability 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 an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to 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
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 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, disclosing water withdrawals in water-stressed areas, and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to improve on its disclosure on water pollution by disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose relevant information on rights to water in its operations or supply chains.

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
While the company has a process in place for identifying bribery and corruption, it could disclose details of this process. Moreover, it has an opportunity to establish a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach and specifying that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose its monitoring process for supplier health and safety performance. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose either a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage or confirm that it has already achieved this goal. To provide transparency, it could disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.
In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment and time-bound targets. Moreover, it could disclose that it has at least 30% women representation on its board. Lastly, it has an opportunity to disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Currently, the company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights, but it could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Similarly, while it expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.
Moreover, the company has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and its supply chain. Furthermore, it could disclose its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.