Citrosuco

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. Furthermore, it has group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
The company has time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against these targets. Furthermore, the company reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well.

Water
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company reports a decrease in water pollution. 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 has a clear policy that strictly prohibits bribery and corruption. In order to reinforce this commitment, the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in all its contracts with direct business relationships.

Additionally, the company has established an independent Ombudsman who is responsible for receiving, analyzing, and resolving any issues related to bribery and corruption. This Ombudsman is easily accessible to all stakeholders, providing a safe and confidential platform for raising concerns or filing complaints regarding bribery and corruption, without fearing any negative consequences. Another important aspect of the company’s policy is that it explicitly states that no political contributions are made.

Provide and promote decent work
The company is committed to upholding the health and safety of its own workers, as stated in their publicly available policy statement. Additionally, the company publicly states its policy which requires its business partners to prioritize the health and safety of their workers.

Furthermore, the company provides information regarding the composition of its direct operations workforce in terms of employee categories, broken down by age groups and gender. It sets a target to achieve a minimum of 30% representation of women and individuals in leadership positions. It also discloses that the percentage of individuals, categorized by gender, who make up its governance bodies. For instance, in the fiscal year 2020/2021, the composition consisted of 60% male and 40% female members.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement, committing to respecting human rights. Additionally, the company provides an accessible Ombudsman for all workers to raise complaints or concerns. Furthermore, upon visiting its website, it is evident that the channel is open for anyone to make a report, with the option for the complainant to remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. The company 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 reports consistently against all its targets, it has an opportunity to disclose a baseline year for all its targets. Additionally, it could assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, 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. Lastly, it could improve its transparency by disclosing 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 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against it. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 3 emissions and its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company evaluates climate-related risks but has not comprehensively assesses the impact on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations. Additionally, the company does not disclose any evaluations of its impact on nature, including biodiversity, in its supply chain. There is also no disclosure of assessments related to the company’s dependencies on nature within its own operations or its 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 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, showing year-on-year reductions in water withdrawal, and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution or 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
The company should provide a clear description of its process for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption risks and impacts, focusing on specific locations or activities within its own operations. Additionally, the company has the chance to establish a comprehensive policy that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement. Alongside this, the company should also disclose its expenditures related to lobbying activities. Furthermore, it is recommended that the company require third-party lobbyists to adhere to its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company claims to pay higher than the state and national minimum wage in agricultural plants, it could also disclose that this wage is sufficient to support a decent standard of living for its employees and their families. Furthermore, the company has the chance to reveal the criteria it uses to determine a living wage in the regions where it operates. It also has the opportunity to disclose the steps it takes to support its suppliers in paying a living wage.

Additionally, the company can disclose a public commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Moreover, it can provide information on the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, broken down by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
Although the company has a publicly available policy statement that prohibits forced labor, child labor, and discrimination, it could further mention all the fundamental rights at work declared by the ILO, including the right to collective bargaining. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it could also emphasize all the ILO fundamental rights at work, including the right to collective bargaining.

The company provides information about its process for assessing human rights risks and some of the assessment results. However, there is room for improvement in clearly disclosing the results of these risk assessments. Furthermore, the company could elaborate on its approach to assessing and identifying what it considers to be its most significant human rights concerns. Additionally, the company could disclose a global system that addresses, prevents, or mitigates these salient human rights issues.