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 them. Crucially, all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company routinely monitors species and habitat types in its Napa Valley Vineyards to promote biodiversity, it has an opportunity to assess its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and disclose the methodology and results. The company could also benefit from assessing dependencies on nature within its operations and in its upstream business relationships, providing a more comprehensive view of its environmental stewardship.
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
While the company has initiated programs like Nava Brewery’s Flora and Fauna Conservancy and restoration initiatives for the Napa Valley River, it still has opportunities to enhance its biodiversity disclosures. Specifically, it could disclose the locations within its own operations and its suppliers’ that are in or adjacent to biodiversity hotspots. Additionally, revealing the status of species found at its own and its suppliers’ locations, in accordance with international and national conservation lists, would provide a more comprehensive view of its biodiversity efforts.
Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding the company’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.
Solid and air pollution
The company should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste. It has an opportunity to report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in water withdrawal, including setting measurable targets, disclosing withdrawals in water-stressed areas, and working with suppliers to improve water withdrawal. The company also has an opportunity to disclose its processes for monitoring water quality, disclose metrics on water pollution, and set targets to reduce water pollution.