Crown Holdings

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company has group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
The company has a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations and reports progress against the target.

Solid and air pollution
The company reports some activities to reduce plastic use and waste in its own operations and has targets regarding reduction of virgin polymer production or overall plastic use and waste, or an increase in the proportion of reusable or refillable packaging, and reports progress against the targets. The company has time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
The company’s scope 1,2 and 3emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Crown Holdings conducted a materiality assessment in 2017 and disclosed it would conduct a new assessment to be published in 2022. However, no evidence of a more recent materiality assessment could be found in the public domain. It reports consistently against all its targets. The company does not disclose having individuals, teams or committees within the company responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy, nor whether it assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

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

Lobbying
The company 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
The company 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 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.

Resource exploitation and circularity
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. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.

Water
While Crown Holdings discloses some quantitative water usage reductions in some of its sites, no quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across the company’s own operations could be found in the public domain. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. It does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Crown Holdings does not disclose relevant information related to water pollution, in its operations or supply chains. The company 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
No evidence that the company is reducing the production of hazardous waste was found. No evidence that the company reduces 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. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

GHG emissions
While the company discloses it surpassed its global reduction goal, no further quantitative evidence regarding the company’s emissions could be found in the public domain. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes. While it reports progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions target, it does not report progress against its scope 3 emissions target.

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

Safe, healthy, clean environment
The company 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
The company does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

No evidence that the company describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations was found. The company has an opportunity to describe a process for assessing the human rights risks it has identified and to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. The company has an opportunity to disclose the stakeholders it engages with on human rights risks.

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. No evidence that the company discloses a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage was found. 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 discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to those.

The company discloses a global tax strategy. No evidence that the company describes the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations was found. No evidence that the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships was found. No evidence that the company has a publicly available policy statement or policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach was found. The company specifies that it does not make political contributions.