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 The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.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.