Dabur

Lobbying
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all geographies.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised in stakeholder engagement activities, as well as its engagement process.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, and reports progress against all the targets it has set.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company discloses that it is committed to restoring biodiversity in its present and future areas of operation.

GHG emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses the weight of total packaging materials, as well as the percentage of recycled or reused material to total material used in production or providing services. However, the disclosure of its inputs is limited to its packaging materials, providing the company with an opportunity to further improve its disclosures in this area.

Solid and air pollution
Showing leading practice in this area, the company shows evidence of reducing phasing out hazardous materials, including materials in the SVHC list. The company also has a target to phase out the production of hazardous substances, and reports progress against the target. The company discloses quantitative reductions in the amount of hazardous waste. The company discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company reports on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. 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
Dabur India Limited has a publicly available Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy, complemented by its Code of Ethics and Conduct, which prohibits all forms of bribery and corruption. The company includes anti-bribery and corruption clauses in contracts with its business relationships, requiring suppliers to adhere to high integrity standards. Breaches of the Supplier Code of Conduct may result in termination of agreements. Furthermore, Dabur provides contact numbers and email addresses, accessible to all stakeholders, to raise concerns related to bribery and corruption without fear of reprisals. Stakeholders have the option to remain anonymous or identify themselves when reporting concerns.

Provide and promote decent work
The company maintains a publicly available policy on respecting worker health and safety, incorporating health and safety management systems, and requiring business relationships to ensure a safe working environment. It conducts independent third-party assessments on 15% of its value chain partners for various compliance metrics. The company is committed to gender equality, targeting an 18% managerial gender diversity ratio by 2028, and reports a 14% female representation on its board. It has implemented several initiatives for women, including vocational training for 773 women and higher average pay for female employees compared to males.

Respect human rights
The company has a policy statement on human rights, approved by the highest governance body, committing to respect the rights of all stakeholders. Their approach includes ensuring fair labour practices and meeting social responsibilities, both as a direct and indirect employer.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets, as well as potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company discloses some sustainability targets, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. No evidence was found that the company provides evidence of linking performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature (including biodiversity) and social issues. No evidence found that the company provides evidence that its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material pressures on nature.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company lacks a commitment to ensure zero conversion and does not disclose activities aimed at achieving conversion-free supply chains. Additionally, it does not have time-bound targets set for achieving conversion-free supply chains, nor does it disclose a commitment to minimize ecosystem conversion. Moreover, the company does not disclose details or outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or those of its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company reports an increase in its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The company has an opportunity to align its targets to a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company discloses its assessments on biodiversity impacts and dependencies using the IBAT tool, it has an opportunity to disclose more information about the results.

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 discloses that it does not have any operations or offices in or around ecologically sensitive areas, but does not disclose the methodology or tools employed to confirm this. The company does not disclose key species affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company has an opportunity to disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
While the company states a target to reduce water use, it is based on intensity and does not necessarily equate to absolute reduction. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.
The company does not report a decrease in water pollution. The company does not regularly report on water pollution metrics, nor targets to reduce water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

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
Despite disclosing no breaches related to corruption and affiliations with trade and industry associations, the company does not describe its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks. It lacks public policy statements on political engagement and specifics on its expenditures on lobbying. The company has an opportunity to establish clear, accessible reporting mechanisms for bribery and corruption, and formally document its stance on political contributions and lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company shares certain injury and fatality rates but omits details on the types of injuries and total working hours. It ensures statutory wage compliance but does not confirm if these wages are adequate for a decent living nor sets a timeline for achieving a living wage. There’s an absence of a strategy to support living wage payments by its business relationships. With a low female representation on its board and limited gender pay ratio disclosures, the company has an opportunity to disclose more comprehensive data on work-related injuries, enhance transparency about wage adequacy, and improve gender representation and pay equity disclosures.

Respect human rights
While the company has a policy against discrimination, child labour, and forced labour, it lacks a clear policy on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights. Its due diligence system covers risk identification in operations and the supply chain, yet the company does not sufficiently describe these processes or disclose the results of its assessments. Although it assesses a portion of its value chain partners, it does not comprehensively disclose its process for identifying human rights risks or its salient human rights issues. The company has an opportunity to clearly define and enhance its human rights risk identification and management processes, and to establish a more transparent global system to address human rights issues.