Dangote Industries

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequency and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure at group level.

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 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company’s subsidiaries, Sugar Refinery and NASCON, have integrated strategies for managing environmental impacts that include evaluations, audits, and board-level oversight, the company has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations. Additionally, the company can further enhance its environmental commitment by assessing and disclosing its dependencies on nature both in its own operations and across 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
While the company’s subsidiaries, Sugar Refinery and NASCON, have provided details about their production facilities not being adjacent to high conservation value or protected areas, the company still has an opportunity to extend this transparency to all its locations and to its suppliers. Additionally, there is room to disclose species populations near both its own operations and those of its suppliers, as well as the conservation status of these species according to national and international lists.

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 does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related 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
While the company states that it prohibits bribery and corruption, it has an opportunity to formalise this commitment in a public policy document. It could also describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations as well as including anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. 

Furthermore, the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns but it is unclear if the mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and whether complainants have the option to identify themselves or remain anonymous. Additionally, it could disclose how it approaches lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment on respecting the health and safety of its workers in its operations and supply chain, and provide evidence on how it monitors the performance of its suppliers on health and safety standards. Moreover, it could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or mention that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. The company could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions in which it operates, and explain how it works to support their suppliers in paying a living wage to their workers. While the company states that it supports equal opportunity and abhors any type of harassment or discrimination based on gender, it does not formalise this commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a public document. Furthermore, it could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets, the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respecting human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company also has the opportunity to describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, as well as assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. The latter could include a description of how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are taken into account. Furthermore, it could also reveal a global system to address its salient human rights issues by preventing, mitigating or remediating them.