DLG Group

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company is committed to achieving conversion-free supply chains and actively discloses its efforts in this regard. By setting time-bound targets, the company ensures progress towards this goal.

GHG emissions
The company has time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and these targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, the company reports progress against its scope 1 and 2 targets and reduces them compared to previous year.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company openly shares its efforts to improve soil health and promote agrobiodiversity in both its production and sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates commitment to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a public policy statement that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Furthermore, it discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and its target of maintaining 30% of women in all management positions by 2030 and its goal of having at least four female members on the board by 2026.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights, along with a grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company. Additionally, it has a publicly available policy statement expecting its suppliers to respect the ILO core labour rights.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Also, while the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, it could assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body and link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Furthermore, although the company states that the board of directors has expertise in nutrition, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company lacks transparency regarding efforts to minimize ecosystem conversion and does not disclose any commitment to such measures. Additionally, there is no commitment from the company to ensure zero conversion of ecosystems. Furthermore, the company does not prioritize ecosystem restoration and fails to disclose details or outcomes of restoration projects in areas impacted by its operations or suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company has an opportunity to report progress against these scope 3 targets and also reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

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
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment against bribery and corruption by specifying the consequences of breaching anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. Additionally, it could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, clarifying its non-participation in political contributions, and transparently disclosing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to health and safety of workers by using stronger language in its policy. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage and describes the living wage determination methodology. While it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage and disclose how it supports the payment.

The company has a statement on gender equality and women’s empowerment; however, it has an opportunity to translate it into a public policy document. It has an opportunity to disclose that it has at least 30% women on the Board of Directors and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to human rights by extending the expectation to its business relationships and by disclosing a policy statement that respects the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.