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 3 emissions and all of its scope 1,2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has a Policy on Sustainability, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility that commits to environmental protection, resource optimization, and biodiversity preservation. It also claims to have no impact in high-biodiversity value areas. However, there is no evidence that the company assesses its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations. It does not disclose assessments of impacts on nature in its supply chain, nor does it disclose any assessments of its dependencies on nature within its own operations or 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 its suppliers’ locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity. 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 activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, 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 has an opportunity to set more targets and disclose quantitative evidence related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.
Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target, disclosing water withdrawals in water-stressed areas, and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution or rights to water in its operations or supply chains.