Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion, and it does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion or to achieve conversion-free supply chains. While the company has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it does not cover all high-risk commodities.
Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and it does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
GHG emissions
The company discloses that it is committed to reduce scope 3 emissions in all upstream categories and the category “downstream transportation and distribution” by 11 percent between 2021 and 2030. However, this indicator looks at targets across all categories. The company should set a target to reduce all its scope 3 emissions and report progress against these targets. Furthermore, the company discloses that it is committed to the SBTi target “well below 2 °C”. Crucially, company’s targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
The company annually examines the potential impacts of its worldwide sites on biodiversity, using location-based assessments. However, it has an opportunity to disclose the methodology and results of these assessments. The company uses the LEAP Nature Risk Assessment Approach to identify locations for upstream operations, indicating that impacts and dependencies can be evaluated. Yet, it has an opportunity to disclose the methodology and results of these assessments in its upstream business relationships. While the company intends to identify its dependencies on nature, it still has an opportunity to assess and disclose these dependencies both within its own operations and upstream.
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
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 should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
While the company has targets to reduce freshwater withdrawal, the target is tied to intensity, and only for specific areas. The company has an opportunity to declare qualitative or quantitative evidence on reducing water quality pressures. 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.
