Impact and dependencies assessment
While Evraz intends to assess its impacts on biodiversity through its Biodiversity Roadmap, it has yet to implement it. The company does not disclose any assessment of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, in its supply chain. The company also does not disclose any assessment of its dependencies on nature within its own operations or of its upstream business relationships.
Key areas and species
Evraz discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operations but does not disclose the locations of its suppliers that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity. The company does not disclose species populations existing in or adjacent to its own locations or the locations of its suppliers. Furthermore, Evraz has an opportunity to disclose the status according to national and international conservation lists of species identified in its own locations.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion. While Evraz discloses it strives to minimise at the source in its waste stewardship section, no evidence that the company is attempting to minimise natural land use conversion could be found in the public domain. The company is however committed to restoring ecosystems and discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
Resource exploitation and circularity
Evraz does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. While the company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, it does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.
Water
Evraz has a strong opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations as well as to report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Furthermore, the company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. nor does it regularly report on water pollution. Evraz has an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company also 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.
Solid and air pollution
No evidence that Evraz is reducing the production of hazardous waste was found. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found.
GHG emissions
While Evraz has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against it, no evidence that the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory and report progress against it.
Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
