Fluor

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

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

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights 
Fluor is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Fluor states it has realised a materiality analysis, no evidence that the company discloses a materiliaty assessment could be found in the public domain. The company also does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Furthermore, it does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
While Fluor disclose some examples of stakeholder engagement, it does not disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities nor its process for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond its materiality assessment.

Lobbying
While Fluor discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member, it does not disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with nature-positive policies. The company also does not report (potential) misalignment between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and nature-positive policies.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

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.

Resource exploitation and circularity
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. The company does not disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. The company does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
While Fluor discloses its water use for its offices, no quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across the company’s own operations could be found in the public domain. The company 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. Fluor has an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution. Additionally, the company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water nor 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 the company is reducing the production of hazardous waste or plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. Fluor does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
Fluor has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against it. However, no evidence that the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found. The company is reducing its scope 3 emissions but does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company has an opportunity to disclose a scope 3 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment 
Fluor does not disclose a commitment to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights 
Fluor does not disclose its processes for identifying and recognising the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, nor does it describe how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent. The company also does not disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights, as set out in the relevant part(s) of the VGGTs or the IFC Performance Standards. No evidence was found that the company requires its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rightsholders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

The company has an opportunity to describe a comprehensive process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, especially through its business relationships. The company has an opportunity to describe a process for assessing the human rights risks it has identified and to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. While the company discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. No evidence that the company discloses a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage was found. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. While the company states that it expects its suppliers to pay wages that are sufficient for workers and their families to fulfil their basic needs, it has an opportunity to disclose how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. While the company discloses the proportion of its U.S. workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, it does not disclose the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to those.

The company discloses a tax strategy, but it is not applicable to all its operations. The company discloses that it conducts Business Risk Management Framework (BRMFSM) in which it assesses the corruption risks of various projects, also, it states that it conduct due diligence and monitoring of its third parties to identify the third parties who do not prohibit bribery. However, it does not describe the process to identify its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. In a public policy statement, the company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement. No evidence that the company has a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions was found.