Fuji Oil

Stakeholder engagement
Fuji Oil discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and discloses the frequency and channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its engagement encompasses nature, including biodiversity, nutrition and social issues.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Fuji Oil discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy and reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Fuji Oil has taken steps to achieve conversion-free supply chains and discloses these activities. Additionally, the company has set time-bound targets to meet this objective. Moreover, it also discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities that are conversion-free.

GHG emissions
Fuji Oil has time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and it reduces them against the previous year. The company also reports against its scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction targets.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Fuji Oil discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
Fuji Oil reports on its NOx emissions, however, it has an opportunity to report on other harmful air pollutants as well. It also demonstrates commitment and engages in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water
Fuji Oil reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company engages with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal and demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. Additionally, the company requires access to water and sanitation, including refraining from negatively affecting access to safe water, to be included in contractual arrangements with its business relationships.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
Fuji Oil requires its business relationships to identify and recognise affected Indigenous Peoples and to obtain their free, prior and informed consent regarding whether and how to carry out projects.

Act ethically
Fuji Oil discloses a global tax strategy and the executive-level individual who has responsibility for its global tax strategy. Moreover, it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
Fuji Oil has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of its workers. Furthermore, it discloses time-bound targets related to gender equality and women’s empowerment and reports the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
Fuji Oil has a public policy statement pledging to respect human rights and the fundamental rights at work as outlined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). It also details the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts and discloses these findings publicly. Additionally, a case study is provided to describe the company’s response to a salient human rights risk issue.

Lobbying
Fuji Oil 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.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Fuji Oil discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion, water and ecosystem conversion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, although the company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it could link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Lastly, the company could improve its performance by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Fuji Oil lacks commitment to achieving zero conversion and restoring ecosystems. Additionally, the company fails to disclose information and outcomes related to ecosystem restoration projects in areas impacted by its operations or those of its suppliers.

GHG emissions
Crucially, company’s scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, the company should reduce its scope 3 emissions.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Fuji Oil 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
Fuji Oil has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

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

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Fuji Oil 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
Fuji Oil does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
Fuji Oil has an opportunity to set time-bound targets to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution, and has an opportunity to make a public commitment to rights to water.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
Fuji Oil does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Fuji Oil 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
Fuji Oil has an opportunity to disclose a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption and to describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. While the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could further clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to identify themselves or remain anonymous.
Furthermore, Fuji Oil can demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasizes its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
Fuji Oil has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to the health and safety of workers by disclosing a policy statement covering its operations and providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describes the living wage determination methodology in regions where it operates, and discloses strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.
Furthermore, Fuji Oil could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It could also disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board of directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
Fuji Oil discloses statements expecting its suppliers to adhere to the ILO’s fundamental rights at work in accordance with domestic laws. However, there is room to apply this statement universally across all contexts and locations.
Furthermore, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities within its supply chain. While Fuji Oil discloses its salient human rights issues, it could also clarify how factors like geography, economy, and social considerations play a role in the identification process.
Additionally, while Fuji Oil discloses that it conducts human rights risk assessments and its processes to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues, it could describe how the system applies to its supply chain.