Godrej Consumer Products

Lobbying
The company discloses its affiliations with trade and industry associations.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised in stakeholder engagement activities, as well as its engagement process, and its stakeholder engagement covers nature and social issues.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts in relation to its sustainability strategy.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

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

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates some activities related to plastic use reduction. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
review*: definitely not met for element A, maybe element C, wait for Bosco

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets, as well as potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide targets on all key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain, nor does it report against all of its targets. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

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
While the company discloses quantitative reduction in its scope 1 and 2 emissions in India, the company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions across its global operations. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory, and report progress against them.

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.

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 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
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 is not reducing the production of hazardous substances and does not commit to avoiding the development or marketing of new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. Additionally, it is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. Furthermore, the company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated or the proportions directed to or diverted from disposal. Moreover, the company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
The company reports an increase in water use. Additionally, its water target is intensity based, and does not necessarily result in absolute reduction of water withdrawal. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution metrics, nor targets to reduce water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
review* C3.EA – isn’t this met?

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. It can also disclose the procedures it employs to identify and address bribery and corruption in its own operations and establish a confidential and anonymous grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns without fear of reprisal. Additionally, the company could transparently disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, stating it does not make political contributions, and revealing its lobbying expenditures. Moreover, the company has an opportunity to disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company lacks public commitments on worker health and safety, including a formal policy and monitoring mechanisms for its suppliers. It also does not clearly state how it defines or supports the achievement of a living wage in the regions it operates. Additionally, while it promotes women’s empowerment through social initiatives, it has no broad commitment to gender equality or disclosed targets. The company has an opportunity to formalise its health and safety policies, define and disclose a living wage strategy, and establish clear goals for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respecting human rights, including but not limited to fundamental human rights at work as declared by the International Labour Organization (ILO), within its operations and supply chain. The company can also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including those of its suppliers. Furthermore, the company has the possibility to describe its method and results for determining its most salient human rights issues, considering factors like geographical, economic, and social aspects. Lastly, it has the chance to disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues, aiming to prevent, lessen, or remedy them.