Greenyard

Lobbying
Greenyard discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member. It has however an opportunity to further show leadership by disclosing a full list for all jurisdictions where it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
Greenyard discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Greenyard 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.

GHG emissions
Greenyard has targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by the end of 2025 from a 2020 baseline and reports progress against these targets which are also aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Key areas and species
Greenyard discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operations.

Water
Greenyard demonstrates that it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, and its water withdrawals for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company discloses its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
Greenyard has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Also, it specifies that it does not make political contributions and discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Provide and promote decent work
Greenyard discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. Concerning health and safety, the company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers in its operations and supply chain. In terms of gender equality, Greenyard discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and has 33.33% women on the board.

Respect human rights
Greenyard has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and describes the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain. Also, it indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
Greenyard 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.

Stakeholder engagement
Greenyard has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Greenyard discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, ecosystem conversion and water. However, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Also, while the company reports consistently against some targets including climate and water, it could report consistently against all its targets. Furthermore, although it discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it has an opportunity to 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
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
Greenyard should set a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 3 emissions and its scope 3 target need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

Key areas and species
Greenyard has an opportunity to disclose its suppliers’ locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity. 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
Greenyard 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 activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
Greenyard does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
Greenyard has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target, and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to improve on its disclosure on water pollution by disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them. Finally, Greenyard has an opportunity to make a public commitment to respect rights to water.

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

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Greenyard 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
In terms of bribery and corruption, Greenyard could describe the process for identifying those risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. While the company has a mechanism to raise concerns, it could clearly disclose if this mechanism is to raise bribery and corruption concerns and is accessible to all stakeholders.

Concerning lobbying and political engagement, while Greenyard outlines its lobbying approach in a policy, it has an opportunity to outline its political engagement approach in a policy. Furthermore, the company discloses some information regarding its lobbying expenditures. However, it has an opportunity to disclose the expenditures in all locations where it carries out lobbying activities or specify it only does so in specific countries or regions. Lastly, it could disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
Greenyard has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

Additionally, while the company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to pay a minimum living wage, it has an opportunity to describe if a minimum living wage is enough to maintain a decent standard of living for employees of its business relationships and their family and how it works to support the payment.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, Greenyard has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment along with time-bound targets. It could further disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
Greenyard has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, Greenyard has an opportunity to disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment although it assesses modern slavery risks in its supply chain. Also, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.