Grupo Mexico

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups.

Resource exploitation and circularity
The company discloses its inputs, including its material footprint.

Solid and air pollution
The company discloses the proportion of hazardous waste treated to reduce pollution compared to total waste, the hazardous waste diverted from disposal and the waste directed to disposal.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company has a general policy of respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and communities, which states that the company has processes for identifying and recognising the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and it describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Grupo Mexico discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process. It has a set of targets covering its material topics, however these targets are not applicable to all its business units, and not enough evidence of these targets also covering the most material elements of its value chain could be found. Grupo Mexico reports consistently against all 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. Finally, the company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

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

Impact and dependencies assessment
While Grupo Mexico discloses one of its steps regarding biodiversity is the assessment of impacts and has an has an Environmental Policy that commits to conducting biodiversity-related assessments, no further detail of this process within its own operations and its upstream value chain could be found. The company does not disclose any assessment of its dependencies on nature within its own operations, nor those of its upstream business relationships.

Key areas and species
The company discloses its locations in or within close proximity to areas important to biodiversity as well as IUCN Red List and national listings, with the exception of the Transportation Division, which in accordance with the company’s materiality analysis, is not material for this topic and hence no further details are disclosed. It does not disclose the locations of its suppliers that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, nor the status of species found following international and national conservation lists.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation. Grupo Mexico has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. It is committed to restoring ecosystems and the end of the useful life of its facilities, aiming that at the closure of operations is safe for people and ecosystems The company discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity
The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. Furthermore, Grupo Mexico discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, which include the generation of added value in water management, through projects that promote environmental and ecosystem services with high value, such as water infiltration to the subsoil, prevention of soil erosion, maintenance of ecological flows in watersheds The company does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
While Grupo Mexico discloses reductions in water withdrawal, not all of its operations are included in said disclosure. Moreover, while it has disclosed some targets, these are neither timebound nor specific. The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Grupo Mexico does not report a decrease in water pollution. The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality but does not regularly report on water pollution, nor disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water or 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
Grupo Mexico is reducing the production of hazardous waste. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste, nor the amount of plastic waste generated, and proportions directed from or to disposal in its own operations was found. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants or time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
The company is reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, however its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions increased. While Grupo Mexico has disclose some targets across all three scopes in the past, it no longer has a target covering its activities from 2021 onwards.

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

Safe, healthy, clean environment
The company 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
Grupo Mexico 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.

Grupo Mexico describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. It describes its process for assessing its human rights risks. However, it has an opportunity to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. The company provides a case study describing how it has acted on a salient human rights risk issue. While Grupo Mexico discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it does not cover all of its operations. The company engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

Grupo Mexico 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. The company discloses a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage. The company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Grupo Mexico states that it provides fair salaries, however, no evidence that the company describes how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers was found. The company discloses 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. It takes steps to identify and address bribery and corruption. 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. Finally, Grupo Mexico specifies that it does not make political contributions.