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 The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.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.
