Huntsman Corporation

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy area

Solid and air pollution
Huntsman Corporation has targets to reduce total amounts of hazardous waste and reports progress against them. 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.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Huntsman Corporation 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. However, the company does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and does not report consistently against them. 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.

Stakeholder engagement
Huntsman Corporation does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Lobbying
Huntsman Corporation does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Huntsman Corporation 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.

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.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding Huntsman Corporation’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.

Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding the Huntsman Corporation’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. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.

Water
Huntsman Corporation provides evidence of reducing water withdrawals but it does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas but does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company reports a decrease in total discharges to water but it does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. While the company regularly reports on water pollution, it does not disclose targets to reduce it. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water, nor 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
No qualitative evidence that the company reduces the production of hazardous substances could be found in the public domain The company does not disclose a commitment to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company is reducing the production of hazardous waste and has committed to reducing it by 5%. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste or the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal in its own operations was found. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
Huntsman Corporation is reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. While the company has a target to reduce scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, it does not report relevant data and its not aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found. No evidence regarding Huntsman Corporation’s scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions was found.

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

Safe, healthy, clean environment
Huntsman Corporation 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
Huntsman Corporation does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

While Huntsman Corporation discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts through its business relationships. No evidence that the company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues was found. No evidence was found that the company has a global system in place to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues. No evidence that the company provides an example of the conclusions reached and actions taken or to be taken on at least one of its salient human rights issues as a result of assessment processes was found. No evidence that the company discloses the categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

Huntsman Corporation 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. No evidence that the company discloses a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage was found. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. 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. No evidence that the company describes how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining was found.

Huntsman Corporation discloses a tax strategy, but it is not applicable to all its operations. No evidence that the company describes the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations was found. No evidence that the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships was found. In a public policy statement, the company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement. No evidence that the company has a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions was found.