Inghams

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company reports consistently against all its targets.

GHG emissions
The company has set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them.

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates commitment, partakes in activities, and discloses quantitative data related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water
The company discloses improvements in its water management processes.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
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, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and a target to achieve at least 40% female senior leadership by 2025 and 40% female leadership by 2030. Moreover, it has 50% women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it 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
The company does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Also, the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion and water. However, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, while 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
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 3 emissions and all of its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company is a member of the local chapter of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative and participates in their working groups, and also conducts environmental impact assessments, it still has an opportunity to assess its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, and disclose the methodology and results of these assessments within its own operations. The company also has yet to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature in its supply chain, or its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.

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 has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. 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
The company 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
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related to water withdrawal or rights to water in its operations or supply chains. 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. The company does not disclose relevant information on rights to water in its operations or supply chains.

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

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
Concerning bribery and corruption, the company could describe the process for identifying those risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations.

In terms of lobbying and political engagement, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its approach. Furthermore, it states that it does not make political contributions outside Australia, and makes political contributions after approval from the CEO. However, it has an opportunity to disclose whether these are made only by exception, and the criteria for making them. Furthermore, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and its requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

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

Concerning a living wage, while the company states that it pays competitive 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. Similarly, while the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, while the company has a statement, it could translate it in a public policy document. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to 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
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, the company states that it identifies human rights risks in its operations and supply chain and conducts due diligence to identify risks related to human rights and modern slavery in its supply chain. However, it has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and in its supply chain. Furthermore, it could disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment and its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.