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 scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against all of its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company’s subsidiary indicates the impact of its operations on the environment and nature and adopts low-carbon technologies to protect biodiversity and natural resources, it still has an opportunity to assess its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, and disclose the methodology and results of these assessments at the parent company level. The company also has yet to disclose any assessments of its impacts on nature in its supply chain, as well as 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
While the company’s subsidiary states that it refrains from conducting activities in areas deemed cultural heritage or protected natural reserves, it has an opportunity to provide justification for the methodology or tools employed to identify these areas. Furthermore, there is no evidence of the parent company disclosing the complete list of locations (owned and controlled) where it conducts activities. Additionally, the company does not disclose the locations of its suppliers operating in or adjacent to vital biodiversity areas, nor does it provide data on species populations within its own operations or its suppliers’ locations. Moreover, the company does not disclose the conservation status of species identified within its own sites in accordance with national and international conservation lists.
Resource exploitation and circularity performance
While the company discloses its plastic packaging use, it has an opportunity to disclose all its inputs according to an international standard. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. Furthermore, while the company encourages its suppliers to apply soil conservation techniques, it is unclear whether the company’s action is leading to soil health improvements and/or an increase of agrobiodiversity in its production and/or sourcing practices. The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and 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, in its operations or supply chains.