J.R. Simplot

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
J. R. Simplot openly shares its efforts to enhance soil health and promote agrobiodiversity through its production or sourcing practices. For example, it supports and participates in the 4R Nutrient Stewardship program, which promotes best practices for minimizing nutrient loss in soil and aims to improve efficiencies while enhancing environmental protection and sustainability efforts.

Water
The company has constructed a pilot water treatment plant to address water pollution.

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

Act ethically
J. R. Simplot has a policy against bribery and corruption and publicly commits to safeguarding personal data. Additionally, it has established 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 wherein it commits to respect the health and safety of its workers and also extending this expectation to its business relationships.

Respect human rights
The company indicates that it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to its workers and all 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
J. R. Simplot does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company could disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Also, while it discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and water, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Furthermore, the company could improve its performance by reporting on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
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.

GHG emissions
J. R. Simplot should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. 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
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose 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. It also has an opportunity 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
J. R. Simplot 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
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment against bribery and corruption by specifying the consequences of breaching anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. It could also establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption.

Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasizes its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describes the living wage determination methodology, and discloses strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related time-bound targets. It could also disclose that it has at least 30% women on the Board of Directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to human rights by using stronger language in its policy that respects fundamental human rights, and all of the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering its operations and value chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.