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
Lamb Weston 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
While Lamb Weston states it is committed to understanding and minimizing its impact on the environment, it has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and upstream business relationships. Similarly, the company has an opportunity to assess and disclose its dependencies on nature within its operations and upstream business relationships.
Invasive species
Lamb Weston has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
Key areas and species
Lamb Weston 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
Lamb Weston 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 a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.
Solid and air pollution
Lamb Weston should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste. It has an opportunity to report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. While the company reports some data with regard to its packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of plastic use reduction and the use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
Lamb Weston has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target, showing year-on-year reductions in water withdrawal, and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on rights to water in its operations or supply chains.
