Maderacre

Lobbying
Maderacre discloses some trade associations it is a member of.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses which organisms it directly exploits for commercial uses, including wild animal and plant species.

Solid and air pollution
The company commits not to develop or market new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties.

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

Act ethically
Maderacre has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Lobbying
The company 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 has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequency and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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 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 the company discloses monitoring the quality of forestry operations to quantify environmental impacts and utilizing the CONESA methodology to determine possible environmental impacts of its activities, no evidence suggests these processes assess impacts on biodiversity in its own operations or that the methodology is employed across all upstream activities. Moreover, the Nature benchmarks evaluated only publicly available information disclosed in English and available during the 2021/2022 reporting year. No further disclosure was found for this company.

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 discloses 30 tree species of high timber value and provides a map of its concessions adjacent to national parks, it does not evidence disclosing all species near its locations or provide detailed location information. Although it reveals the location of two plants used in 2022, it does not disclose the locations of upstream business relationships near biodiverse areas. Additionally, the Nature benchmarks evaluate only public information disclosed in English during 2021/2022. No further disclosure was found for this company.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding the company’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.

Solid and air pollution
The company should work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related 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 include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contractual agreements with business relationships and disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption. Additionally, although it has a grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns, it could further specify that concerns and complaints can be made without fear of reprisals.

Moreover, the company also has an opportunity to describe its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document and state that it does not make political contributions. It could also disclose its lobbying expenditures and that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain and provide evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards.

Additionally, the company could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support its suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respecting human rights. Additionally, although it has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights in its operations and supply chain, it could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, the company could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. It could specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered, and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.