MHP

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, it discloses the specific outcomes from these engagement activities.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
The company reports a decrease in water pollution, and demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

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 incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, the company 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. The company extends this commitment to its business relationships, and provides information on how it monitors their health and safety performance. Moreover, the company publicly states that its workers shall not be required to work more than 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours, including overtime.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the ILO core labour rights. Furthermore, 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’s activities.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

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, it could disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Additionally, although the company states it has an environmental officer overseeing its environmental performance, it could clarify whether its sustainability strategy covers both environmental and social strategy. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Lastly, the company could improve its transparency 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 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
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 does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company has an opportunity to set time-bound targets and engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. There is no evidence the company discloses water pollution metrics or set targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company does not disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

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
While the company has a management system to deter and detect acts of corruption, it has an opportunity to elaborate on the process it uses to identify corruption risks and impacts within its operations.

Additionally, the company has an opportunity to outline its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy document. While the company states that it does not make political donations and reveals that it did not incur any political expenditure during the reporting year, it has an opportunity to disclose that it does not make political contributions other than donations and formalize this commitment in a public policy document. The company could also report its expenditures on lobbying activities

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays wages in compliance with local laws, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. Additionally, the company could disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it supports its suppliers in paying a living wage to their workers.

Furthermore, while the company advocates equal opportunity, it could explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense. The company could disclose time-bound targets and reveal data, including the ratio of women’s basic salary and remuneration to men’s.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respect human rights. Additionally, while the company expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Furthermore, although the company has conducted a materiality assessment to identify risks to the business and periodic assessments of its business partners, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying human rights risks and impacts within its operations and supply chain. The company could further elaborate on its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate its salient human rights issues.