Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Minerva does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion or to ensure zero conversion. Moreover, the company does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion or to achieve conversion-free supply chains.
Finally, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and it does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
GHG emissions
Minerva should report progress against its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions targets. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, ensuring that its targets are consistent with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company consistently considers its environmental impacts and has key initiatives like forest conservation and the Renove program to mitigate potential biodiversity loss along its value chain, it has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts and dependencies on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and its 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 Minerva’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
Minerva should commit to avoiding 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. 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. The company could also provide quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and the use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and the proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
Minerva has an opportunity to demonstrate reductions in water withdrawal in its own operations and by setting time-bound targets and engaging with suppliers. There is no evidence the company reports on water pollution metrics and sets targets to reduce them. Furthermore, the company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. Moreover, Minerva 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.
