Mitr Phol Sugar Corp

Lobbying
Mitr Phol Sugar Corp discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

GHG emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. Additionally, the company discloses reduction in its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions compared to the previous year.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company applies a mitigation hierarchy approach to its biodiversity targets. The company quantifies its impacts on nature, including biodiversity.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Mitr Phol Sugar Corp discloses its inputs according to an international standard, and it discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
The company reports on the proportion of hazardous and non-hazardous waste treated to reduce pollution compared to total waste, hazardous waste diverted from disposal and directed to disposal. It demonstrates commitment, has policies and discloses quantitative data related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. Additionally, the company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company reports a decrease in water pollution, and it regularly reports on water pollution.

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

Act ethically
The company discloses a global tax strategy, for which an executive-level individual has ultimate responsibility. It also has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding these issues.

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, as well as a statement expecting its business relationships to do the same. It discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and gender, as well as the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. It also describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and its supply chain. Additionally, the company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, and describes mitigation measures of the risks and impacts identified through such assessments. Moreover, 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.

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.

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. This should include how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Also, the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and biodiversity. However, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, although the company reports consistently against some targets including climate, it could report consistently against all its targets. Lastly, the company 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 reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and report against its scope 1 and 2 targets. Additionally, the company should set targets to reduce its scope 3 emissions and report progress against it. Crucially, all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company conducts a risk impact assessment, including identifying operations near biodiversity-rich areas, it has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and upstream business relationships. Additionally, the company can further evaluate its dependencies on nature both within its operations and in 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
While the company undertook a biodiversity survey project near united farmer & industry from 2012-2022, it still has an opportunity to disclose specific locations adjacent to biodiversity-rich areas in its operations. Furthermore, there’s room to improve transparency regarding supplier locations in relation to key biodiversity areas. Additionally, detailing the conservation status of species in their locales, aligned with national and international conservation lists, would enhance their biodiversity reporting.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company 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 set and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. The company could also report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.

Water
The company 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 set targets to reduce its water pollution. 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
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships.

The company has a publicly available policy statement setting its political engagement approach, but it still has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement setting out its lobbying approach, specifying that the company does not make political contributions and/or disclosing these are only made by exception and based on transparent criteria.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company discloses that it strives to monitor and improve the health and safety standards of its own operations, it has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. The company also has an opportunity to set and disclose a time-bound target to pay all worker a living wage, and support the payment of living wages by its suppliers.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment, disclose time-bound targets related to this commitment, and increase the representation of women on its board.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. However, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment. 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.