Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. Mosaic 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 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While Mosaic has an approach for evaluating potential impacts on wildlife through biological assessments in new or expanded footprint areas, 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 can further assess and disclose 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 Mosaic has taken steps to disclose the number of IUCN Red List species affected by its operations and conducts assessments for rare species, it can further its commitment by revealing all species, not just those with a status higher than NT, in proximity to its locations. The company has shared biodiversity-sensitive locations within its operations in North America and Brazil, yet there’s an opportunity to provide comprehensive details for all operational regions. Furthermore, offering information about supplier locations adjacent to crucial biodiversity areas and clarifying the status of species in proximity to both its own and supplier locations using national and international conservation lists would augment its transparency in this domain.
Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Mosaic has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. It 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
The company 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 and waste. It has an opportunity to 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
Mosaic can improve on water withdrawal by working with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution nor its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.
