Mowi

Stakeholder engagement
Mowi discloses the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, its stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Mowi discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, as well as the outcome of this process, concerning its sustainability strategy and reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Mowi discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains and the proportion of conversion-free high-risk commodities. Furthermore, the company provides evidence that it has achieved 100% conversion-free supply chains for all its relevant high-risk commodities.

GHG emissions
Mowi has set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and report progress against them. Additionally, the company reduces its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

Invasive species
Mowi discloses its processes for preventing the introduction of invasive alien species (IAS) or managing IAS that have been introduced due to its operations.

Solid and air pollution
Mowi partakes in activities and discloses quantitative data related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging, including the proportion of recycled content in its plastic packaging. It has also set a target to increase the recycled plastic content in its packaging and reports progress against it.

Water
Mowi demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its operations and how much water is withdrawn for its operations in water-stressed areas. It also engages with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Moreover, the company regularly reports on water pollution metrics and reports a decrease in water pollution. Additionally, it discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

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

Act ethically
Mowi includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work.
Mowi demonstrates a solid commitment to worker health and safety through its publicly available policy statement and quantitative disclosure on employee well-being. It also holds its business relationships to the same high standards regarding health and safety. Its proactive approach to monitoring supplier health and safety compliance and disclosing supplier ratings highlights its dedication to safety throughout its supply chain.

Furthermore, the company’s commitment to paying a living wage, coverage of collective bargaining agreements, and gender diversity targets showcase its efforts to create an inclusive and equitable workplace with a balanced representation of women in leadership and on the board. These initiatives reflect a comprehensive approach to promoting employee well-being and diversity and demonstrate a commitment to corporate social responsibility.

Respect human rights
Mowi demonstrates a solid commitment to human rights in its operations and supply chain, as evident in its publicly available policies and its engagement with stakeholders in France and Poland. It actively identifies and assesses human rights risks and shares the results transparently. Furthermore, the company’s engagement with charitable organisations and support for child refugees exemplifies its dedication to social responsibility and contributing to the communities in which it operates.

Providing a whistleblowing channel for all workers, with the option for anonymity, underscores the company’s commitment to ensuring a safe and transparent environment. Additionally, its accessible human rights grievance mechanism for external stakeholders reinforces its dedication to addressing the concerns of those impacted by its activities, further emphasising its commitment to human rights and corporate social responsibility.

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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses that the stakeholders identify important and material topics of concern and states on which ESG topics it interacts with each stakeholder. However, there is an opportunity for the company to clarify if its stakeholders raise these topics during its ongoing and regular stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets, including climate and social inclusion. However, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, while the company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability, it could link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Lastly, although the company states that the board of directors has expertise in sustainability, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise concerning the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not commit to ensuring zero conversion or have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems. It does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its operations or by its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company needs to align its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company benchmarks its operations against rigorous policies and identifies nature-related dependencies and impacts through environmental impact assessments, it has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and upstream business relationships. The company also has the opportunity to disclose the methodology and results of these assessments. The same opportunity exists for assessing and disclosing its dependencies on nature within its operations and upstream business relationships, mainly through its monitoring program and R&D investments.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its operations.

Key areas and species
While the company highlights its efforts in recognising over 2,500 species and ensuring marine raw materials don’t come from IUU catch or endangered IUCN red-listed fish species, there’s an opportunity to provide a more detailed list of the majority of species present in proximity to its sites. Additionally, despite disclosing the presence of nine marine sites within particular areas of conservation (SAC) and annual seabed monitoring, specifics about the predominant species in these areas would be valuable. The company’s transparency on production sites near biodiversity-rich zones is commendable, but sharing finer details like site names and their proximity to protected areas can strengthen its disclosure. Lastly, to amplify its commitment, the company might consider detailing the locations of its suppliers adjacent to key biodiversity zones, species near supplier sites, and the conservation status of species in its locales using recognised conservation lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard. Additionally, the company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance.

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 and work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste. 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. While the company reports some data on waste and disposal, it has an opportunity to notify on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.

Water
The company has an opportunity to set time-bound targets to improve water withdrawal and water pollution practices. Also, it could disclose a commitment to respect the right to water and its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company mentions Indigenous Peoples’ rights but does not show a commitment to respecting these rights. There are no references provided to the relevant part(s) of ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples or the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Additionally, the company fails to disclose its processes for identifying and recognising the rights of Indigenous Peoples when its operations may impact these rights. The company also does not describe how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior, and informed consent.

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 publicly disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also has an opportunity to provide a detailed description of its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks in its own operations, ensuring clarity and accountability.

Furthermore, the company can improve its grievance mechanism for bribery and corruption concerns, ensuring accessibility and anonymity for all stakeholders. To strengthen its corporate governance, it has the opportunity to develop a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement, which could include a clear statement of not making political contributions. Publicly disclosing its lobbying expenditures and the requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its policies would further demonstrate its commitment to ethical conduct.

Provide and promote decent work.
The company has various opportunities to enhance transparency. Firstly, it can disclose its process for determining a living wage in its operating regions. Secondly, the company can reveal how it actively facilitates the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to publicly commit to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. Lastly, the company can disclose the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men in its direct operations workforce, categorised by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks. However, it has an opportunity to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues.