New Hope Group

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy area.

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

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

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of its workforce for each employee category by age group and gender.

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 does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and 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 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 does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

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 has an opportunity to reveal a policy that prohibits bribery and corruption, while also incorporating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses into contracts involving business relationships. Moreover, it could also outline its process for identifying risks and impacts associated with bribery and corruption. Additionally, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify that this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and that the complainant can choose to reveal their identities or remain anonymous.
Furthermore, the company could choose to disclose a policy that outlines its approach towards lobbying and political engagement. It could explicitly state that it refrains from making any political contributions and provide insight into the amount it allocates to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it respects the health and safety of workers, it could formalise this commitment in a public policy document. The company can extend this expectation to its supply chain, and provide evidence on how it monitors supplier compliance.
Additionally, while the company states that it provides short-term salaries to its workers which include wages and other benefits, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. The company could also explain its method for determining a living wage in each region and how it supports suppliers in ensuring their workers receive a living wage.
Moreover, while the company advocates gender equality and undertakes women’s empowerment initiatives, it has an opportunity to explicitly commit to these objectives, set related time-bound targets, and report data ,including the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has the opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting human rights. Additionally, while the company commits to respect the right not to be subject to discrimination, it has an opportunity to place this statement in a formal policy document, and reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. The company could further extend the same expectation to its business relationships.
Furthermore, the company could articulate a comprehensive process for identifying risks and impacts related to human rights throughout all its activities and the supply chain. It could also elaborate on how it evaluates and identifies its salient human rights issues, and provide insight into how it considers relevant factors such as geographic, economic, and social aspects. Moreover, the company could unveil a global system designed to prevent, mitigate, or address its salient human rights issues.