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Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups. The company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, including biodiversity, and social issues.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration 
The company has a time-bound target to restore 117 hectares of disturbed land per year.

Water 
The company has set a target to reduce its water pollutants by 25% relative to a 2019 baseline and reports progress against this target.

Solid and air pollution 
The company reports it has a project to recycle plastic waste in order to produce construction materials and landscaping items, fully and autonomously powered by recycled waste.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights 
The company is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights. It discloses its processes for identifying and recognising the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and it describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent. The company requires its business relationships to identify and recognise affected Indigenous Peoples and to obtain their free, prior and informed consent regarding whether and how to carry out projects. The company has a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights.

Sustainability strategy and accountability 
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. The company does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. The company reports consistently against all its targets. While the company links the remuneration of senior executives to the delivery of environmental projects, no further evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues beyond safety. While the board has expertise in biodiversity, no further evidence could be found that the company’s highest governance body has expertise with respect to its most material pressures on nature.

Stakeholder engagement 
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

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.

Impact and dependencies assessment 
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Key areas and species 
The company discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operations. The company does not disclose the locations of its suppliers that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity. The company does not disclose species populations existing in or adjacent to its own locations. Nor does the company disclose species populations existing in or adjacent to the locations of its suppliers. The company discloses the status of species in Pasvik, Lapland and Putoransky according to the IUCN Red List and Russia’s Red Data Book. However, no group-wide evidence could be found in the public domain.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration 
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company does not disclose any activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains, nor time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion but does not disclose activities to support this. The company is committed to restoring ecosystems. While the company discloses information about its programme to breed and release valuable fish species into water bodies to replenish their populations, these actions are not aimed at restoring the disturbed land, sea or ocean surface.

Resource exploitation and circularity 
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. The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices but does not have an associated target.

Water 
The company demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations but does not disclose a time-bound target to support this. The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company reports a decrease in water pollution but does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. While the company discloses pollutant discharges in general, it does not detail what they include. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water, nor does it 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.

Solid and air pollution 
The company is reducing the production of hazardous waste but is not reducing plastic use and waste in its own operations. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. However, it does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions 
The company is not reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. It has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions but does not report progress against the target. Moreover, the target is not aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. The company is not reducing its scope 3 emissions. It does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions or report progress against this target. Consequently, it is unclear whether the target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species 
While the company has a commitment to help protect ecosystems from the introduction of IAS, no further evidence that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of IAS in its own operations could be found in the public domain. No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of IAS in its value chain.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment 
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights 
The company does not require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rightsholders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

While the company discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its financing activities. The company describes its process(es) for assessing its human rights risks. However, it has an opportunity to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. While the company discloses that it conducts routine human rights risk assessments and that it remediates in locations with the highest risk, no evidence was found that it has a global system to act on all its salient human rights issues. Nor is there evidence that the company provides an example of the conclusions reached and actions taken or to be taken on at least one of its salient human rights issues as a result of assessment processes. The company discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities, but there is no evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of its own workers and expecting its suppliers to do the same. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It also has an opportunity to describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in this regard.

The company discloses a tax strategy, but it is not applicable to all its operations. The company takes steps to identify and address bribery and corruption, and it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. The company outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement but does not formalise this approach in a public policy document. The company specifies that it does not make political contributions.