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 The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.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.