Nufarm

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 and reports consistently against all its targets.

GHG emissions
Nufarm reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Key areas and species
The company discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operations.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company openly shares its efforts to enhance soil health and agrobiodiversity through its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
Nufarm is reducing the production of hazardous waste, has reduction targets and reports progress against them. It also discloses the proportion of hazardous waste treated to reduce pollution, the hazardous waste diverted from disposal and the waste directed to disposal. In addition, the company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants, has a time-bound target to reduce its VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions and reports quantitative reductions against it. Finally, the company engages in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. The company regularly reports on water pollution.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Moreover, the company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company publicly commits to worker health and safety, extending this expectation to its business relationships, and revealing its monitoring approach. Additionally, it discloses the coverage of collective bargaining agreements among its direct operations workforce. Furthermore, the company provides the the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group, and by gender. It further discloses that it has 44.44% women on the board. The company targets a 35% representation of either gender in its workforce by 2025, and aims for a senior leadership composition of 40% females, 40% males and 20% from other gender identities 2030.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Moreover, the company has an established human rights grievance mechanism that is open to all employees, as well as all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company’s activities.

Lobbying
While the company discloses some trade associations, it has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member of for all jurisdictions where it operates. Addtionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process for engaging with each stakeholder, including frequency and channels, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and social inclusion. However, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, while it discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability and nature-related objectives, it could link this policy to improvement in social issues. Lastly, although the board of directors possesses expertise in biodiversity, the company could enhance transparency by disclosing whether its highest governance body has the necessary knowledge regarding the most significant sustainability topics.

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 3 emissions and all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company states that it examines biodiversity impacts in its product portfolio through various risk assessments such as human toxicology, environmental fate, and ecotoxicology studies. However, the company has an opportunity to conduct a holistic assessment of its impact on nature and disclose the methodology and results of these assessments. It also has not disclosed its nature-related impacts or dependencies within its supply chain, own operations, or upstream business partnerships.

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 the company discloses the presence of the Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus near its site in Gaillon, France, it has not provided a comprehensive list of all species existing in or adjacent to its locations. This leaves an opportunity for the company to expand its disclosure to include the status of species, ideally aligned with national and international conservation lists. The company could also benefit from disclosing the locations of its suppliers that are in or adjacent to areas significant for biodiversity, as well as any species populations existing in or adjacent to those supplier locations.

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 has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. It should also commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. Additionally, the company could work on reducing the production of hazardous substances.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to improve on its disclosure on water pollution by setting disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose relevant information on rights 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 describe its process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts. Additionally, it can establish a policy outlining its strategy for engaging in lobbying and political activities. Furthermore, while the company states that it makes political donations after approval from the chairman of the Board and the CEO, it could provide transparency by specifying the conditions under which these donations are permitted, clarifying the criteria for exceptions, and addressing any non-donation forms of political contributions. Moreover, the company could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound objective for ensuring that all workers receive a living wage, or declare the achievement of this goal. Further, it could provide insight on its methods to determine a living wage in the regions where it operations. Although the company has established expectations on the wages paid by its supplies, it could augment this by requiring them to provide a living wage, along with the disclosure of how the company supports this payment.

Additionally, while the company has demonstrated commitment to equal opportunities and has taken steps towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, it could make an explicit commitment to these principles in a policy document. Moreover, the company can enhance transparency by disclosing the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women.

Respect human rights
While the company has identified one human rights risk and its impacts in its own operations, and discloses that a third party conducts its CSR assessments, It has an opportunity to describe its risk identification process in its operations and through relevant business relationships. It cold further describe how it assesses and identifies what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Further, while the company discloses that it conducts risk assessments and remediates on a specific human right, it could disclose a global system to act on all its salient human rights issues in all its activities.