OCP

Lobbying
OCP discloses some professional associations it is a member of. It has however an opportunity to show further leadership by disclosing a full list of trade associations it is a member of for all geographies.

Stakeholder engagement
OCP discloses an overview of the issues raised during its ongoing and regular stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group. Furthermore, its stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, nutrition, and social areas.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
OCP 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.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
OCP is committed to restoring ecosystems and aligns with the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

GHG emissions
OCP has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against them. It also has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions and reports progress against it.

Key areas and species
OCP has disclosed that in 2021, none of its activity sites – whether owned, rented, or managed – were located in or adjacent to protected or biodiversity-rich areas.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
OCP discloses its inputs according to an international standard. It also discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices and sets a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and reports progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
OCP has targets to reduce total amounts of hazardous waste and reports progress against them. It also discloses the proportion of hazardous waste treated to reduce pollution compared to total waste, the hazardous waste diverted from disposal and the waste directed to disposal. OCP also reports regularly on the emissions of harmful air pollutants and has time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
OCP has shown efforts in reducing water withdrawal, setting pertinent targets, and detailing withdrawals in water-stressed regions. It also communicates its procedures for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. Committed to upholding the right to water, OCP shares its approaches for implementing preventive and corrective action plans, addressing specific risks related to the right to water and sanitation within its operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
OCP discloses its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
OCP is committed 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. Additionally, it demonstrates that its human rights risks and impacts identification process includes a focus on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
OCP has publicly committed to safeguarding personal data and discloses its global tax strategy. An executive-level body is appointed to oversee this strategy. Additionally, OCP upholds a policy against bribery and corruption, ensuring anti-bribery and anti-corruption terms are integrated into contracts with its direct business partners. A dedicated grievance mechanism allows stakeholders to voice concerns about bribery and corruption. On top of that, the company’s stance on lobbying and political engagement is communicated in a policy statement.

Provide and promote decent work
OCP makes a public commitment to worker health and safety through a policy statement. This expectation extends to its business partners, with the company detailing its process for monitoring supplier compliance.

Furthermore, OCP guarantees employees a living wage as defined by the Global Living Wage Coalition. The company also enforces working hour limits, ensuring they do not surpass 48 hours in a standard week or 60 hours with overtime. It also communicates the share of its workforce under collective bargaining agreements.

In terms of workforce diversity, OCP shares the distribution of employees across categories based on age, gender, and race or ethnicity. Emphasising its dedication to gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company aims to elevate women’s representation by 47% in management and 30% in senior roles by 2030.

Respect human rights
OCP is transparent with a policy statement that pledges respect for human rights and ILO core labour rights throughout its operations and supply chain. The company delineates its approaches for spotting human rights risks in its operations and supply chain, shedding light on how these risks are assessed and highlighting salient issues. A provided case study offers insight into how OCP tackled a significant human rights risk.

Moreover, OCP identifies stakeholders such as employees, contractors, suppliers, women, children, local communities, and migrant workers who might be impacted by its operations. The company also makes stakeholders aware of a human rights grievance mechanism, ensuring it’s accessible to anyone who might be negatively affected by its activities.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company discloses some sustainability targets such as climate, water, soil health and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, the company could improve its performance by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion or to ensure zero conversion, nor does it have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. Additionally, the company does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion or to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Finally, the company does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company’s scope 1, 2 and 3 targets have an opportunity to be aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company has expressed a commitment to measure and control impacts on biodiversity specific to its projects, it still has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations, along with the methodology and results. Additionally, the company can further assess the impact on biodiversity in its supply chain, as well as evaluate its dependencies on nature both within its own operations and in its 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
While the company has announced its collaboration with JESA for a pilot study at the Boucraa mine to enhance the mapping of endangered species, it still has an opportunity to provide a detailed list of species in or near its operations. Furthermore, shedding light on supplier locations crucial for biodiversity, species populations near supplier sites, and the conservation status of these species, aligned with both national and global standards, would fortify their transparency in conservation matters.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
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, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste. It could also provide quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and the use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.

Water
The company has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report a decrease in water pollution. The company does not regularly report on water pollution. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not disclose a commitment to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Also, the company does not disclose its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to outline its approach to identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts within specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Furthermore, although the company specifies that it only allows political contributions with prior approval and within the boundaries of applicable laws and regulations, there is an opportunity to clarify whether these contributions are exceptional cases. It could also detail the criteria guiding these exceptions. Moreover, the company could enhance transparency by disclosing its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company has established wage expectations for its suppliers, there is an opportunity to introduce a requirement for them to adhere to a living wage standard. This opportunity can be paired with a disclosure of the company’s support mechanism for implementing such the payment. Additionally, the company could enhance transparency by reporting information such as the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.