Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Orkla does not disclose a commitment 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 is not committed to ecosystem restoration and does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
GHG emissions
Orkla should reduce its emissions across all scopes and report progress against its targets. Crucially, its scope 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While Orkla acknowledges its impact on nature primarily stems from raw material purchases and is involved in research projects like BIOPATH and Mistra Food Futures, it has the opportunity to assess its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations. The company also has the opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature within its supply chain. Moreover, it can evaluate and disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and within its upstream business relationships.
Invasive species
Orkla has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
Key areas and species
Orkla 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
Orkla has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.
Solid and air pollution
Orkla should commit to avoid 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 has an opportunity to set and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. The company could also report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
Orkla shows an increase in its water withdrawal. The company has an opportunity to engage with its suppliers to improve water withdrawal practices. Furthermore, the company does not set targets to reduce water pollutants, and does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. Finally, Orkla does not 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.
