Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA)

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups.

No leading practices were identified in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

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 does not report consistently against all its targets. The company does not disclose having individuals, teams or committees within the company responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy. No 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. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose 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 does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

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. Whilst the company states it worked to protect the endangered wedge-tailed eagle, white-bellied sea eagle and other rare birds in its Wild Cattle Hill Wind Farm, it has an opportunity to provide details or outcomes of this project.

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 does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.

Water
No evidence that the company reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Whilst the company states it has set up waste-water treatment systems to collect and treat production wastewater until meeting the threshold for discharge, it has an opportunity to provide information on how this process reduces water quality pressures. The company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company 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.

Solid and air pollution
No evidence that the company is reducing the production of hazardous waste was found. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. 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. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
The company does not disclose any greenhouse gas emissions, nor has it set a time-bound reduction target. The company must immediately set a reduction target aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Safe, healthy, clean environment
The company does not disclose a commitment 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 disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

While the company conducts a ESG risk assessment to identify the main risks to the business. However, there is no evidence found in English that the company carries out human rights due diligence that includes a process to identify its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. There is no evidence found in English that the company has identified what human rights are at risk of being impacted as a result of its operations, supply chains and financing activities and therefore there is no evidence of a process for assessing the saliency of these risks There is no evidence found in English, that the company publicly discloses the results of its assessments, which may be aggregated across its operations and locations. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. The company discloses a list of the stakeholders it engages with in general that includes government, shareholders, clients, partners, staff and community. However, it has an opportunity to disclose the categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

The company discloses it has always considered the health of employees and stakeholders as the top priority. However, it has an opportunity to formalise this in a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers. There is no evidence found in English, that the company discloses a statement expecting its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. There is no evidence found in English, that the company has set a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. No evidence that the company describes how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers was found.  There is no evidence found in English, that the company discloses the coverage of collective bargaining agreements. There is no evidence found in English, that the company supports the practices of its business relationships in relation to freedom of association ad collective bargaining.

There is no evidence found in English, that the company has a publicly available global tax strategy, which is approved by the highest governance body. There is no evidence found in English,  that the company describes the process(es) to identify its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. There is no evidence found in English, that the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.  There is no evidence found in English, that the company has a publicly available policy statement(s) setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach There is no evidence found in English, that the company has a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions