Quanta Services

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

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
While Quanta Services discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, it does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain according to the SBTN materiality table. Furthermore, while the company links its long-term equity incentives to fleet management criteria, the company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature (including biodiversity), and social issues. Additionally, the company states that six out of the nine board members have ESG experience but no evidence that the company’s highest governance body has expertise with respect to its most material pressures on nature could be found in the public domain.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has a strong opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities as well as its process for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond its materiality assessment.

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
Quanta Services does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains but has an opportunity to set related time-bound targets. While the company “employs systems and procedures designed to minimize activities and conditions that pose a threat to the environment”, no evidence that the company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion in the most material parts of its value chain could be found in the public domain. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems nor does it disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity
Quanta Services does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. While the company discloses activities to improve soil health, it does not have a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
No quantitative evidence was found of reductions in water withdrawal across the company’s own operations. Quanta Servies has a strong opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and to report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company also does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality and does not regularly report on water pollution. It has an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution as well as a commitment to respect the right to water. Furthermore, 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
Quanta Services is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. While the company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants, it has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
Quanta Services is not reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions nor does it disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company has a strong opportunity to set a scope 1 and 2 emissions target aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, it does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions and has also an opportunity to set a target to reduce its scope 3 emissions aligned with a 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 show if it is committed 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
Quanta Services does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or Land rights of local communities.

While the company discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts through its business relationships. The company has an opportunity to describe a process for assessing the human rights risks it has identified and to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. While the company discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. While the company provides general examples of engagement with stakeholders, it has an opportunity to clarify if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. There is no evidence that the company discloses a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. There is no evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. There is no evidence that the company describes how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to those.

There is no evidence that the company has a publicly available global tax strategy. There is no evidence that the company describes the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. In a public policy statement, The company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement. There is no evidence that the company has a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions.