Reckitt

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts in relation to its sustainability strategy.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers. The company discloses ecosystem restoration efforts beyond areas affected by its own operations or suppliers by working with the WWF to restore and protect freshwater resources in the Amazon and Ganges ecosystems.

GHG emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses the various types of packaging material used by weight. However, the company does not report all the inputs used by weight or volume and recycled input materials. However, the disclosure of its inputs is limited to its packaging materials, providing the company with an opportunity to improve disclosure in this area. The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
The company discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. It discloses targets to reduce virgin plastic and increase reused plastics in packaging. It reports on the proportion of plastic packaging that is recyclable or reusable.

Water
The company demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company reports a decrease in water pollution and discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company regularly reports on water pollution metrics.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company requires its business relationships to identify and recognise affected Indigenous Peoples and to obtain their free, prior and informed consent regarding whether and how to carry out projects.

Act ethically
The company maintains a publicly available policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, extending this stance to its third parties, with breaches potentially leading to contract termination. It operates a reporting system via a website, allowing stakeholders to raise concerns about bribery and corruption anonymously. Furthermore, the company has clear policies on lobbying and political engagement, explicitly stating that it does not make political contributions and requires transparency and compliance from third parties conducting advocacy activities. Additionally, it mandates adherence to national and international laws and its own policies, including anti-bribery regulations.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has publicly committed to the health and safety of workers and respects these standards in its business relationships. It requires business partners to comply with occupational health and safety regulations or ILO standards and maintains a health and safety management system with objectives and risk assessments. The company conducts audits of high-risk suppliers at least every three years and requires completion of a Sedex SAQ for compliance in labour standards and health and safety. It targets a 50% female representation in its management team, senior management, and global executive committee by 2030. It provides sponsorship, mentoring, and leadership programmes aimed at promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. Additionally, 33.33% of its board members are female.

Respect human rights
The company demonstrates a robust commitment to human rights through its partnership with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, using comprehensive assessments to identify salient human rights impacts. Their Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA) focus on a wide range of impacts across the value chain, assessing risks in markets globally. This approach is underpinned by a Responsible Workplace programme that enhances compliance across their operations and supply chains through engagement, self-assessment, risk assessment, auditing, and training, managed by a dedicated team of regional experts. They actively develop tools to address human rights issues, supported by ongoing stakeholder engagement including NGOs, customers, and investors.

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.

Stakeholder engagement
While the company discloses an overview of its stakeholder engagement plan, it has an opportunity to disclose more comprehensive details including an overview of the issues raised or its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, including frequency and channels.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide, time-bound targets on all key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain, nor does it report against all of its targets. 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.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company discloses its time-bound targets for achieve conversion-free supply chains for timber and palm oil. However, no evidence found that company reports the time-bound targets to achieve zero conversion for all relevant high-risk commodities or across all material realms. The company discloses that it is taking actions to protect and restore nature. However, no evidence found that the company provides the commitment regarding the restoration of ecosystems.

GHG emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress against the targets it has set.

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.

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
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.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. It also does not report metrics on air pollutants, nor set time-bound targets to reduce them.

Water
While the company has a target to reduce water withdrawal, the target is intensity based and does not necessarily result in an absolute reduction of water withdrawal. The company engages with suppliers, but does not show evidence of reducing their water withdrawal. The company does not report targets to reduce water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

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
Despite stating compliance with anti-bribery rules, the company does not describe how it identifies specific bribery and corruption risks. Furthermore, while it discloses trade association expenditures, it does not clarify if these represent total lobbying expenses. The company has an opportunity to explain its risk identification processes related to bribery and corruption and to ensure clarity in its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company shares certain health and safety indicators but omits specific injury types and total hours worked. It is recognised as a Living Wage Employer in the UK, yet there is no clear target for achieving living wage payments globally or details on supporting living wages among its business partners. It provides some gender pay gap data but lacks comprehensive salary ratio disclosures. The company has an opportunity to enhance its reporting on health and safety, provide a global strategy for living wages, and improve transparency in its efforts towards gender equality.

Respect human rights
Although it identifies and assesses human rights impacts, there is a need for continuous and dynamic reassessment to adapt to changing circumstances and to cover all operational areas comprehensively. While it has initiated measures to address identified human rights issues, ensuring the consistent implementation and effectiveness of these measures across all regions and suppliers is crucial. Additionally, enhancing transparency and accountability mechanisms to track progress and the actual impact of interventions remains essential.