Royal Caribbean Group

Lobbying
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses its process for engaging with stakeholder groups.

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

Solid and air pollution
The company discloses that its target is to reduce 100% of single-use plastic and reports against the target set. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company reports a decrease in water pollution and discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

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

Act ethically
The company maintains a publicly available policy statement against bribery and corruption, stipulating that all payments must be for lawful, legitimate business purposes and accurately recorded. It also provides a reporting system accessible via a website, phone, and email, enabling stakeholders to raise concerns anonymously and without fear of reprisal.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has published a policy statement affirming its commitment to worker health and safety, and expects the same commitment from its business relationships. This includes the provision of a safe and healthy working environment, with opportunities for employee expression without fear of retaliation. The policy is reinforced by expectations placed on suppliers and business partners to adhere to these health and safety principles.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy, endorsed by its highest governance body, committing it to respect fundamental human rights and labour principles as outlined by the ILO and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It prohibits all forms of forced and child labour, while condemning modern slavery and human trafficking. Discrimination is not accepted on grounds including race, gender, or disability, ensuring fair treatment in employment decisions. The company also recognises the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining, expecting its suppliers and business partners to uphold these principles in their operations.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets, as well as potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

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
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.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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
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.

Solid and air pollution
The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
No quantitative evidence was found of reductions in water withdrawal across the company’s own operations. Additionally, it does not provide a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal or report the amount of water withdrawn for its operations in water-stressed areas, nor engages with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not regularly report on water pollution metrics, nor 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
The company mentions risk-based controls in its anti-corruption program but fails to detail the identification processes for these risks. Although it outlines guidelines for political contributions, there is no comprehensive disclosure of its lobbying and political engagement policies. Moreover, the extent of its lobbying expenditures remains unclear. The company has an opportunity to clarify its processes for identifying bribery and corruption risks and to provide comprehensive disclosures on its lobbying and political engagement practices.

Provide and promote decent work
The company reports on specific health and safety rates but lacks detailed disclosures on all types of work-related injuries and does not describe how it monitors health and safety among its business partners. While it ensures compliance with wage laws, it does not confirm if wages are sufficient for a decent living or detail its support for living wages in business relationships. Although it has taken steps towards addressing gender pay equity, it lacks a broad commitment to gender equality and empowerment. The company has an opportunity to provide a complete picture of its health and safety performance, detail its living wage determinations and supports, and strengthen its commitment to gender equality, including increasing female representation on its board to meet or exceed 30%.

Respect human rights
The company is in the early stages of human rights impact assessments, particularly focusing on hiring partners and crew members, and recognizes human rights as a significant business risk. However, it lacks a comprehensive process to identify and address these risks across operations and business relationships. While it maintains review processes for suppliers, these are not clearly linked to a methodical human rights risk assessment. The company has an opportunity to develop and disclose a detailed method for identifying salient human rights issues, considering broader geographical, economic, and social factors, and to implement a transparent, global system for addressing these risks.