Saipem

Stakeholder engagement

Saipem discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups. It also highlights the actions taken and its initiatives in its reporting on nature, biodiversity and social issues. These include the latest technology for environmental monitoring, social initiatives around the world and its membership of trade associations.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration

Saipem discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers, including several in freshwater ecosystems in the Niger Delta. The company also discloses ecosystem restoration efforts beyond areas affected by its own operations or suppliers, including land restoration near its headquarters and reforestation initiatives in various locations around the world.

Water

Saipem requires access to water and sanitation, including refraining from negatively affecting access to safe water of local communities, to be included in contractual arrangements with its business relationships.

Solid and air pollution

Saipem discloses the proportion of hazardous waste treated to reduce pollution compared to total waste. This hazardous waste is separated and incinerated or recycled in Saipem’s own plants. The company also reports activities to reduce single-use plastics as well as a road map to reduce all types of waste throughout its operations.

Invasive species

Saipem discloses its processes for preventing the introduction of invasive species in its NLNG Train 7 Project and provides details about it.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability

Saipem 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. However, it does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Where it has targets, the company reports consistently against them. 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. Nor does it disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement

Saipem does not disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Lobbying

Saipem discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates. However, it does not disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with nature-positive policies. Nor does it report (potential) misalignment between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and nature-positive policies.

Impact and dependencies assessment

While Saipem states it is committed to the identification and evaluation of all potential impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services deriving from its operations, no sufficient evidence was found that the company systematically assesses its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations. It also does not disclose any assessment of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, in its supply chain. The company does not disclose any assessment of its dependencies on nature within its own operations or of its upstream business relationships.

Key areas and species

Saipem discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operations. However, it does not disclose the locations of its suppliers that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity. The company does not disclose species populations existing in or adjacent to its own locations or the locations of its suppliers, but it does disclose the status according to national and international conservation lists of species identified in its own locations.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration

Saipem does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion or any activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. It also does not disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion and discloses some activities to this effect. However, it does not disclose a commitment to restore ecosystems.

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. Even though the company discloses activities to improve soil health, it does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water

Saipem demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, but it does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. Even though the company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas, it does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report a decrease in water pollution or any processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution and does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water of local communities. Nor does it 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

Saipem is reducing the production of hazardous waste. However, no evidence was found that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. However, it reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. These include NOx, SO2, CO, PM10 and NMVO. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions

Saipem is reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and has an associated time-bound reduction target. It reports progress against this target, but there is no evidence that the target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. No evidence was found that the company is reducing its scope 3 emissions. It does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions or report progress against this target. As such, there is no evidence that the target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species

No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive species in its own operations or in its value chain.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

Saipem does not disclose a commitment to respect 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

Saipem does not disclose a commitment to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Saipem describes the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. However, it 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, such as geographical, economic and social, are considered. While the company discloses that it conducts routine human rights risk assessments and that it remediates in locations with the highest risk, no evidence was found that it has a global system to act on all 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.

Saipem has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. It also has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. However, the company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage, and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Although the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, there is no evidence that the company describes how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

No evidence was found that Saipem has a publicly available global tax strategy or if it describes the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. However, it does include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. No evidence was found that the company has a publicly available policy statement or policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach, although it specifies that it does not make political contributions.