Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Schwarz Gruppe does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. While the company has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it does not specify how they plan to achieve their target, what resources they will use, or how they will measure their progress.
Finally, the company is not committed to ecosystem restoration and does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
GHG emissions
Schwarz Gruppe has a target to reduce its scope 3 emissions, but it only covers part of the segments. It should set a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. Additionally, the company should reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and should report progress against its targets.
Impact and dependencies assessment
Schwarz Gruppe has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.
Invasive species
Schwarz Gruppe has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
Key areas and species
Schwarz Gruppe has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.
Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Schwarz Gruppe has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.
Solid and air pollution
Schwarz Gruppe should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. It could also report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
Water
Schwarz Gruppe has an opportunity to demonstrate reductions in water withdrawal, set time-bound targets, and engage with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution, does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water, and 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.
