Impact and dependencies assessment
Shenzhou International 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
Shenzhou International 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
No evidence was found regarding Shenzhou International’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.
Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding Shenzhou International’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. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
While Shenzhou International discloses its water use, the amount increases compared to ㄍ previous year. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.
Shenzhou International discloses its practice of implementing water treatment facilities to recycle polluted water during the dyeing process to reduce water quality pressures. The company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. 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
Shenzhou International is reducing the production of hazardous waste. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company reports regularly on its sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and smoke and dust as air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
No evidence that Shenzhou International reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions was found. The company sets a target to reduce 42% of scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2030 compared to the baseline year in 2020 which is aligned with the 1.5-degree trajectory, yet no evidence that the company reports progress against the target. The company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Shenzhou International does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company must immediately set a reduction target aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree trajectory.
Invasive species
Shenzhou International has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.