Siat Group

Stakeholder engagement
Siat Group discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups.

Resource exploitation and circularity
Siat Group discloses qualitative examples of promoting soil health, including installing cover plants on all its oil palm plantations to limit soil erosion and improve the soil fertility.

No leading practices were identified in this area.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Siat Group discloses no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Stakeholder engagement
Siat Group does not disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Lobbying
Siat Group does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Siat Group 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
Siat Group 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
Siat Group does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion, nor time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion, but it discloses some activities to minimise ecosystem conversion. Siat Group does not disclose a clear commitment to restore ecosystems, nor disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding Siat Group’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. Siat Group does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
Siat Group does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Solid and air pollution
Siat Group does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

GHG emissions
Siat Group does not disclose any greenhouse gas emissions, nor has it set a time-bound reduction target. The company must immediately set a reduction target aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species
Siat Group has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of IAS in its own operations.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Siat Group does not disclose a commitment 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.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
Siat Group does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Siat Group has an opportunity to describe a comprehensive process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, especially through its business relationships, and for assessing the human rights risks it has identified. It is also encouraged to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that Siat Group has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. Siat Group discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues. However, it is unclear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that Siat Group provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

Siat Group has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. However, there is no evidence that the company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers was found. Siat Group states that it communicates information on minimum entitlements for wages and conditions of employment. However, it 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. The company should also take steps towards describing how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Siat Group has an opportunity to disclose the coverage of collective bargaining agreements, and to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Siat Group has an opportunity to publish a global tax strategy and should assign responsibility for this strategy to an executive-level individual or body. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption and its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption. Siat Group is encouraged to disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document.