Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion, nor time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose activities to minimise or ensure conversion-free supply chains. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems and does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company’s Business Units conduct environmental risk analyses and have treatment and management plans in place, there’s an opportunity for the company to assess its impacts on nature, including biodiversity. The company also has the opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature within its supply chain, as well as evaluate its own dependencies on nature and those of its upstream business relationships.
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 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
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 should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste. It has an opportunity to 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. The company could also report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
The company has an opportunity to improve its water withdrawal disclosure by setting targets, reporting on withdrawals from water-stressed areas, and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to disclose metrics related to water pollution and set targets accordingly. 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.
