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Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company 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.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
The company has a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations and reports progress against the target, and it demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

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

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to respecting the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, it states that it pays fair living wages and benefits to its employees. Moreover, it discloses the proportion of women in its workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Furthermore, the company engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

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

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, water and ecosystem conversion. However, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Also, while the company reports consistently against some targets including ecosystem conversion, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets. Additionally, although the company assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management, it could assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, it could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Lastly, the company could improve its transparency by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’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.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company 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
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 does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company does not disclose water withdrawals from water-stressed areas, nor show evidence of engaging with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not disclose relevant information on 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.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit 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. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
While the company aligns with specific regulations on bribery and corruption, it has an opportunity to disclose a general commitment prohibiting such practices, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities within its operations. Furthermore, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to report anonymously or reveal their identity.

Moreover, the company has the opportunity to create a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specify that it does not make political contributions, and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement expecting its suppliers to prioritize worker health and safety. Additionally, while the company conducts root-cause analysis for all declared incident and routine safety audits, it can also reveal its mechanism for monitoring supplier health and safety performance.

Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Although the company has partnered with the Sustainable Trade Initiative to assess farmers’ living income gap, it can also describe how it supports the payment of a living wage by its other business relationships.

Moreover, while the company has initiatives related to women’s empowerment, there is an opportunity for the company to explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense. The company could disclose time-bound targets and report data, including the ratio of women’s basic salary and remuneration to men’s.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work within its operations and supply chain. While the company states that it has implemented a process to identify, prevent and mitigate adverse impacts on human rights, it could elaborate on this process of identifying risks and impacts within its own operations and supply chain. The company could further describe its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.