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
Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and report progress against its targets. Also, its 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
While the company promotes biodiversity through free seed mixtures for flower strips benefiting various animals and insects, there is room for enhanced transparency. Specifically, it can disclose the species populations near its own and its suppliers’ locations, along with their conservation statuses according to national and international lists. Additionally, it can identify its own and suppliers’ sites adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, thereby contributing to a more comprehensive sustainability strategy.
Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company 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
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 provide quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
The company has increased its water withdrawal. No evidence was found that the company sets a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal. The company has an opportunity to disclose water pollution metrics, and set targets to reduce water quality pressures. 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.
