Suzano Papel e Celulose

Lobbying
Suzano Papel e Celulose discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, including biodiversity, and social issues.

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 and reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company has a commitment to ensure zero conversion.

GHG emissions
The company demonstrates reduction in its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions compared to the previous year.

Key areas and species
The company discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operations.

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

Solid and air pollution
The company is reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste.

Water
The company has a commitment to respect the right to water. It has a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations and reports progress against the target. Furthermore, the company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas, and demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

The company regularly reports on water pollution, and discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. It discloses its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations. Finally, the company requires access to water and sanitation, including refraining from negatively affecting access to safe water, to be included in contractual arrangements with its business relationships.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company is committed to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Also, the company discloses its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company is committed 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. Additionally, it demonstrates that its human rights risks and impacts identification process includes a focus on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company not only discloses a global tax strategy but also demonstrates a strong commitment to ethical practices. It has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, the company has established a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption, reaffirming its dedication to transparency and accountability. Additionally, the company specifies that it does not make political contributions, aligning itself with responsible corporate conduct.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. It also has a publicly available policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. To ensure compliance, the company has implemented an IDF (Supplier Performance Index) program that monitors and assesses the health and safety performance of its business relationships.

The company’s commitment extends to gender equality and women’s empowerment, as it publicly commits to these principles and discloses its target to achieve 30% representation of women in leadership positions by 2025. Currently, out of 9 board directors, the company boasts a board composition of 33.3% women, reflecting its dedication to promoting gender diversity at the highest levels of governance

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that explicitly commits to respecting the ILO core labour rights, not only for its own operations but also for its suppliers, reinforcing the importance of these rights throughout its supply chain.

Furthermore, the company has completed corporate due diligence to map these risks comprehensively, and it transparently describes the processes it employs to identify and assess these risks. In addition to its internal efforts, the company is dedicated to respecting human rights across its stakeholder spectrum. It discloses the categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. Moreover, the company takes a proactive approach to grievance mechanisms, ensuring accessibility for all.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

Stakeholder engagement
The company could disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities, as well as its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, including frequency and channels, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. 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
The company does not have a commitment or time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains, and does not disclose activities working towards zero conversion. Furthermore, the company is not committed to restoring ecosystems, and it 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 discloses that it aims to reduce carbon emissions intensity (scope 1 and scope 2) per ton of product produced (tCO2eq/t) by 15% by 2030. However, intensity-based targets are not considered for this indicator. The company should set a time-bound target to reduce its absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions. Additionally, it should report progress against this target. Moreover, it should also set a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions and report progress against it. Crucially, 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 should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties.

Water
The company has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report a decrease in water pollution nor targets to reduce water pollution.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights as set out in the relevant part(s) of the VGGT’s or the IFC Performance Standards nor does it require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations, while also having a policy outlining its lobbying and political engagement approach. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and stipulate that third-party lobbyists must comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers. Additionally, it can disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or confirming that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage.

Moreover, the company could be transparent about how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. While the company has already set expectations regarding the wages paid by its suppliers, it could enhance its commitment by adding a requirement for them to pay a living wage. Furthermore, it should disclose how it supports the implementation of this requirement.

Lastly, the company could disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.