Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Syngenta Group does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion, and does not have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.
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
Syngenta Group 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, 2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
Syngenta Group 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
Syngenta Group has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
Key areas and species
Syngenta Group 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
Syngenta Group 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. It has an opportunity to set and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. While the company describes its commitments to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data, including the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Water
Syngenta Group does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. It has an opportunity to disclose a target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against it. Syngenta Group also has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations, and it does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. Finally, Syngenta Group 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.
