Impact and dependencies assessment
While the subsidiary Tetra Pak provides some information on its impact on nature, no evidence that the company assesses its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations at the group level could be found in the public domain.
Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
While Tetra Laval discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment as well as time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. Furthermore, the company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversionand discloses some related activities but has yet to commit to restoring ecosystems. While the subsidiary Tetra Pak has launched a “nature-based” restoration project, no evidence that the company discloses yet details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or upstream business relationships could be found in the public domain.
Resource exploitation and circularity
The company does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. While the company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, it does not have a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.
Water
While the company provides some qualitative evidence, no quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across the company’s own operations could be found in the public domain. Tetra Laval has a strong opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations as well as to report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company also does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Furthermore, the company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality nor does itregularly report on water pollution. The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollutionas well as 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.
Solid and air pollution
The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. While Tetra Laval shows some activities to reduce plastic use and waste in its own operations, itdoes not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal nor does it disclose quantitative evidence. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutantsand has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
Tetra Laval has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissionsbut does not report progress against it. While the subsidiary Tetra Pak has a target aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory, no evidence that the company’s scope 1 and 2 target is aligned with 1.5°C trajectory at the group level could be found in the public domain. The company is not reducing its scope 3 emissions. Tetra Laval has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory and to report against it.
Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
