Thai Beverage

Stakeholder engagement
Thai Beverage discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company describes 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. Also, it has group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Thai Beverage has a commitment to ensure zero conversion, and discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

GHG emissions
The company has time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and reports progress against these targets.

Key areas and species
Thai Beverage 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 its activities to enhance soil health and agrobiodiversity in both its production and sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
Thai Beverage demonstrates its commitment to reducing plastic use and transitioning towards sustainable packaging through its policies and activities.

Water
The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. It reports its water withdrawals for own operations in water-stressed areas, and also demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

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

Act ethically
Thai Beverage publicly commits to safeguarding personal data, and also reveals its global tax strategy. Additionally, it has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, incorporating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Furthermore, the company provides disclosure on its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Moreover, it discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
Thai Beverage has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, it discloses its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain. Moreover, the company discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities such as women, children, indigenous people, migrant labour, contracted labour, local communities, LGBTQI and disabled people.

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.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Thai Beverage reports consistently against some targets including climate, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets. 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
Thai Beverage lacks time-bound targets for achieving conversion-free supply chains, and it also fails to demonstrate a commitment towards restoring ecosystems. Additionally, it does not provide transparency regarding the details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas impacted by its own operations or those of its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company’s greenhouse gas emission targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Thai Beverage carries out a Critical Habitat Assessment at 40 locations but has an opportunity to further assess its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and upstream business relationships. It also has not disclosed assessments regarding its dependencies on nature either within its own operations or in its 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 Thai Beverage acknowledges the presence of three vulnerable species in proximity to its own locations, there is an opportunity to provide a more comprehensive list of species, as well as their status according to national and international conservation lists. Further transparency could also be achieved by disclosing the locations of suppliers that are situated near areas significant for biodiversity, along with information on species populations in those areas.

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. It also has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Solid and air pollution
Thai Beverage should commit to avoiding 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 discloses that its operating plants measure ozone-depleting substances, such as CO, NOx, and SOx, however, it has an opportunity to disclose the underlying data and set 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 the use of sustainable packaging, including the amount of plastic waste generated and the proportions directed from or to disposal.

Water
Thai Beverage has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to improve its disclosure of water pollution by disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose relevant information on rights to water in its operations or supply chains.

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

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Thai Beverage 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
Thai Beverage could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts. Additionally, while the company has a mechanism for employees to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could disclose a mechanism accessible to all stakeholders. Moreover, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach. It further has an opportunity to disclose a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
While Thai Beverage adheres to compliance with laws related to health and safety, it could formalize its commitment in a policy document. It could also disclose methods for monitoring health and safety performance of suppliers. Furthermore, the company can enhance its commitment to fair wages by setting a time-bound target for achieving a living wage, extending this requirement to suppliers, and detailing the support it provides. It could also further disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates.

In addition, while Thai Beverage has undertaken initiatives in diversity and equality, it could make an explicit commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, accompanied by time-bound targets, as well as the disclosure of the basic salary and remuneration ratio between women and men.

Respect human rights
While Thai Beverage discloses that it has a human rights due diligence process, and that it has identified some human rights risks and impacts in its own operations, it has an opportunity to describe comprehensively the process for identifying these risks and impacts in its operations and supply chain. Further, while it discloses its salient human rights issues, it can further disclose the process for assessing the saliency of these risks more clearly.