The Clorox Company

Lobbying
The company discloses the list of trade, industry, and policy associations of which it is a member.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised in stakeholder engagement activities, as well as its engagement process.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts in relation to its sustainability strategy, and provides evidence of its director’s expertise on sustainability-related issues.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company discloses that it has a public commitment to reduce or remove deforestation and/or forest degradation from its direct operations and/or supply chain, and reports working with smallholders to reduce deforestation and/or conversion of natural ecosystems.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, which are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. The company reports against its scope 1 and 2 targets.

Solid and air pollution
The company discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company reports a target of increasing recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging, and discloses againts its target. The company discloses percentage of packaging made from recycled and/or renewable materials and percentage that is recyclable, reusable, and/or compostable.

Water
The company demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

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

Act ethically
The company has a publicly available policy statement and a business partner code of conduct both strictly prohibiting bribery and corruption, stating that any breach may lead to termination of business relationships. Compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other anti-corruption laws is mandatory. The company provides multiple channels, including a hotline and a website, where stakeholders can raise concerns anonymously without fear of reprisals, ensuring open and confidential reporting mechanisms are accessible.

Provide and promote decent work
The company commits to respecting worker health and safety, with a publicly available policy and expectations for its business relationships to uphold similar standards. It mandates that business partners maintain safe working environments and comply with safety and health regulations, supporting this with audits and site visits. Additionally, the company ensures supplier compliance through third-party audits and memberships in initiatives like Sedex. The company discloses that 50% of its board members are female, affirming its commitment to gender equality.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available human rights policy, endorsed by its highest governance body, emphasising respect for the rights of employees and communities. It expects business partners to create workplaces free from discrimination, harassment, and abuse, and to respect workers’ rights to organise and bargain collectively. These standards are extended to preventing human trafficking and modern slavery in their operations. Business partners are also required to adhere to all applicable child labour laws, ensuring that work does not interfere with education and does not involve exploitative practices.

Lobbying
While the company states that it ensures that all political giving is aligned with its corporate strategic goals. However, no evidence found that the company discloses a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with nature-positive policies, including how it addresses potential misalignment between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and nature-positive policies.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide, time-bound targets on all key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain, nor does it report against all of its targets. The company ensures that ESG components of its IGNITE scorecard link to executive compensation. However, no evidence found that the company explicitly reports targets on which the remuneration depends.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company discloses some evidence of addressing conversion. However, this does not guarantee DCF-aligned practices. The company discloses its ambition to achieve 100% RSPO by 2025, but does not disclose a relevant certification model. No evidence found that the company has a commitment regarding the restoration of ecosystems. The company 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 has an opportunity to report progress against its scope 3 emissions targets.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

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 does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

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 is not reducing the production of hazardous substances. The company does not commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. It also does not report metrics on air pollutants, nor set time-bound targets to reduce them.

Water
While the company has a target to reduce water withdrawal, the target is intensity based and does not necessarily result in an absolute reduction of water withdrawal. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not report relevant information on water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

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

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company 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
The company has no described process to identify bribery and corruption risks in its operations. Although it states its approach to lobbying and political engagement, these statements are not considered formal policy commitments. There is also no requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with the company’s policies. The company has an opportunity to establish clear, publicly available policies on anti-bribery, anti-corruption, and lobbying that outline comprehensive compliance and engagement strategies.

Provide and promote decent work
The company records certain health and safety metrics but lacks comprehensive disclosure on this front, particularly regarding work-related fatalities and injuries. It commits to providing a living wage as defined by law but does not specify targets or broader commitments. Gender empowerment efforts are evidenced through specific initiatives, yet there is no broad public commitment to gender equality. The company has an opportunity to enhance disclosures and establish clearer commitments regarding the health and safety of workers, payment of a living wage, and gender equality.

Respect human rights
The company commits to prohibiting discrimination, child labour, and forced labour, respecting freedom of association and collective bargaining ‘in accordance with applicable laws’. It utilises third-party evaluations and technology solutions to monitor supply chain risks. However, it lacks a detailed description of the processes to identify human rights risks in its own operations and through business relationships. The company has an opportunity to detail its methods and results for determining its most salient human rights issues and to establish a transparent system to address these issues globally.