Tingyi

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.

Solid and air pollution
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. The company regularly reports on water pollution.

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

Act ethically
The company discloses a telephone number, mailing address and an email id accessible to its employees, suppliers and other relevant parties to raise bribery and corruption concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that it conducts on-site audits of suppliers to examine and evaluate both their factory environment and their level of occupational health and safety management. Furthermore, it also discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce, categorized by age group, as well as the proportion of women in each employee category.

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.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives and targets including climate and water. However, it could develop group-wide targets that address the most crucial aspects of its value chain. Furthermore, the company could enhance its remuneration policies for senior executives by incorporating performance criteria related to nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Finally, it could also disclose if its highest governance body possesses expertise in its most significant sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to minimize or ensure ecosystem conversion. It lacks transparency regarding its activities to minimize ecosystem conversion; while it does disclose some efforts to address conversion, these actions do not necessarily align with DCF standards. Additionally, the company does not set specific targets for achieving conversion-free supply chains within a specific timeframe. Restoration of ecosystems is also not a priority for the company, as there is no commitment to this aspect. Lastly, the company does not provide information about the details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or its suppliers.

GHG emissions
The company 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
The company aims to mitigate its environmental impact through sustainable procurement and has committed to reducing the negative effects of packaging and palm oil procurement on forests. However, the company has an opportunity to 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 within these areas.

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 has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence related to plastic use reduction and the uptake of sustainable packaging, including information on the amount of plastic waste it generates or the percentage that is properly disposed of. Additionally, it could start reporting on the emissions of harmful air pollutants and outline specific, time-bound targets for reducing air pollutants throughout its value chain.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to improve on its disclosure on 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 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 an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. It could also disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption.

Additionally, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specifying that it does not make political contributions and divulging its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
Although the company acknowledges worker safety, formalizing this in a public policy document would enhance commitment. Additionally, the company could turn its expectations of business relationships into a policy commitment for worker health and safety.

In terms of wages, an opportunity lies in sharing a time-bound target for implementing a living wage and detailing the process across operational regions. The company already sets expectations for supplier wages, yet room exists to make them more robust by mandating living wages and revealing supportive strategies.

Taking a more comprehensive approach, the company could transform its statement on gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document. It also has the opportunity to unveil time-bound targets for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. Currently, women constitute 11.11% of the board, with potential to reach at least 30%.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. However, it has an opportunity to place them in a formal policy document and extend this expectation to its suppliers. In terms of risk identification, the company has the chance to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts, covering both its own operations and its supply chain. Furthermore, it can outline a process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Finally, the company could establish a global system to address its salient human rights issues.