Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion, or to ensure zero conversion, nor does it have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion.
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
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company has taken steps to establish an environmental management system and its subsidiary PCSC has a Biodiversity Risk Assessment Procedure, it still has an opportunity to extend these disclosures to the parent level, specifically focusing on assessing its impacts on nature within its own operations. Similarly, there is room to enhance transparency by assessing and disclosing the company’s impacts on nature in its supply chain. Additionally, the company could benefit from identifying and disclosing its dependencies on nature, both within its own operations and 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 the company’s subsidiary PCSC has completed an inventory of its stores in sensitive and non-sensitive areas, including those in national parks or designated conservation areas, the company itself has not disclosed similar information. It could further its efforts by disclosing locations in or adjacent to biodiversity-sensitive areas within its own operations. The company also has an opportunity to be transparent about the locations of its suppliers that are in or near biodiversity-important areas, to disclose species adjacent to supplier locations, and to identify species according to national and international conservation 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 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 and waste. It has an opportunity to set and disclose time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. The company could also report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal at group level.
Water
The company reports an increase in its water withdrawal. While the company has targets to reduce water withdrawal, it lacks disclosure at the parent level. The company also does not show evidence of engaging with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal, or set targets related to water pollutants. The company has an opportunity to disclose relevant information on water withdrawal. The company has an opportunity to report water pollution metrics and set targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains. The company does not disclose 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.
