Ecosystem conversion and restoration
UPL does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion, or to ensure zero conversion. The company does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion, or to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. 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
UPL should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets. 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
UPL mentions that it undertakes risk assessments to gauge its operational impact on biodiversity. Despite this, the methodology or results of these assessments aren’t publicly disclosed. Moreover, the company remains silent on evaluating its impacts or dependencies on nature within its own operations and 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
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 UPL’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
UPL has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence related to plastic reduction and the use of sustainable packaging, including information on the amount of plastic waste it generates and the percentage directed to disposal. While the company discloses its SOx and NOx emissions for some of its operations, it has an opportunity to report this information at the group level and also set specific, time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
Water
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in water withdrawal, and set targets for water withdrawal across its operations. The company does not report relevant information on water pollution. The company has an opportunity to disclose relevant information on water withdrawal. 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.