West Fraser Timber

Lobbying
West Fraser Timber discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

GHG emissions
The company has set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against its scope 1 and 2 targets. Additionally, the company reduces its scope 1 and 2 emissions, and its scope 1 and 2 targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Solid and air pollution
The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. The company regularly reports on water pollution.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company is committed to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company is dedicated to transparency in various aspects of its operations. It not only discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements but also provides insights into the gender diversity within its workforce by disclosing the proportion of women in each employee category. Additionally, the company promotes inclusivity by disclosing the racial or ethnic breakdown of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Moreover, the company’s commitment to diversity extends to its board of directors, as it proudly showcases this on its website. Out of its 11 board members, 5 are female, representing a strong 45.45% female representation on the board. These disclosures reflect the company’s dedication to fostering diversity and gender equality at all levels of its organization

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers. It also indicates that it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

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 no sustainability strategy with nature-related targets and does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company should reduce its scope 3 emissions and report progress against its scope 3 targets. Additionally, its scope 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its 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 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.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target, disclosing water withdrawals in water-stressed areas, and engaging with suppliers. It has an opportunity to set time-bound targets to reduce water pollution metrics. 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 disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights as set out in the relevant part(s) of the VGGT’s or the IFC Performance Standards nor does it require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

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 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, along with implementing a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related complaints. 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
The company could disclose quantitative information on the health and safety of its worker. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to expect its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers, and to showcase how it actively monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. To address fair labor practices, the company could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company could make a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, reinforcing its support for these important principles. To set clear objectives, the company should disclose time-bound targets related to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Additionally, it could disclose the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men in its total direct operations workforce.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting human rights recognized as fundamental rights at work by the ILO, 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.