Red Chamber Group

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the ecosystems area.

No leading practices were identified in the traceability area.

No leading practices were identified in the social responsibility area.

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Sustainability strategy
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to disclose a sustainability strategy and targets covering its most significant impacts and sustainability topics in relation to both its own operations and its value chain, including environmental, social and traceability issues.

Accountability for sustainability strategy
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Stakeholder engagement
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, beyond its materiality assessment.

Lobbying and advocacy
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to provide evidence of a commitment to sustainable fishing and aquaculture, set targets and report against those targets.

Ecosystem impacts of fisheries
Red Chamber Argentina is involved in a Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) aiming for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification. Red Chamber Group can significantly improve by disclosing a comprehensive strategy for addressing the ecoystems impacts of fisheries across its operations and supply chains.

Ecosystem impacts of aquaculture
Red Chamber Group does not disclose any information about how it addresses the impacts related to its aquaculture products such as antibiotics, medicine use, sustainable feed or animal welfare. For example, the company does not disclose a policy or target on the (prophylactic) use of antibiotics and/or growth promoting substances for its aquaculture supply chains. The company therefore has an opportunity to review the issue of antibiotics in its supply chain and develop a policy and targets to reduce the use of antibiotics classified as medically importance across all species and geographies.

Traceability systems and commitments for seafood products and aquaculture feed ingredients
Red Chamber Group does not disclose information about its traceability system. Therefore, Red Chamber Group has the opportunity to improve its sustainability performance by disclosing information about how it traces its seafood, including key data elements collected and the mechanisms used to verify the information along the supply chain.

Risk-based approach to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
Red Chamber Group does not disclose information about how it assesses and mitigates IUU fishing risks in its operations and supply chain.

Disclosure of the source of seafood products and marine feed ingredients
Red Chamber Group does not publicly disclose information about the source of its seafood products. Red Chamber Group could improve its performance by being more transparent about its sourcing. This includes disclosing information such as species, the geographic location where the seafood is caught or farmed, and the management status of the fishery or aquaculture operation.

Forced Labour
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve fishers’ income resilience.

Working and living conditions on board fishing vessels
There is no evidence that Red Chamber Group has a group-level approach to ensure decent working and living conditions on board fishing vessels. The company could improve its performance by having a policy in place and monitoring working and living conditions on board fishing vessels in its supply chain, disclosing the results of its monitoring, and demonstrating how it mitigates risks and implements improvements.

Respect human rights
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the human rights that the ILO has declared to be fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers. It could give a description of a process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors.  The company could also disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues by preventing, mitigating or remediating the latter.

Provide and promote decent work
Red Chamber Group has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain and it could provide evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards. Furthermore, the company could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. The company could also disclose how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Act ethically
Red Chamber Group 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 as well as a grievance mechanism which allows stakeholders to raise related complaints.  Furthermore, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document and specify that it does not make political contributions and to divulge its lobbying expenditures.