Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environment
• Labor & Human Rights
• Ethics
• Sustainable Procurement

Environmental Achievements

• ISO 14001 certified
• Other actions to ensure safe management of hazardous substances
• Energy and/or carbon audit
• Improvement of energy efficiency through technology or equipment upgrades
• Purchase and/or generation of renewable energy
• Reduction of the use or emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases (e.g. HFCs, PFCs, SF6)
• Actions for labeling, storing, handling and transporting hazardous substances
• Environmental emergency measures in place
• Specialized treatment and safe disposal of hazardous substances
• Actions or training to raise employee awareness on waste reduction & sorting
• Company-specific emergency preparedness and response procedure regarding customer health and safety
• Wastewater quality assessment
• Use of recovered input materials
• Reduction of internal wastes through material reuse, recovery or repurpose

Social Achievements

• Employee satisfaction survey
• Grievance mechanism on discrimination and/or harassment issues
• Health care coverage of employees in place
• Provision of skills development training
• Collective bargaining agreement on working conditions
• Collective bargaining agreement on diversity, discrimination and/or harassment
• Collective bargaining agreement on career management & training
• Employee representatives or employee representative body (e.g. works council)
• Process in place to prevent the retention of employee identification documents
• Employee health and safety emergency action plan
• Equipment safety inspections or audits
• Training of employees on health and safety risks and best working practices
• Regular assessment of individual performance
• Collective bargaining agreement on employees’ health & safety
• Employee health & safety risk assessment
• Regular employee health check-up
• Complaints procedure in place for employees to report on occupational health and safety issues
• Actions in place to ensure health and safety of non-employee workers and other contracted workers on premises

Governance Achievements

• Policies on corruption
• Disciplinary sanctions to deal with policy violations
• Policy on information security
• Policy on conflict of interest
• Dedicated responsibility for ethics issues
• Specific approval procedure for sensitive transactions (e.g. gifts, travel)
• Whistleblower procedure for stakeholders to report information security concerns
• Whistleblower procedure for stakeholders to report corruption and bribery
• Measures for gaining stakeholder consent regarding the processing, sharing and retention of confidential information

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Insufficient reporting on environmental issues
• Insufficient reporting on labor and human rights issues
• Insufficient reporting on sustainable procurement issues
• No conclusive documentation regarding corruption risk assessments
• No conclusive documentation regarding information security risk assessments
• No conclusive documentation on awareness training to prevent corruption and bribery
• No information on actions regarding environmental impacts from product or packaging end-of-life
• No information on actions regarding environmental impacts from product use
• No conclusive information on endorsement of external initiatives or principles on environmental issues
• No conclusive information on endorsement of external initiatives or principles on labor and human rights issues
• No conclusive information on endorsement of external initiatives or principles on ethics issues
• Claims endorsement of specific international or industry sector initiatives on conflict minerals issues, but information could not be verified
• No quantitative target on labor and human rights issues
• Declares that no commitment or review has been conducted regarding payment of living wage
• No information on reporting on workplace diversity
• Declares reporting on number of recordable work-related accidents, but no supporting documentation available
• No information on average hours of training per employee
• No information on reporting on ratio of the annual total compensation of the highest paid individual, to the median annual total compensation for all employees
• No information on reporting on total amount of water recycled and reused
• No information on reporting on total weight of waste recovered
• No information on the percentage of WEEE collected out of total EEE placed on the market
• No conclusive documentation on on-site audits of suppliers on environmental or social issues
• No conclusive documentation on sustainability risk analysis (i.e. prior to supplier assessments or audits)
• No conclusive documentation on the training of buyers on social and environmental issues within the supply chain
• No conclusive documentation on supplier sustainability code of conduct in place
• Inconclusive documentation for policies on customer health & safety
• Inconclusive documentation for policies on product use
• Inconclusive documentation for policies on product end-of-life
• Inconclusive documentation for policies on fraud
• No conclusive documentation on audits of control procedures to prevent corruption
• No conclusive documentation regarding an anti-corruption due diligence program on third parties
• Basic environmental policies: lacks details on specific issues

Mitigation Strategies

• ISO 45001 certification is in progress

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Integration of social or environmental clauses into supplier contracts
• Regular supplier assessment (e.g. questionnaire) on environmental or social practices
• Formal assessment of suppliers' progress with regards to REACH requirements
• Selected suppliers required to fill Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT)/other customized conflict mineral-related questionnaire

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities