Willis Towers Watson
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, July-December 2023)
Reporting Period: 2019
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Period: 2020
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- The COVID-19 pandemic caused simultaneous aviation demand and supply-side shocks, impacting global airline traffic and revenue.
Mitigation Strategies
- Government intervention and stimulus packages (approximately $7 trillion globally) were implemented to support the aviation sector.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Period: 2021
Environmental Metrics
Total Carbon Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 1 Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 2 Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 3 Emissions:Not disclosed
Renewable Energy Share:Not disclosed
Total Energy Consumption:Not disclosed
Water Consumption:Not disclosed
Waste Generated:Not disclosed
Carbon Intensity:Not disclosed
ESG Focus Areas
- Climate Change
- Supply Chain Sustainability
- Executive Compensation Alignment with ESG
Environmental Achievements
- Some major FMCG companies are taking responsibility for their supply chains by helping suppliers enhance energy efficiency, adopting soil and water management practices and prioritizing zero-deforestation.
Social Achievements
- Not disclosed
Governance Achievements
- Not disclosed
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Not disclosed
Medium-term Goals:
- Not disclosed
Short-term Goals:
- Not disclosed
Environmental Challenges
- Supply chain disruptions due to climate events (hurricanes, flooding, fires), lack of formal requirements to reduce emissions for FMCG supply chains, disconnect between company-level climate change strategies and executive compensation.
- Consumer dilemma: balancing affordability with environmentally friendly products.
- Difficulty in selecting meaningful metrics for executive compensation that accurately reflect climate change efforts without diluting financial metrics.
Mitigation Strategies
- Some major FMCG companies are helping suppliers enhance energy efficiency, adopting soil and water management practices and prioritizing zero-deforestation.
- Shifting aspects of portfolios to offer environmentally produced and packaged products while maintaining market share.
- Unilever's example of using a Sustainability Progress Index in executive compensation.
Supply Chain Management
Supplier Audits: Not disclosed
Responsible Procurement
- Helping suppliers enhance energy efficiency, adopting soil and water management practices and prioritizing zero-deforestation.
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Hurricanes, flooding, fires
Transition Risks
- Regulatory changes, market shifts
Opportunities
- Development of energy-efficient products, plant-based alternatives
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: Science Based Targets Initiative
Certifications: Null
Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Not disclosed
Not disclosed
Sustainable Products & Innovation
- Plant-based meats
Awards & Recognition
- Not disclosed
Reporting Period: 2023
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Modern Slavery
- Human Rights
- ESG
Social Achievements
- Annual training on modern slavery delivered to all colleagues in March 2023.
- Resumed site visits of Mumbai operations in FY23.
Governance Achievements
- Established a cross-functional Modern Slavery Risk Management (MSRM) team.
- Implemented a Supplier Modern Slavery Risk Management Procedure.
- Incorporated modern slavery enquiries into tender packs for prospective suppliers.
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Develop a multi-year strategy and implementation plan on human rights and modern slavery.
Medium-term Goals:
- Review policies, standards and procedures to embed human rights and modern slavery due diligence more comprehensively.
- Collaborate with NGOs and other business and human rights networks.
Short-term Goals:
- Uplift supplier questionnaires to better identify risk.
- Strengthen supplier engagement around modern slavery.
Environmental Challenges
- Risk of modern slavery in supply chains, particularly in cleaning and security services and technology hardware sourcing.
- Difficulty in detecting modern slavery hidden deep within complex supply chains.
Mitigation Strategies
- Engaged an external human rights advisor to conduct a high-level review of modern slavery risk.
- Implemented a Supplier Modern Slavery Risk Management Procedure with risk assessments and corrective action plans.
- Used Modern Slavery Questionnaires for new suppliers.
- Collaborated with property managers to review controls around vulnerable workers (cleaners).
- Implemented a Whistleblowing Policy for reporting incidents of modern slavery.
Supply Chain Management
Supplier Audits: 30 new suppliers onboarded in FY23
Responsible Procurement
- WTW Supplier Risk Management Framework
- WTW Supplier Modern Slavery Risk Management Procedure
- Inclusion of modern slavery enquiries in tender packs and supplier agreements.
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth), UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Target 8.7
Taking action to eradicate forced labour and end modern slavery.
Reporting Period: July-December 2023
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Climate Change
- Resilience
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Record-breaking heatwaves and exceptional lightning strikes leading to wildfires.
- Aging infrastructure vulnerability to extreme weather events.
- Increased frequency of pluvial flooding in urban areas.
- Unusually high sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Panama Canal drought due to low freshwater levels.
- Record-breaking decline in Antarctic sea ice.
Mitigation Strategies
- Downward counterfactual analysis to better prepare for future events.
- Implementing resilient urban design concepts (sponge cities).
- Utilizing high-resolution flood modeling tools.
- Enhancing early warning systems.
- Ecological restoration and proactive land management.
- Community-focused recovery strategies.
- Advanced natural hazard modeling tools.
- Building more dams to supplement Lake Gatún.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather
- Flooding
- Droughts
- Wildfires
- Heatwaves
- Sea level rise