Climate Change Data

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