How does your organization determine and implement the necessary actions in response to actual or potential negative impacts on affected communities? Please explain your process for identifying appropriate actions, your approach to responding to material negative impacts—including those related to land acquisition, planning, construction, operations, or closures, as well as any wider collaborative efforts—and how you ensure that remedy processes are available and effective.
CSRD
This indicator requires you to disclose:
Identification of Necessary Actions:
Describe the processes your organization uses to determine what actions are needed and appropriate in response to a particular actual or potential negative impact on affected communities.
Approach to Addressing Material Negative Impacts:
Explain your organization’s approach to taking action on specific material negative impacts, including:
Land acquisition practices.
Planning and construction activities.
Operations and closure of sites or projects.
Engagement in industry-wide or collaborative actions with other relevant parties to address systemic impacts.
Ensuring Effective Remedy:
Describe how your organization ensures that processes to provide or enable remedy for material negative impacts are:
Available to affected communities.
Effectively implemented, leading to meaningful outcomes.
Monitored for effectiveness, including stakeholder feedback and impact assessments.
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S3-4 - Taking action on material impacts on affected communities, and approaches to managing material risks and pursuing material opportunities related to affected communities, and effectiveness of those actions
- What actions have you taken, planned, or are underway to prevent or mitigate material negative impacts on affected communities, and how have you provided or enabled remedy for actual material impacts? Additionally, please describe any initiatives aimed at delivering positive impacts and explain how you track and assess the effectiveness of these actions and initiatives.
- How does your organization address material risks and opportunities related to affected communities? Please describe the actions planned or underway to mitigate risks—including how you track their effectiveness—and the actions planned or underway to pursue opportunities in this context.
- How does your organization ensure that its own practices avoid causing or contributing to material negative impacts on affected communities? In your answer, please describe your approach in areas such as planning, land acquisition and exploitation, finance, extraction or production of raw materials, natural resource use, and environmental impact management. Additionally, explain how you address tensions between mitigating negative impacts and other business pressures.
- Have any severe human rights issues or incidents connected to affected communities been reported? If so, please provide the relevant details.
- If you evaluate the effectiveness of your actions by setting targets, how do you track progress against these targets in accordance with ESRS 2 MDR-T? Please describe your target-setting process, tracking methods, and performance indicators used to assess the effectiveness of your policies and actions.
- What resources does your organization allocate to manage its material impacts, and how do these resources support effective impact management (e.g., financial, human, technological)?