GRI content summary
STANDARD DISCLOSURES | Page/where addressed | External assurance | ||
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Strategy and analysis | ||||
G4-1 Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organization (such as CEO, chair, or equivalent senior position) about the relevance of sustainability to the organization and the organization’s strategy for addressing sustainability | Message from the CEO | |||
G4-2 Description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities: focus on the organization’s key impacts on sustainability and effects on stakeholders | Message from the CEO | |||
Organizational profile | ||||
G4-3 Name of organization | Our company | |||
G4-4 Primary brands, products, and services | Our company | |||
G4-5 Location of organization's headquarters | Our company | |||
G4-6 Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries either with major operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report | Our company | |||
G4-7 Nature of ownership and legal form | Govenance | |||
G4-8 Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers and beneficiaries) | Market overview | |||
G4-9 Scale of organization | Our company | |||
G4-10 Total number of employees UNGC | Our company | |||
G4-11 Percentage of total employees covered by collective bargaining agreements UNGC | Our company | |||
G4-12 Description of organization's supply chain | 50% of our direct suppliers (raw materials, utilities and process inputs) and 95% of indirect suppliers (Capex and inventory) are local companies. The company seeks where possible to identify indirect suppliers located within the metropolitan area of São Paulo for reasons that include proximity, cost savings and fostering local economic development. The Procurement department does not currently have a documented local sourcing policy. | |||
G4-13 Significant changes during the reporting period regarding the organization’s size, structure, ownership, or its supply chain | 2016 headlines | |||
Organizational profile | ||||
G4-14 Whether and how the precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organization | The precautionary approach is addressed for every newly developed product | |||
G4-15 List externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles, or other initiatives to which the organization subscribes or which it endorses | We subscribe to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association’s (Abiquim) Responsible Care program (“Atuação Responsável”) | |||
G4-16 List memberships of associations (such as industry associations) and national or international advocacy organizations | Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim) | |||
Identified material aspects and boundaries | ||||
G4-17 List all entities included in the organization’s consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents | About this report | |||
G4-18 Explanation of the process for defining the report content and aspect boundaries | About this report | |||
G4-19 List of all material aspects identified in the process for defining report content | About this report | |||
G4-20 For each material aspect, report the aspect boundary within the organization | About this report | |||
G4-21 For each material aspect, report the aspect boundary outside the organization | About this report | |||
G4-22 Effect of any restatements of information provided in previous reports, and the reasons for such restatements | N/A | |||
G4-23 Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope and aspect boundaries | N/A | |||
Stakeholder engagement | ||||
G4-24 List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organization | About this report | |||
G4-25 Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage | About this report | |||
Stakeholder engagement | ||||
G4-26 The organization’s approach to stakeholder engagement, including frequency of engagement by type and by stakeholder group, and an indication of whether any of the engagement was undertaken specifically as part of the report preparation process | About this report | |||
G4-27 Key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement, and how the organization has responded to those key topics and concerns, including through its reporting. Report the stakeholder groups that raised each of the key topics and concerns | About this report | |||
Report profile | ||||
G4-28 Reporting period (such as fiscal or calendar year) for information provided | January 01, 2016 to December 31, 2016. | |||
G4-29 Date of most recent previous report (if any) | This is our first Annual and Sustainability Report | |||
G4-30 Reporting cycle (such as annual, biennial) | Annual, beginning with this edition | |||
G4-31 Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents | About this report | |||
G4-32 'In accordance' option the organization has chosen | About this report | |||
G4-33 Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report | Assurance will be sought for our reports beginning in 2017 | |||
Governance | ||||
G4-34 Governance structure of the organization, including committees of the highest governance body. Identify any committees responsible for decision-making on economic, environmental and social impacts | Governance | |||
Ethics and integrity | ||||
G4-56 The organization’s values, principles, standards and norms of behavior such as codes of conduct and codes of ethics | Our company |
SPECIFIC STANDARD DISCLOSURES | ||||
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Economic | ||||
Material aspects | DMA and disclosures | Page/where addressed | Omission | External assurance |
Economic performance UNGC | G4-DMA Management approach | Financial performance | ||
G4-EC4 Financial assistance received from government | Financial performance | |||
Market presence | G4-DMA Management approach | Our company | ||
G4-EC5 Ratio of standard entry level wage by gender compared to local minimum wage at significant locations of operation | Our company | |||
Economic | ||||
Indirect economic impacts | G4-DMA Management approach | Corporate social responsibility | ||
G4-EC8 Significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts | Corporate social responsibility | |||
Procurement practices | G4-DMA Management approach | |||
G4-EC9 Proportion of spending on locally-based suppliers at significant locations of operation | Nitro Quimica does not have a formal local sourcing policy. However, 50% of our direct suppliers (raw materials, utilities and process inputs) and 95% of indirect suppliers (Capex and inventory) are local companies preferably located within the metropolitan area of São Paulo for reasons that include proximity, cost savings and fostering local economic development. A more detailed supplier assessment will be performed in 2017. | |||
Environment UNGC | ||||
Materials | ||||
Water | G4-DMA Management approach | Social and environmental management | ||
G4-EN8 Total water withdrawal by source | Social and environmental management | |||
G4-EN10 Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused | Social and environmental management | |||
Emissions | G4-DMA Management approach | Social and environmental management | ||
G4-EN15 Direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (scope 1) | Social and environmental management | |||
G4-EN16 Energy indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (scope 2) | Social and environmental management | |||
Emissions | G4-EN17 Other indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (scope 3) | Social and environmental management | ||
G4-EN20 Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) | Some of our operational processes generate emissions regulated by the Montreal Protocol. This data will be reported in our next report. | |||
G4-EN21 NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions | Social and environmental management | |||
Effluents and waste | G4-DMA Management approach | Social and environmental management | ||
G4-EN22 Total water discharge by quality and destination | Social and environmental management | |||
G4-EN23 Total weight of waste by type and disposal method | Social and environmental management | |||
G4-EN24 Total number and volume of significant spills | In 2017 we will determine the threshold from which a spill is deemed significant and include this information in incident investigation forms. | |||
Effluents and waste | G4-EN25 Weight of transported, imported, exported or treated waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention (Annex I, II, III, and VIII) and percentage of transported waste shipped internationally | Social and environmental management | ||
Social – labor practices and decent work UNGC | ||||
Employment | G4-DMA Management approach | Our people | ||
G4-LA1 Total number and rates of new employee hires and employee turnover by age group, gender and region | Our people | |||
G4-LA2 Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by significant locations of operation | Our people | |||
Social – labor practices and decent work UNGC | ||||
Occupational health and safety | G4-DMA Management approach | Our people | ||
G4-LA6 Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and gender | Our people | |||
G4-LA7 Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation | Our people | |||
Training and education | G4-DMA Management approach | Our people | ||
G4-LA9 Average hours of training per year per employee by gender, and by employee category | Our people | |||
G4-LA11 Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews, by gender and by employee category | Our people | |||
Labor practices grievance mechanisms | G4-DMA Management approach | Our people | ||
G4-LA16 Number of grievances about labor practices filed, addressed, and resolved through formal grievance mechanisms | Our people | |||
Category: social – society | ||||
Local communities UNGC | G4-DMA Management approach | Risks and safety | ||
G4-SO2 Operations with significant actual or potential negative impacts on local communities | Risks and safety | |||
Social – product responsibility | ||||
Customer health and safety | G4-DMA Management approach | Risks and safety | ||
G4-PR1 Percentage of significant product and service categories for which health and safety impacts are assessed for improvement | Risks and safety | |||
G4-PR2 Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning the health and safety impacts of products and services during their life cycle, by type of outcomes | Risks and safety |