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Summary
Renault made modest improvements this year, increasing its overall score by four percentage points and climbing up the rankings from ninth to eighth position.
Renault performed better in the fossil free and environmentally sustainable supply chains section, coming in 6th place. Notably, the company achieved the second largest score increase in both the General and Battery subsections, primarily due to disclosing additional requirements and incentives for its suppliers to reduce their GHG emissions and for making further progress on battery recycling. Renault should build on this progress by demonstrating similar leadership on steel and aluminum circularity.
On human rights, Renault performed mediocrely this year, with some discrete improvements standing in contrast to no progress on transition minerals or workers’ rights. With an overall achievement on human rights of only 23%, Renault remains the worst performing European company in this area.
Despite an overall poor performance, it is important to recognise Renault’s score improvement of 6 percentage points on Indigenous Peoples’ rights. While not substantial, the poor record on Indigenous Peoples’ rights means that this improvement is still the second largest in this area across all 18 companies.
l achievement on human rights of only 23%, Renault remains the worst performing European company in this area, scoring 22 percentage points less than Mercedes, the top European performer.
Despite an overall poor performance, it is important to recognise Renault’s score improvement of 6 percentage points on Indigenous Peoples’ rights. While not substantial, the poor record on Indigenous Peoples’ rights across the board means that this improvement is still the second largest in this area across all 18 companies.
Key Findings
- Has a target of achieving carbon neutrality in Europe by 2040 and worldwide by 2050. Has also set a carbon emission reduction target for its parts and materials supply chain (30% reduction by 2030 compared with 2019) and a specific target for its batteries (35% reduction by 2030 compared with 2019). However, has not set similarly disaggregated targets for its steel and aluminium supply chains.
- Has risen from fourth to second place in the fossil free and environmentally sustainable batteries subsection. Has set a 2030 goal to recycle and reuse 80% of cobalt, lithium and nickel from end-of-life batteries and has established multiple partnerships to source low-carbon and more sustainable battery minerals.
- Continues to score poorly in the steel and aluminum subsections, although does disclose the quantity of recycled steel and aluminum used for some specific elements in its production cycle.
- Has now issued a standalone human rights policy and has improved the level of detail it provides on certain aspects of its human rights due diligence process, such as risk identification and monitoring practices, but fails to provide statistical information to demonstrate the scale of these efforts.
- Has established a standalone responsible minerals sourcing policy, but discloses limited information on processes to operationalise this policy and little to no evidence of actual implementation.
- Became one of the few companies to commit to respecting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and their right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent in its human rights policy, although these commitments have not yet been translated into express requirements on suppliers.
- Robust commitments and practices on workers’ rights overall, but has yet to commit to a living wage for its supply chain and must improve participation of workers in key due diligence processes.
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