Syngenta (PRIVATE.SYNGENTA)

Overall impact
C (58)

Commentary

Syngenta is an average overall performer. With a 'C' rating of 58.3 for overall impact (59th percentile compared to all companies), Syngenta ranks 7th out of 30 industry peers, behind CVR Partners, KWS SAAT SE & CO KGAA, Benson Hill and 3 others, and ahead of PI Industries, Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical, Ridley Corporation and 20 others. On top material causes for Syngenta's industry (Food), Syngenta performs well in No Poverty (95.7 score), Fair Labor Practices (95.6), Zero Hunger (96.3) and 4 other causes where it received an 'A' score and performs poorly in Child and Maternal Health (0.0 score), Accountable Institutions (34.1), Child and Maternal Health (8.0) and 5 other causes where it received a 'D' or 'F' score.
Screens
Advertising
Alcohol
Alcohol - responsible marketing
Animal treatment
Anti-abortion support
Anti-personnel mines
Antisemitism
Arctic drilling
Banned pesticides and chemicals
Biological and chemical weapons
Cannabis
Carbon emissions intensity
Child safety
Cluster munitions
Coal
Contraceptives
Controversial weapons
Deforestation - financing
Depleted uranium
Discrimination controversies
Electrical utility
Endangered wildlife
Environmental controversies
EU sanctions list
Factory farming
Fast food
Firearms
Food commodity derivatives
For-profit health care
Fossil fuel
Fur
Gambling
Genetic engineering
Health-related controversies
Human rights controversies
Human trafficking
ILO Conventions
Interest-based products
Interest-bearing debt
Interest-bearing securities
Iran
Land use and biodiversity
Military contracting
Misleading communication
Music
Myanmar
Non-sustainable palm oil
Norges Bank exclusion list
Northern Ireland (Macbride)
North Korea
No SBTI commitment
Nuclear
OECD Guidelines
Oil and gas
Opioid controversies
Oppressive governments
Palestinian human rights
Pharma controversies
Pork
Pornography
Predatory lending
Prison involvement
Privacy breaches
Pro-life
Russia
Single-use plastic
Stem cell research
Sudan
Sugar
Syria
Tar sands
Thermal coal
Tobacco
Tobacco - GICS
UK sanctions list
Undermining US elections
UN Global Compact
UN Guiding Principles
US OFAC sanctions list
Weapons
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Screens
Advertising
Alcohol
Alcohol - responsible marketing
Animal treatment
Anti-abortion support
Anti-personnel mines
Antisemitism
Arctic drilling
Banned pesticides and chemicals
Biological and chemical weapons
Cannabis
Carbon emissions intensity
Child safety
Cluster munitions
Coal
Contraceptives
Controversial weapons
Deforestation - financing
Depleted uranium
Discrimination controversies
Electrical utility
Endangered wildlife
Environmental controversies
EU sanctions list
Factory farming
Fast food
Firearms
Food commodity derivatives
For-profit health care
Fossil fuel
Fur
Gambling
Genetic engineering
Health-related controversies
Human rights controversies
Human trafficking
ILO Conventions
Interest-based products
Interest-bearing debt
Interest-bearing securities
Iran
Land use and biodiversity
Military contracting
Misleading communication
Music
Myanmar
Non-sustainable palm oil
Norges Bank exclusion list
Northern Ireland (Macbride)
North Korea
No SBTI commitment
Nuclear
OECD Guidelines
Oil and gas
Opioid controversies
Oppressive governments
Palestinian human rights
Pharma controversies
Pork
Pornography
Predatory lending
Prison involvement
Privacy breaches
Pro-life
Russia
Single-use plastic
Stem cell research
Sudan
Sugar
Syria
Tar sands
Thermal coal
Tobacco
Tobacco - GICS
UK sanctions list
Undermining US elections
UN Global Compact
UN Guiding Principles
US OFAC sanctions list
Weapons
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Company
Employees
28,000
Sector
Consumer Staples
Industry
Food Products
Sub-industry
Agricultural Products & Services
SASB industry
Chemicals
Headquarters
Switzerland
Share classes
PRIVATE.SYNGENTA
Description
Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company, engages in the crop protection, seeds, and lawn and garden markets worldwide. It discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets crop protection products, such as herbicides for corn, cereals, soybean, and rice; fungicides for corn, cereals, fruits, grapes, rice, soybean, and vegetables; insecticides for fruits, vegetables, and field crops; and seed care, primarily in corn, soybean, cereals, oilseeds, and cotton. The company is also investing in abiotic stress management and biocontrol solutions. In addition, it produces and markets seeds and plants, which are developed using genetics and related technologies; and offers approximately 200 product lines and approximately 5,000 varieties of its own proprietary genetics. Further, the company provides professional growers and consumers with flowers, turf and landscape, and professional pest management products through specialized distributors, dealers, and professional applicators, as well as directly to growers. Syngenta AG was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
Material causes
Ethos considers the following causes material for Syngenta, based on its industry sub-industry Agricultural Products & Services. Learn more about material causes in our methodology overview.

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