Absolute results are low overall and Peabody Energy’s results are largely limited to its commitments. While the company has made a formal commitment to ensure safe and healthy working conditions, the company’s other commitments – on preventing bribery and corruption, adopting a lifecycle approach, and managing its environmental impacts systematically – could be strengthened. For example, its environmental policy does not incorporate the mitigation hierarchy approach.

Peabody Energy ranks 21st among the 38 companies on its mine-site-level results, with an average score of only 9% in the mine-site assessment.

In the company-wide assessment, Peabody Energy’s overall results are below the average across all 38 companies in all six thematic areas. The company shows a lack of evidence particularly in Community Wellbeing. For example, while Peabody Energy has made a commitment to respect human rights, it shows no evidence of having conducted any human rights due diligence processes, or tracking its performance on managing human rights issues. In addition, the company shows no evidence of developing local procurement opportunities and could strengthen its disclosure of information on the location and safety of its tailings storage facilities.

Moreover, none of the five Peabody Energy mine sites included in the mine-site assessment show any relevant evidence on four of the ten issues covered: local employment, local procurement, worker grievances and water quantity.