Impact and dependencies assessment
While Sumitomo Metal Mining discloses its annual environmental monitoring surveys, no evidence that the company discloses the results has been found in the public domain. The company does not disclose any assessment of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, in its supply chain. The company does not disclose any assessment of its dependencies on nature within its own operations and its upstream business relationships.
Key areas and species
Sumitomo Metal Mining discloses the locations that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity within its own operation, but not those of its suppliers. The company does not disclose species populations existing in or adjacent to its own locations and its suppliers. The company does not disclose the status according to national and international conservation lists of species identified in its own locations.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Sumitomo Metal Mining does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company does not disclose any activities or time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose a commitment or aby activities to minimise ecosystem conversion. The company discloses the amount of land developed or rehabilitated in areas affected by its operations every year but does not disclose a commitment to restore ecosystems.
Resource exploitation and circularity
Sumitomo Metal Mining does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
No evidence that Sumitomo Metal Mining reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. While the company mentions optimizing water use in its vision for 2030, no evidence the company sets quantitative targets on the reduction of water withdrawal. The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas through WWF Water Risk Filter and reports no areas of high water stress in its own operations. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.
Sumitomo Metal Mining does not report a decrease in water pollution. The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company discloses its COD and BOD pollutant loads as water quality parameters. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company does not disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.
Solid and air pollution
No evidence that Sumitomo Metal Mining is reducing the production of hazardous waste was found. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal.
Sumitomo Metal Mining reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company reports its SOx, NOx, and soot and dust emissions as its air quality parameters every year. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
Sumitomo Metal Mining is reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. While the company sets goals to achieve GHG emissions below the level of 2013 by 2030 and net zero GHG emissions by 2050 or sooner, it does not explicitly specify that this will include their scope 1 and 2 emissions and that it aligns with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
No evidence that Sumitomo Metal Mining reduces its scope 3 emissions was found. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company does not report progress against its scope 3 emissions target. No evidence that the company’s scope 3 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.
Invasive species
Sumitomo Metal Mining has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.