Daito Trust Construction

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

GHG emissions
Daito Trust Construction has targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 55% before 2030. The company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company’s scope 3 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Although Daito Trust Construction discloses the process followed to identify key ESG material issues, it is unclear whether the process involves external stakeholders to meet double materiality. The company does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. The company does not report consistently against all its targets. While the company has put together a project team to identify material issues, no evidence could be found in the public domain that the company has people, teams, or committees in charge of implementing the sustainability strategy. The company does not report whether it assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
Daito Trust Construction does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Lobbying
Daito Trust Construction does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Impact and dependencies assessment
Daito Trust Construction has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Key areas and species
Daito Trust Construction does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
While Daito Trust Construction has established an Eco-Friendly Supply Chain Management Policy and aims to build a sustainable supply chain, the company is required to provide clear commitments regarding ecosystem conversion to score in this indicator. The company does not disclose some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company has the commitment to eliminate the destruction of forests caused by wood procurement. The company purchases all its wood from certified producers. The company does not disclose a commitment to restore ecosystems. The company does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding Daito Trust Construction’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.

Water
Daito Trust Construction does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Solid and air pollution
Daito Trust Construction does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

GHG emissions
No evidence that Daito Trust Construction reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions was found. The company does not report progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions target. No evidence that the company reduces its scope 3 emissions was found. The company does not report progress against its scope 3 emissions target.

Invasive species
Daito Trust Construction has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive species in its own operations.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Daito Trust Construction does not disclose a commitment to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
Daito Trust Construction does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

While Daito Trust Construction conducts a materiality/risk assessment to identify the main risks to the business, there is no evidence it has a process to identify which human rights are at risk of being impacted by it own operations, in specific locations or through specific activities, as part of a human rights due diligence process. The company has an opportunity to describe a process for assessing the human rights risks it has identified and to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. The company has an opportunity to disclose the stakeholders it engages with on human rights risks.

There is no evidence that Daito Trust Construction has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. The company has an opportunity to describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. The company has an opportunity to disclose the coverage of collective bargaining agreements. The company has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Daito Trust Construction has an opportunity to publish a global tax strategy and should assign responsibility for this strategy to an executive-level individual or body. The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption and its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption. The company does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document.