Impact and dependencies assessment
Goodyear Tire & Rubber has not assessed its impacts on nature or how it is reliant on it. It has the opportunity to start such an assessment along its entire value chain, focusing on quantifying its impacts and reliance on ecosystem services.
Key areas and species
Goodyear Tire & Rubber 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
Goodyear Tire & Rubber does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. While the company discloses efforts to source conversion free rubber through its participation in the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), no evidence that its efforts are aligned with a commitment to eliminate land conversion from its value chain could be found in the public domain. Goodyear Tire & Rubber does not have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion. It does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion. Goodyear Tire & Rubber is not committed to restoring 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
While Goodyear Tire & Rubber discloses some information on its inputs and material footprint, it should provide more detailed information on each material used. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. Goodyear Tire & Rubber discloses its compliance to prevent soil contamination, however, no evidence that the company actively improves soil health and/or increases agrobiodiversity in its production and/or sourcing practices could be found in the public domain. The company does not have a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.
Water
Goodyear Tire & Rubber demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, and reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Goodyear Tire & Rubber does not report a decrease in water pollution, nor discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company does not regularly report on water pollution, nor has targets to reduce water pollution. Goodyear Tire & Rubber does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water, nor 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
Goodyear Tire & Rubber is not reducing the production of hazardous waste, plastic use and waste in its own operations. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. It does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. Goodyear Tire & Rubber does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
Goodyear Tire & Rubber increased its total GHG emissions in 2021 compared to 2020. While the company set the goal to reach net-zero scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, no data could be found in the public domain on more specific target objectives (reduction percentages on the short term). The company is not reducing its scope 3 emissions, and does not have a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.
Invasive species
Goodyear Tire & Rubber has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.