Kajima Corporation

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

No leading practices were identified for the company in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability

Kajima Corporation discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. While the company discloses some sustainability targets such as GHG emissions and reports consistently against the targets, no evidence that the company has group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain based on the SBTN Sectoral Materiality Tool such as non-GHG air pollutants, water use, and soil pollutants.

Although Kajima Corporation discloses the President is responsible for the environmental strategy, it is unclear with the person responsible for the social side of the strategy. Although the company discloses the Board of Directors is responsible for the decision-making and oversight of environmental strategy, it is unclear with the person responsible for the decision-making and oversight of the social side of the strategy. Although the company discloses that the performance-linked remuneration covers ESG components, it is unclear whether the targets include nature and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement

Kajima Corporation discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities. The company discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups.

Lobbying

Kajima Corporation 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

Kajima Corporation 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

Kajima Corporation 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

No evidence was found regarding Kajima Corporation’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. While the company discloses the implementation of the Biodiversity Action Plan to restore the ecosystem, it is unclear with the details and outcome of such plan. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Resource exploitation and circularity

While Kajima Corporation discloses its material flow in construction sites and offices with clear input and output, it should disclose its main construction materials in more detail. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. While the company provides practices on soil contamination investigations, no further evidence on the actions or measures taken to improve soil health. The company does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water

While Kajima Corporation discloses its water consumption, the amount increases compared to the previous year. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

While Kajima Corporation discloses its wastewater discharge, it is unclear whether the water quality pressures reduces compared to the previous year. The company discloses its process of managing and monitoring water discharge quality, especially in water-stressed areas. The company does not regularly report on water pollution. 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 Kajima Corporation 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. The company reports regularly on NOX and SOX emissions as its air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions

No evidence that Kajima Corporation reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions was found. While the company sets a target to achieve carbon neutrality for its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, it does not specify that this will include absolute reductions in their scope 1 and 2 emissions. No evidence that the company reports progress against the target and that the target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

No evidence that Kajima Corporation reduces its scope 3 emissions was found. The company sets a target to reduce scope 3 emissions by at least 80% by 2050 compared to the baseline year in 2013, but no evidence that the company reports progress against the target and that the target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species

Kajima Corporation has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

Kajima Corporation 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

Kajima Corporation does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

While Kajima Corporation suggests that it identifies human rights risks and impacts as part of its human rights due diligence process in its business activities, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts through its business relationships. 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.

While Kajima Corporation discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

Kajima Corporation has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. While the company states that it endeavour to pay living wages that enable employees to maintain wholesome and cultured lifestyles, it 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. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. While the company states that it expects its suppliers to pay wages that are sufficient for workers and their families to fulfil their basic needs, it has an opportunity to disclose how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.

No evidence that Kajima Corporation discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements was found. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to those.

Kajima Corporation discloses a global tax strategy. 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.