Impact and dependencies assessment
Kumagai Gumi 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
Kumagai Gumi 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 Kumagai Gumi’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. While the company discloses its practice of forest conservation projects, no evidence that the company discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or upstream business relationships could be found in the public domain. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.
Resource exploitation and circularity
While Kumagai Gumi discloses its principal materials, including the volume of steel rods, cement, wet concrete and steel frames, it should disclose more inputs as well as its recycled input materials. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
Kumagai Gumi does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.
Solid and air pollution
No evidence that Kumagai Gumi 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 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
Kumagai Gumi is reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. The company sets a target to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 25% by 2030 and by 100% by 2050 compared to the baseline year in 2019 and reports progress against the target. No evidence that the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.
No evidence that Kumagai Gumi reduces its scope 3 emissions was found. The company sets a target to reduce scope 3 emissions by 13% by 2030 and by 37% by 2050 compared to its baseline year 2019, 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
Kumagai Gumi has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.