Impact and dependencies assessment
The company 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
The company 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
The company does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion. While Nucor Corporation has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion, it does not disclose activities to minimise ecosystem conversion. The company also does not disclose a commitment to restore ecosystems nor details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.
Resource exploitation and circularity
Nucor Corporation does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. It does not disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices nor a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.
Water
No evidence that the company reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. Nucor Corporation has a strong opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Nucor Corporation does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality nor does it regularly report on water pollution. The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution. Furthermore, it 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
No evidence that Nucor Corporation reduces the production of hazardous substances was found. While the company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants, it does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
Nucor Corporation has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. and reports progress against it. However, no evidence that the company’s scope 1 and 2 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found. The company is also reducing its scope 3 emissions but does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions.
Invasive species
No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species (IAS) in its own operations. No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of IAS in its value chain.