Impact and dependencies assessment
PulteGroup 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
PulteGroup does not disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company does not disclose some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains nor time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company has also an opportunity to disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion. While the company seeks to reuse land that has been previously developed for residential or other commercial purposes, no evidence that the company shows qualitative evidence towards minimizing land, freshwater, and ocean conversion could be found in the public domain. Furthermore, 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
PulteGroup does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company does not disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. The company does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.
Water
No evidence that PulteGroup reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations nor reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company also does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. Furthermore, the company has a National Storm Water Quality Program but has not disclosed qualitative evidence of reducing water quality pressures. While PulteGroup states it monitors wastewater quality, no further evidence that the company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality could be found in the public domain. The company does not regularly report on water pollution and has an opportunity to disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company 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 PulteGroup is reducing the production of hazardous waste or plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants and has an opportunity to report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
PulteGroup does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company has a strong opportunity to set a scope 1 and 2 emissions target aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found. No evidence that the company reduces its scope 3 emissions was found. The company has also an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.
Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.
