Impact and dependencies assessment
TANAKA Precious Metals 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
TANAKA Precious Metals 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 TANAKA Precious Metals’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.
Resource exploitation and circularity
TANAKA Precious Metals does not disclose its inputs, including its material footprint. While the company discloses its cyclical use rate, no further evidence that the company reports quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance (e.g. circular material productivity) could be found in the public domain. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
TANAKA Precious Metals demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. However, the company does not disclose any other relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.
Solid and air pollution
While TANAKA Precious Metals provides practices on managing industrial waste, no evidence the company disclosing measures on reducing the production of hazardous waste. While the company discloses the proportion of waste plastics to industrial waste emissions, it is unclear whether there is a reduction in plastic use and waste in its own operation. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report on 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
While TANAKA Precious Metals discloses its scope 1 and 2 emissions, the amount increased compared to the previous year. The company does not disclose any other greenhouse gas emissions, nor has it set a time-bound reduction target. The company must immediately set a reduction target aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree trajectory.
Invasive species
TANAKA Precious Metals has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.