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Summary
Honda’s stronger performance this year across the Human Rights and Responsible Sourcing indicators has been offset by its poor performance across all of the Fossil-free and Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains subsections, further cementing its position as one of the biggest climate laggards of the industry.
Honda partially improved its performance against just two indicators across all four climate and environment subsections. Particularly notable is the fact that Honda continues to be one of the very few automakers that scores 0% in both the steel and aluminium decarbonization subsections. Given Japan’s important role in the global steelmaking industry, Honda should start taking action on this critical sustainability issue.
Regarding human rights and responsible sourcing, having performed very poorly last year, Honda has now taken some important strides forward on general human rights due diligence and responsible transition mineral sourcing, achieving score increases of 13 and 11 percentage points respectively in these areas. However, these advancements are counterbalanced by no progress whatsoever on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and only modest progress on workers’ rights. Key East Asian competitors, Geely and Kia, have now overtaken Honda on human rights.
Key Findings
- One of the few automakers that fails to disclose Scope 3 emissions for purchased goods and services or to have set a science-based target to reduce its supply chain emissions.
- The poorest performing company across all 18 automakers evaluated for the steel, aluminum and battery subsections, scoring 0% in the first two and just 1% against the battery sustainability indicators.
- Dreadful track record on climate lobbying continues to further drag down its already low score for the fossil-free and environmentally sustainable supply chains section.
- Has now disclosed slightly more information regarding its supplier human rights risk assessment process and monitoring activities, including some valuable statistical information. However, fundamentally undermines its chance to make more progress in this area by not expressly requiring suppliers to respect human rights across the board.
- Beyond stating a commitment to the responsible sourcing of certain transition minerals, and marginally improving on conflict minerals reporting, does not provide sufficient evidence of actual implementation and enforcement of responsible mineral sourcing practices.
- Performance on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights remains dire, with a score of 0%.
- Made marginal improvements on workers’ rights, although only scores above Nissan, BYD, GAC, and SAIC.
Score Breakdown
Fossil-Free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains
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Steel
Aluminum
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Our Vision
01 — Equitably
Respecting and advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples, workers, and local communities throughout the supply chain.
02 — Sustainably
Preserving and restoring environmental health and biodiversity across supply chains, while reducing primary resource demand through efficient resource use and increased recycled content.
03 — Fossil-free
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