Total Score

11%

Fossil-free & Environment

9%

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

13%

Fossil-free & Environment

9%

general

22%

steel

8%

Aluminum

6%

batteries

4%

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

13%

general

32%

workers Rights

13%

Indigenous Rights

0%

minerals Rights

8%

Hyundai

Although Hyundai has significantly increased its EV production, it has a long journey ahead to achieve an equitable, sustainable, and fossil-free supply chain. Hyundai performs poorly on both climate and environment, and human rights, receiving just 11% overall.

Ranking

10 of 18

EV sales 2022

316,900

Source: EV-Volumes; Hyundai sales data is combined with Kia

Key Takeaways

  • Discloses Scope 3 emissions and set a 1.5 degree-aligned, science-based target for carbon neutrality by 2045

  • Little evidence of concrete steps to reduce the emissions and environmental impacts of the steel, aluminum, and batteries in its vehicles, though it has begun some “low carbon” steel innovations with Hyundai Steel

  • One of the worst scores on auto industry climate lobbying from InfluenceMap; only Toyota scores lower

  • Some concrete human rights commitments, but has taken few measures to identify, prevent, mitigate, and remedy human rights abuses in its supply chain

  • Very low score on responsible sourcing of transition minerals and scores 0% on Indigenous Peoples’ rights

  • Has some workers’ rights policies, but they’re clearly deficient: reports have exposed Hyundai for child labor at suppliers and one US subsidiary, major workplace safety violations in South Korea, and it’s facing a racial discrimination lawsuit in the US

Score Breakdown

Fossil-free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains

Disclosure

50%

Target-setting and progress

33%

Use of supply chain levers

0%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

17%

Use of supply chain levers

5%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

17%

Use of supply chain levers

0%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

0%

Use of supply chain levers

9%

* InfluenceMap scores were applied as a multiplier to the total Fossil-free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains score. See methodology for further details.

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

commit

83%

identify

17%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

38%

remedy

12%

commit

33%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

10%

remedy

0%

commit

0%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

0%

remedy

0%

commit

50%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

18%

remedy

0%

Latest Supply Chain News On Hyundai

07.03.2023

Hyundai Steel produces low-carbon, high-strength steel plates

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07.03.2023

Pollution, child labour, workers’ rights violations and new coal-fired power plants in Hyundai-Kia’s supply chains

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Equitably

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