Disclosure of information under the TNFD
Kajima’s Environmental Initiatives
Kajima revisited its environmental vision in 2024 and revised it as Kajima Environmental Vision 2050plus. Based on the notion that carbon neutrality, the circular economy, and nature positivity are interconnected, create synergies, and have trade-offs, the Group’s goal and action plan have been recreated in the new vision.
In 2025, Kajima significantly revised the Kajima Biodiversity Guidelines (revised in July 2009), and renamed them as the Kajima Group Biodiversity Policy. Kajima recognizes that conserving and restoring biodiversity and natural capital are not issues the Kajima Group alone can solve, since they are both global and local issues. Moreover, these issues are also closely related to the increased severity of disasters due to climate change, waste problems, water resource problems, and other challenges.
Kajima pledges to grasp and properly manage the dependence and impact of all its business activities—including its supply chain—on biodiversity and natural capital as well as risks and opportunities associated with them. It will contribute to creating a sustainable society by proactively disclosing information and communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
TNFD Disclosure
In August 2023, Kajima endorsed the principles of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and joined the TNFD Forum. In accordance with the TNFD Beta Framework (v0.4), the Company ran a pilot project to identify and assess nature-related risks and opportunities and consider responses to them in Kajima’s direct operations as well as in the cement supply chain, which handles one of the key materials in construction.
The report, based on the final TNFD Recommendations (v1.0) released in September 2023, identifies the nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities of Kajima’s business and discloses metrics and goals resulting from examination of how to respond to them. This was done to reflect the response measures in the business strategy.
Summary of the TNFD Disclosure
The analysis confirmed that Kajima’s legal compliance and voluntary initiatives so far have made some progress in reducing dependencies and impacts on natural capital. Responses to high-impact, top-priority items found in the analysis (finance and reputation) are covered in goals and action plans of Kajima Environmental Vision 2050plus, and the validity of the responses has been confirmed. Kajima will continue to move its initiatives forward.
Meanwhile, Kajima has noted that some items require additional effort. Such items include those with a medium impact having second-highest priority, including risks related to raw-material procurement in the upstream value chain and measures against non-native species in direct operations. For these items, Kajima will set qualitative response measures in the report and, in the future, consider additional measures in detail and set goals as necessary.
Securing traceability in the upstream value chain in particular is an important point both in nature positivity and the circular economy. In the cross-departmental circular economy study group to be launched in the future, Kajima plans to consider specific responses to incorporate traceability into response measures in the TNFD disclosure.
Kajima also recognizes that the percentage of high-water-risk areas is high across the Kajima Group’s business areas. This matter has a relatively low priority for response but is drawing strong attention from third parties. Kajima therefore plans to consider additional measures.
TNFD Report (Japanese)
(PDF: 4.80MB)
*English version coming soon
