Having positioned sustainability at the core of its management strategies, the Group will strive to create social value and to offer solutions to global environmental challenges by realizing sustained business growth alongside its stakeholders via various environmental and social measures. We have identified five materiality issues for achieving the goals of our new Long-term Vision for 2030: Realizing a comfortable, sustainable society while contributing to lives and culture.
We will promote sustainability management by establishing KPIs for each materiality issue and implementing priority measures that target them.

The Group has established a Sustainability Committee chaired by the President and Representative Director and is currently implementing Groupwide measures to address sustainability topics under the oversight of the Board of Directors. Individual sections and Group companies study and deploy specific measures to achieve the Groupwide policies, targets, and plans established by the Sustainability Committee. The Environmental Subcommittee, the Human Rights Subcommittee, and the Engagement Design Subcommittee have been established under the Sustainability Committee to consider issues that must be addressed Groupwide. Details of their activities are reported through the secretariat to the Sustainability Committee for deliberations and decision-making. Risks approved by the Sustainability Committee are shared with compliance promotion sections; particularly important business risks are reported to the Board of Directors. We seek to reflect the perspectives of multiple stakeholders by providing opportunities for discussions with outside experts as needed.

The Group’s materiality issues were identified through the following four steps. In Step 1, indicators and other materials from the leading ESG assessment agencies were referred to in identifying topics. In Steps 2 and 3, these were narrowed down and materiality issues proposed through dialogue with stakeholders. In Step 4, the final materiality issues were selected based on deliberations by the Sustainability Committee and Board of Directors.