Crucial Sustainability Issues

To contribute to the realization of our long term direction, 2030 Vision, we identified our Crucial Sustainability Issues (materiality) and incorporates them into our Medium-Term Management Plan to work toward their resolution. Through this approach, we aim to achieve both economic value and contributions to the environment, society, and employees, thereby contributing to the realization of a sustainable society.

Process for Identifying Crucial Sustainability Issues

We identify the key issues that external stakeholders expect from us, as well as th e key issues that we consider important internally. By finding the intersections between these issues, we identify o ur own Crucial Sustainability Issues.

1.External stakeholder expectations analysis

Conceive the requirements of the ESG rating agency as the sustainability initiatives that external stakeholders expect from our company, and quantify their importance

2.Internal key issues analysis

Select the initiatives for sustainability that is considered to be important internally, and quantify their importance

3.Crucial Sustainability Issues Matrix

  • Plot the Crucial Sustainability Issues on the coordinate axis of (1) and (2)
  • Create an evaluation matrix to identify our Crucial Sustainability Issues

Crucial Sustainability Issues Matrix

Identify 21 Crucial Sustainability Issues based on the importance for our stakeholders and the company and categorize them into four groups