Involvement with SDGs

Selected Seven Focus Goals to Promote

The Ryoden Corporation Group seeks to contribute to the achievement of a sustainable society through environment, security and safety, so we do not exaggerate when we say that our SDGs-driven initiatives underpin the very foundation of our business activities. The Group has selected seven goals to focus on most earnestly and we are currently working to solve various social issues in ways that intimately link those goals and our business activities.

The SDGs clarify specific social issues, and, as such, they indicate the exact areas that we should be focusing on in our entire Group business activities or the direction we should be taking. The Ryoden Group’s Management Philosophy and Guidelines for Action agenda often coincide with the SDGs. We would even say that the activities designed to solve issues under the SDGs framework are often the very business activities that we are also striving to attain. We consider the SDGs to be an important factor in the sustainable development of our business activities, so we constantly strive to deepen the relationship between our business activities and the SDGs in order to help solve social issues.

We established our SDGs Promotion Committee to reflect SDGs initiatives in our Group strategy and management and to pursue social value and economic value in tandem. The Committee, which is chaired by the director in charge of supervising environmental and quality-related areas and comprises representatives from each business division, works closely with the Executive Committee when promoting activities.

In order to further clarify our response to solving social issues, we selected seven SDGs that are the most important and relevant to Ryoden Group business activities. We considered a comprehensive range of factors when selecting those goals, including the degree of importance in relation to our business activities, the focus areas of our medium-term management plan, and the perspectives of various stakeholders.

All seven of the SDGs that we selected are highly important issues both to society and to our Group business activities. We believe that aiming to achieve these goals will enable us to better help realize a sustainable society and achieve further growth as a company.

Communication is being promoted at each stage in order to permeate the SDGs activities.