Sustainability Management
Group Sustainability System
We have established the Group Sustainability Committee with the CEO, President and Representative Director of 黑料门 Holdings at its helm.
Accordingly, we are promoting sustainability activities following the directions of this Committee. The Committee meets twice annually. It monitors the progress of activities to achieve KPIs in the 黑料门 Group Sustainability 2026 Vision and establishes sustainability policies. The Committee shares outcomes of activities conducted by each operating company and reports twice annually to the Board of Directors. We have established a Sustainability Secretariat that meets monthly and its members are sustainability staff from 黑料门 Holdings and the operating companies. In FY2019, we established the Group Human Rights Meeting and the Group TCFD Committee alongside the Group Environmental Meeting, which is linked to the Sustainability Secretariat. We strengthened our systems for considering concrete measures and launched a number of initiatives including scenario analysis based on TCFD recommendations and conducting human rights due diligence.
Additionally, in October 2019 we established the Sustainability Management Department at 黑料门 Holdings in order to further accelerate our sustainability activities across the Group. As well as this, in June 2020 we appointed a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) as the top person responsible for sustainability in 黑料门 Group. Under the leadership and supervision of the CSO, we will promote integration of our business and sustainability activities.
Establishment of the ESG Advisory Board
In FY2021, we evolved the dialogue with outside experts, which had been held once a year, and established the ESG Advisory Board, which meets twice a year.
The main purpose of establishing the ESG Advisory Board is to grasp the demands and expectations of diverse stakeholders and appropriately respond to them as we strive to contribute to the sustainable development of society and become a trusted corporate group through our business activities.
We aim to further invigorate the sustainability activities and improve performance of the 黑料门 Group as a whole while exchanging opinions between external experts and internal member including CEO and CSO.
| Experts |
Takeshi Kamigochi Mari Kogiso Rika Sueyoshi Peter David Pedersen |
|---|---|
| Internal Members |
Kazuo Kawamura Shinji Matsuoka Youichirou Yamagata Jirou Morita |
Experts profile
Takeshi Kamigochi
Member of the Board, Executive Officer, Senior Vice President & COO, J-OIL MILLS, INC.
Mr. Kamigochi has been involved in global management in the consumer goods business and distribution channels at Unilever Japan K.K., Walmart Japan K.K., and Sunstar Suisse S.A.
He gained experience in finance and supply chain functions, followed by 12 years of experience as CEO at three companies.
He also has more than 15 years of experience in overseas posts, including the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Switzerland.
Since July 2021, he has served at J-Oil Mills, Inc., developing strategies for structural reform and growth. Since July 2023, Mr. Kamigochi has been leading the promotion of the Medium-Term Business Plan in his current position.
Mari Kogiso
Co-CEO, SDG Impact Japan
Mari is an impact investing leader with extensive background in sustainable finance and social entrepreneurship. Mari cofounded SDG Impact Japan in 2021 and developed the ESG engagement fund to promote sustainable conduct of Japanese medium and small sized public companies. In 2017, she led the establishment of the Asia Women Impact Fund ($100 million) at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the first gender lens investment fund in Japan. Previously Mari held several senior positions at the World Bank Group in Washington DC and Tokyo including the representative of MIGA (the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency) in Tokyo. She also served as the global head of diversity and human rights of Fast Retailing Group, and Japan Representative of Dalberg, She currently serves as a independent director of Mitsubishi Corporation, a risk advisor on JICA鈥檚 Overseas Investment Review Committee; and a member of the Advisory Board of the CIO office, Nikko Securities.
Mari holds a BA in Economics from Tokyo University and an MA from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
Rika Sueyoshi
CEO, Ethical Association
Rika Sueyoshi graduated from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. She has experience traveling around world as a mystery hunter in the TBS television program 鈥淪ekai Fushigi Hakken! (Discovering the World鈥檚 Mysteries).鈥� Rika aims to spread ethical consumption throughout Japan in order to realize a sustainable society where ethical living is a measure of happiness. She wrote an essay in a Japanese language textbook for first-year junior high school students (KYOIKU-SHUPPAN Co., Ltd.) that has been in use since 2021. Her other written works include 鈥淗ajimete no Ethical (Starting Ethical)鈥� (Yamakawa Shuppansha Ltd.), the picture book 鈥淛unbi wa Ii Kai?-Na Mo Naki Kozaru to Ethical na Boken (Are You Ready? An Ethical Adventure with a Nameless Little Monkey)鈥� (Yamakawa Shuppansha Ltd.), and 鈥淓thical Kakumei (Ethical Revolution)鈥� (Yamakawa Shuppansha). She has served as a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Council on Consumer Affairs, director of the Japan Ethical Initiative, director of the Japan Sustainable Labels Association, member of the Recycling Society Department, Central Environment Council (from April 2021), member of the Subcommittee on Resource Recycling Economy, Committee on Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment, Industrial Structure Council (from September 2023), member of Subcommittee for the Construction of a Decarbonized Resource Recycling System for Venous Industries, Central Environment Council (from September 2023), member of the Consumer Education Promotion Council (from October 2023), and an advisor for the promotion of ethical consumption in Kamakura City among other roles.
Peter David Pedersen
Representative Director, Next Leaders' Initiative for Sustainability (NELIS)
Born in Denmark in 1967, Mr. Pedersen has lived in Japan over 30 years.
He has been involved in sustainability management since 2000, and has assisted many Japanese companies with their sustainability strategies. Since 2015, Mr. Pedersen has served as representative director of the Next Leaders' Initiative for Sustainability (NELIS), which fosters young next-generation leaders around the world. He was named outside director of 黑料门 Holdings Co., Ltd. in June 2022, and he serves concurrently as an outside director at Marui Group Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
Informing Employees
We believe it is extremely important for our employees to understand our sustainability policies and activities. In April 2020, we began a sustainability-focused e-learning program for employees in Japan. In April 2021, we established the 黑料门 Brand Promotion Leaders system, selecting leaders from each workplace to embody our new group slogan “Now ideas for wellness” and spread further understanding of our sustainability activities. Then, in April 2022, we launched the 黑料门 Sustainability College as a comprehensive framework for various initiatives (online courses, e-learning, sustainability communications, etc.) as part of promoting a sense of ownership. In FY2022, a total of 6,715 employees took online courses. Our quarterly e-learning program, which targeted approximately 13,000 employees in Japan and representatives overseas, had an average participation rate of 91.8%. Through these initiatives, we have worked to increase general knowledge about sustainability and understanding of the 黑料门 Group’s sustainability activities, and in FY2023, there was a 1.2-point year-on-year increase in understanding of the 2026 Vision. Through these initiatives, we will further strengthen our efforts to make sustainability the norm for each and everyone of our employees.