Sustainability

Management System and Promotion Activities

We have organized the opportunities and risks the Teijin Group faces, and established a sustainable management base to promote sustainability initiatives.

Management System

The Group has identified sustainability issues as management issues, including social and environmental issues, such as consideration of climate change and other global environmental issues, respect for human rights, consideration of employees' health and work environment, fair and appropriate treatment of employees, fair and appropriate business transactions with business partners, and crisis management in response to natural disasters.

Teijin has established the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)* as the person responsible for the Company's sustainability activities. Under the guidance and supervision of the Board of Directors, the CSO is promoting sustainability initiatives that are integrated with the Group's business activities.

  • *Diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts are overseen and promoted by the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).

The Company will discuss and report policies, plans, and progress related to sustainability at the Management Committee and conduct a review once a year under the purview of the CSO to confirm important issues at each business unit and Group company. Regarding important operational risks, deliberations on basic plans take place at meetings of the Total Risk Management (TRM) Committee twice a year. The progress is then reported to the TRM Committee, and the details of these discussions and reports are then passed on to the Board of Directors. Moreover, once a year the CSO reports the performance status of their duties to the Board of Directors, and sustainability-related activities are undertaken under the guidance and supervision of the Board of Directors.

Management System

Promotion Activities

We have organized the opportunities and risks the Teijin Group faces with the aim of contributing to the development of a sustainable world, and established a sustainable management base to promote sustainability initiatives.

In order to implement the Teijin Group's sustainability initiatives in a unified and effective manner, a main division/organization in charge is specified under the supervision of the CSO for each important sustainability issue. This main division/organization then starts the PDCA cycle of planning for the medium to long term and for single fiscal years (Plan), implementing this plan (Do), evaluating (Check), and improving (Action) to achieve ongoing improvement and enhancement of our sustainability initiatives.

PDCA approach to sustainability initiatives

PDCA approach to sustainability initiatives

Implementation of the CSO Review

With regard to the Group's sustainability initiatives, every year the CSO conducts a review to confirm how each business group and Group company are responding to important sustainability-related issues. The review also confirms the status regarding major law violations, incidents, and accidents.

External Evaluations

Status of inclusion in SRI indices (as of August 2023)
The Teijin Group was evaluated on its initiatives for ESG to date, and for its transparency in information disclosure. As a result, we continue to be included in the following leading socially responsible investment (SRI) indices.

Inclusion in Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Indices
  • Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
  • FTSE4Good Index Series
  • Ethibel Investment Register

Teijin has been listed in Global Sustainability Yearbook 2023 published by S&P Global (U.S.), a world leading provider of investigations and evaluations related to ESG investment. The Global Sustainability Yearbook recognizes companies around the world with outstanding sustainability initiatives.

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
FTSE4Good Index Series
Ethibel Investment Register
Selected for the components of all five ESG indices used in the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)
  • MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index
  • MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN)
  • FTSE Blossom Japan Index
  • FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index
  • S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index
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  • Note: THE INCLUSION OF TEIJIN LIMITED IN ANY MSCI INDEX, AND THE USE OF MSCI LOGOS, TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS OR INDEX NAMES HEREIN, DO NOT CONSTITUTE A SPONSORSHIP, ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF TEIJIN LIMITED BY MSCI OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES AND LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OR SERVICE MARKS OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES.
Received an AAA rating, the highest rating, in the MSCI ESG rating evaluation
  • MSCI ESG「AAA」
As a company with excellent ESG initiatives, we have been selected for three programs
  • Company with Excellent Health Management
  • Work with Pride
  • D&I Award

Building on our accomplishments in FY2021, we were achieved the GOLD award at Work with Pride 2022 and the Best Workplace for D&I Award 2022.

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