Our corporate philosophy includes slogans like "proposing new value" and "contributing" to people around the world and shows our desire to contribute to society. This leads to sustainability, through our contributions to solving social issues through our business. Based on this belief, we believe that our mission and reason for existence is to create products and services that contribute to solving various social issues.
We established the CSR and Sustainability Charter and the CSR Basic Policies (12 policies in total) in order to present this idea in a ready-to-understand manner and for broad communication both internally and externally, and we promote CSR / Sustainability.
We have also established a system to promote the realization of a sustainable society.
We have expressed our support for international norms, goals, and guidelines such as the UN Global Compact, ISO26000, SDGs, and TCFD, based on our commitment to contribute to solving social issues through our business activities.
In addition, we have identified "priority issues" related to ESG (Environment, Society, and Governance) in our long-term management plan.
To ensure sustainable growth for our group and society, we have established the CSR and Sustainability Committee (which holds regular meetings four times a year and extraordinary meetings as needed), which is chaired by an outside director, focuses on external perspectives, identifies priority issues in each ESG field, and promotes activities to resolve these issues.
The CSR and Sustainability Committee is positioned as an advisory committee to the Board of Directors and has two functions: to report and make recommendations in response to the Board of Directors’ advising, and to supervise each special committee. In reports and recommendations, external experts will be invited as guest committee members to enhance the knowledge and perspective, and discussions will be held to promote sustainability management with a long-term perspective. For each special committee, whether or not each special committee, which is positioned on the business execution side, is functioning effectively will be closely watched and supervised as needed.
Progress on "responding to climate change" and "risk management," which have been identified as priority issues, has been shared with the CSR and Sustainability Committee.
Important decisions made by special committees are reported to the board of directors through the Management Meeting which deliberates, decides, and supervises important matters in business execution.
The CSR and Sustainability Committee met 10 times in FY2023, and discussed the ideal form of sustainability management, the next priority Issues, the promotion system of respect for human rights, and the revision of the CSR Basic Policy.
CSR and Sustainability Committee
Lecture by a guest committee memberWe distribute SDGs badges to our executives to show our commitment towards the realization of a sustainable society, and we work to raise awareness of SDGs among our employees and the public.
In FY2023, we held a three-day Sustainability Workshop for the next generation of management, where experts provided input on global trends and discussions focused on our Priority Issues.
WorkshopsWe conduct training by job classification and video training for all employees, to ensure that each employee is aware of the connection between their work and society daily so that they are able to take actions that contribute to solving social issues through their work. We also continue to send out information through e-mail newsletters and other means.
In addition, we regularly hold Open Talks, free-participation events that provide valuable opportunities for members from across divisions to exchange views on sustainability.
CSR and Sustainability Training
"Sustainability Video Learning Series" for all employees
A Sample of E-mail Magazine（Left: Japanese version, Right: English version）
Niterra Group participated in United Nations Global Compact in November 2016.
“United Nations global compact” is a voluntary corporate citizenship in order to address various problems such as global warming, environmental problems, gap-widening society that are progressing on a global scale. They are also initiatives that were proposed by Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1999, and established formally by the U.N. in July 2000.
Niterra Group will uphold ten principles consisted of four issues such as “Human rights, Labour, Environment, Anti-corruption” being advocated by the U.N. global compact as good members of society, and will make every effort to promote activities in order to contribute to building a sustainable society.
As a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, we are committed to doing what we can to contribute towards the achievement of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), the goals set by the United Nations.
*What are SDGs?
SDGs consist of the 17 goals and 169 targets that were adopted at the UN Summit in 2015 which aim to solve worldwide problems such as poverty, inequality, and climate change by 2030—pledging that “No one will be left behind.”
Nov. 1996
Adopted "Corporate Philosophy"
Feb. 1998
Adopted "Corporate Code of Conduct"
Oct. 2010
Established CSR Committee
Apr. 2011
Adopted “CSR Policy“
May. 2013
Published "CSR Procurement Guidelines"
Nov. 2016
Participated in "United Nations global compact"
Aug. 2017
Published “Integrated Report”
Jul. 2019
Published "Sustainability Data Book"
Apr. 2020
Adopted “CSR and Sustainability Charter“
Apr. 2024
Inauguration of "Human Rights Subcommittee“