Policy
Sojitz has selected the following Key Sustainability Issues (materiality) .
| Themes | Contents |
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Sojitz pursues the development, supply, and use of sustainable resources. We strive to conserve resources, propose suitable energy mixes and provide a stable supply of resources. * Includes energy, mineral, food, water, forest, marine and other resources |
Sojitz Group Environmental Policy
As a global company, Sojitz Group considers environmental issues a crucial topic to be addressed in management. Striving for a sustainable society, we will work to preserve the environment and prevent pollution in our business activities, while creating businesses that are both highly competitive and environmentally friendly.
- 4.Conserve
resources and reduce/recycle waste
We will engage in curbing the use of natural resources such as energy and water, and the reducing and recycling of waste. - 6.Pursue
sustainable resources
We will promote initiatives for the stable supply of resources and realization of a suitable energy mix.
Sojitz Group Environmental Policy
Relative Policies
Target
| Key Sustainability Issues | Sustainability Goal |
Business Area | Planned Approach |
| Resources | Produce and supply resources at risk of depletion in the future | Food resources | We are contributing to securing food resources with a focus on future population growth, principally in the feed production and sales business, which require stable production and quality minantenance, and feed plant construction business. |
| Water resources | Focused on developing countries with an expected increase in demand for water resources, we will strive to establish and expand businesses that provide a stable supply of domestic water. | ||
| Marine product resources | Making use of the expertise acquired through the marine products business, we will take on the challenge of "whole cultivation," raising adult fish from artificially bred juvenile fish. | ||
| Forestry resources | Strive for 100% traceability of the wood we handle by FY2020, and in the future, we will aim to ensure that 100% of the wood we handle is produced through suitable, environmentally/socially-conscious forest management. |
United Nations Food Systems Summit (FSS)*1
Sojitz supports the United Nations Food Systems Summit (FSS), which will launch concrete actions to transform food systems*2 to be more sustainable as part of the UN’s efforts to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- *1：The UN Food Systems Summit is a summit conceived of by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as an essential step to transform food systems to become more sustainable and to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- *2：Food systems refer to the series of activities involved in the production, processing, transport, and consumption of food.
- ・Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries UN FSS
“Sojitz will contribute to the realization of greater sustainability in food systems through its initiatives to provide a stable supply of food resources.”
Goals and Commitments
- ◆Sojitz will lead the way in promoting the spread of MSC-certified sashimi tuna around the world in order to pursue sustainable use of natural fishery resources. MSC certification provides proof that the seafood was caught by a responsible fishery in a sustainable manner.
- ◆In its tuna farming business, Sojitz is committed to sustainable aquaculture and aims to maintain its certification from the Seedling Council for Sustainable Aquaculture (SCSA).
- ◆Sojitz aims to utilize IoT and AI to industrialize tuna farming in order to improve the efficiency of its aquaculture business.