Sustainability Management
Sustainability Promotion
Basic stance and policy
Aisin's management philosophy is “Inspiring ‘movement,’ creating tomorrow.” Our mission is to deliver beauty to our future earth, bringing freedom and happiness to “movement.”
Through dialogue with stakeholders, we anticipate social issues and needs and aim to achieve a virtuous cycle of sustainable society realization and corporate value enhancement through our business activities.
To fully implement sustainability management, we have established the Aisin Group Charter of Sustainability as a guideline for our corporate activities. Additionally, we have defined specific actions that employees should take to comply with the Charter in the Aisin Group Code of Conduct and ensure its thorough understanding and implementation.
Promotion Structure
The Sustainability Conference, chaired by the President, is held twice a year to discuss and decide on the direction of sustainability-related activities, as well as to manage the progress of activities based on materiality. Based on the policies decided at the Sustainability Conference, activity plans are developed by various committees and other bodies, and efforts are made to achieve the goals.
Sustainability promotion structure
Various major meetings include Strategy Functional Conference , VC business Conference, etc.
Sustainability Conference
| Frequency | 2 times / year, in principle |
|---|---|
| Chair | President |
| Secretariat | Sustainability Management Section, Corporate Planning Department |
| Participants | Senior executive officers, regional division heads, presidents of major group companies, etc. |
| Main agenda items | Sharing the latest trends in sustainability Discussing and deciding on sustainability policies Reviewing materiality, determining indicators and targets, and monitoring progress |
Minutes of the Sustainability Conference and the proceedings of various committees are submitted and reported to the Board of Directors. Key agenda items for FY2025 are as follows.
| Domain | Board of Directors agenda items | Category | Promoting committee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainability (general) | Revision of the AISIN Group Charter of Sustainability | Resolutions | Sustainability Conference |
| Materiality Report | Report | ||
| Risk management overview | Results of semi-annual assessment of priority risks | Report | Risk Management Committee |
| Climate Change | Concept and Initiatives for Energy Value Chain Business Operations | Report | VC Business Conference |
| Carbon Neutral Promotion Committee *2 | |||
| Medium-to-long-term business strategy | Report | Strategy Functional Conference | |
| Carbon Neutral Promotion Committee | |||
| Human capital | Human capital strategy | Report | Human Resources Functional Committee |
| Health management | Report | Safety and Health Committee |
As of FY2025. The name of the meeting body will be changed to CN/CE Promotion Subcommittee from FY 2026.
In addition, to further incentivize directors to address sustainability issues, the Company has incorporated sustainability KPIs into evaluation procedures for performance-linked compensation. For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance section of this website.