The Lawson Group has appointed Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) to address environmental issues, such as climate change, and social issues, such as human rights, through the implementation of ESG-based management, and the president and CEO has assumed this role.
The SDGs Promotion Office, which directly reports to the President, has also been established as a dedicated department responsible for sustainability activities across the entire Group.
The SDGs Committee (held four times a year) is attended by the heads of organizations related to sustainability as members, and the SDGs Promotion Office serves as the secretariat to promote the Lawson Group's sustainability initiatives.
Under the SDGs Committee, we have established working groups and other bodies on issues that need to be addressed by the Lawson Group with a particular sense of urgency (reducing CO2 emissions, reducing food loss, reducing plastic use, supply chain, and information disclosure), and are examining specific promotional measures.
Based on the results of these discussions, the SDGs Committee confirms the direction to be headed and, as necessary, makes decisions at meetings of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.
With regard to the issues to be addressed, based on our Three Promises, we have identified the six material issues on sustainability that should be prioritized from the issues that have a large impact on the environment, society, and economy in our business activities, including the value chain of the Group.
Each division of the Company and each Group company stringently adheres to the Three Promises and promotes ambitious initiatives in cooperation with one another to address the material issues.
We regularly report the status of these initiatives to the SDGs Committee to ensure progress across the Group.