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Editorial Policy
The Shin-Etsu Group started issuing the "Environmental Report" in 2000. In 2004, the report was renamed the "Environmental and Social Report" after expanding its contents to include corporate social responsibility in general, and in 2016, the report was retitled the "CSR Report" and has been issued without interruption. Furthermore, the Group has renamed "CSR Report" to "Sustainability Report" starting in 2019 since we have begun integrating SDGs into business management, expanding the scope of our business activities to realize a sustainable society.
The Report also serves as a report on our Responsible Care programs*1.
Overall Picture of Communication
Referenced Guidelines
- GRI Standards Content Index
- Ministry of the Environment "Environmental Reporting Guidelines 2018"
- Ministry of the Environment "Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 Edition"
- Global Compact Ten Principles
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures)
Period Covered by the Report (indicated where otherwise)
- Japan: April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024
- Overseas: January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023
Issue information
Issued: July 2024（Previous issue: June 2023）
Next issue: scheduled for June 2025
Organizations Covered by the Report
The scope of the reporting organization was changed from Shin-Etsu Chemical and its 99 consolidated companies. Where otherwise, this is indicated in a separate note.
Membership
- Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)
- Japan Chemical Industry Association
- Vinyl Environmental Council
- Plastic Waste Management Institute
- The International Friendship Exchange Council
- The Japan Committee for UNICEF
- Global Compact Network Japan
- SDGs Promise Japan, etc.
*1Responsible Care programs
A campaign encouraging enterprises that handle chemical substances to voluntarily ensure protection of the environment, health and safety in all processes, from the development of chemical substances through manufacture, distribution and utilization to final consumption, disposal or recycling, to publish the results of their activity, and to engage in dialogue and communication with society.
*2Shin-Etsu Polymer Group
For a report on the Shin-Etsu Polymer Group, see "Shin-Etsu Polymer Sustainability Report 2024" (to be published at the end of September 2024).
