Materialities and the ESG Action Plan
In conjunction with our announcement of our Second Medium-Term Management Plan (MTP2) , which launched in FY2021, we re-evaluated and redefined our materialities under five strategies.
One of Advantest’s materialities is the "Enhance ESG initiatives." In an effort to drive this materiality, we have set out the ESG Initiatives Basic Policy and formulated ESG Action Plan 2021 based on these policies.
In the Sustainability Data Book, we report on our sustainability initiatives based on ESG Action Plan 2021.
For the details of our materialities, please refer to Integrated Annual Report 2021.
ESG Action Plan 2021
| ESG | Key Issue | Person in Charge | Objective | KPI | Target Value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2030 | |||||
| E (Environment) |
Climate Change (Scope 1 + 2) |
Mihashi | Reduce GHG emissions from business activities by 60% by 2030 (vs. FY2018) | GHG emissions reduction amount / rate | 35% | 38% | 40% | 60% |
| Raise renewable energy usage to 70% by 2030, Group-wide | Coverage rate by Renewable Energy | 50% | 53% | 55% | 70% | |||
| Tsukakoshi | Reduce production times 30% through production process reviews (vs. FY2020) | Production time reduction rate for target models | 15% | 25% | 30% | (tbd) | ||
| Value Chain (Scope 3) |
Tsukakoshi | Promote the use of renewable energy by suppliers and contractors | Number of suppliers who have introduced renewable energy | 10 | 20 | 40 | (tbd) | |
| Tsukui | Reduce CO2-equivalent emissions (basic unit) per test by 50% by 2030 | Reduction rate in basic units (vs. FY2018) | → | → | 20% | 50% | ||
| Green Products | Tsukui | Develop products that are free from polluting substances | Perfluorocarbon (PFC) refrigerant will no longer be used | New methodology in development plan | Announce release plan | PFC totally eliminated from next-generation models | ||
| Resource Recycling | Fujita | Improve in-house recycling rate by promoting the 3Rs | Waste recycling rate | JPN: 90% Other region: 73% or more |
→ | → | JPN: 90% Other region: 73% or more |
|
| Maintain Group-wide water usage at FY2016 levels | Water resource usage | 288,000 m3/year | → | → | 288,000 m3/year | |||
| Biodiversity | Mihashi | Promote nature conservation activities (protection of endangered species in biotope, tree planting, beach clean-up, etc.) |
Planning and implementation rate of nature conservation activities | 10 activities planned, 80% implemented | 14 activities planned, 80% implemented | 18 activities planned, 80% implemented | 20 activities planned, 80% implemented | |
| S (Social) |
ESG management at Supply Chain | Tsukakoshi | Share and solve / mitigate ESG issues (risk management, human rights / occupational safety, environment, fair trade, compliance, etc.) | Due diligence implementation rate for major customers | 90% | 95% | 100% | 100% |
| Diversity Protection and Respect for Human Rights |
Fujita | Fair treatment in gender | Female manager ratio | 9.0% | → | → | (tbd) | |
| Edification and practice of Human Rights | Participation rate of educational training | 100% | → | → | 100% | |||
| Work-Life Balance | Return-to-work rate after maternity leave (JPN) Exercise rate of childcare leave by male (JPN) |
100% 12% |
→ | → | (tbd) | |||
| Tsukakoshi | Conflict minerals elimination | Elimination of substances (parts) provided by the Red List Smelter | 100% | → | → | 100% | ||
| Customer Satisfaction Employee Engagement |
Sakamoto | Raise customer satisfaction under New Normal circumstances | ranking of VLSIreserach customer satisfaction survey | 1st | → | → | 1st | |
| Keith Hardwick | Edification and improvement of attractive corporate culture | Score of Gallup survey | 3.5 | → | → | (tbd) | ||
| Occupational Safety and Health Health Management |
Fujita | Infectious disease countermeasures (e.g. Covid-19) and occupational safety | Occupational accident rate (frequency rate) | 0 | → | → | 0 | |
| Promotion of Health Management | to be selected in White 500 (JPN) | Do | → | → | Do | |||
| G (Governance) |
Board Effectiveness | Yoshida | Update business and management issues to outside directors | 3 times / year | Do | → | → | Do |
| Vitlize discussion through Off-site meeting by board members | 2 times / year | Do | → | → | Do | |||
| Succession Plan | Policy/Process making, planning, updates | Do | → | → | Do | |||
| Diversity of board members | Outside director (> 40%), must have female members | Do | → | → | Do | |||
| Add ESG performance assessment on compensation | Start from FY2021 | Do | → | → | Do | |||
| Corporate culture and code of conduct Compliance, Risk Management |
Fujita | Work Shop / Training for all employees (The Advantest Way, Law, Regulations, Information securities, etc) | Participation rate to e-learning (100%) | 100% | → | → | 100% | |
| Strengthening Internal Cotrol | Regulary discuss about Internal Control issues | Do | → | → | Do | |||
| Promotion & Support of ESG management (Sustainable Management Working Group) |
Mihashi | Support & Report group-wide Policy, Strategy, Plan and implementation | Report to Management Council and BoD (once a year) | Do | → | → | Do | |
| Timely and appropriate disclosure (Integrated Annual Report, Sustainability Databook) | Issuance every year | Do | → | → | Do | |||