Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) /
United Nations Global Compact

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Foster Group will continue to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are proposed by the United Nations, and conduct sustainability activities through the UNGC framework.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Our Actions

We are promoting the following 13 items among the 17 goals through our business activities and will continue to take action to help achieve a sustainable society.

SDGs	Actions	Business Activities	Social Contribution	In-house
	Donation activities for low-income households, assistance with food, clothes, necessities etc.		●
	Participation in a blood donation program		●
	Implementation of Health Point System and health enhancement online seminars			●
	Provision of Speaker Craft Workshop and Parent-and-Child Speaker Craft Workshop, work experience program for junior high school students and provision of science education at junior high schools		●
	Introduction of online training content related to diversity Implementation of career training for young and mid-career female employees			●
	Water risk management	●
	CO2 reduction	●
	Management of environmentally hazardous substances	●
	Work style reform			●
	Reduction of scheduled working hours			●
	Lifting the ban on second jobs			●
	Enrichment of holiday/leave programs			●
	Multi-track career course system			●
	Education on promoting diversity Driving the employment of diverse human resources, regardless of their nationality			●
	Management of chemical substances	●
	Promotion of recycling	●
	Environmentally friendly products	●
	CO2 reduction	●
	Promotion of clean energy use	●
	Environmentally friendly products	●
	Planting activities		●
	Initiatives for responsible minerals sourcing	●
	Governance Structure			●
	CSR assessments and audits	●
	Responsible procurement	●

About United Nations Global Compact

The Foster Group signed and joined the “United Nations Global Compact (UNGC),” the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative promoted by the United Nations, on January 19th, 2017. As a company that operates globally, we support the 10 principles of the UNGC of “Human Rights,” “Labour,” “Environment” and “Anti-Corruption” and conduct activities for compliance, decent work, care for the environment, and sustainability procurement, etc.

Activities as a member of the Global Compact Network Japan (GCNJ)

The Supply Chain Subcommittee, Environmental Management Subcommittee, Subcommittee to Cultivate Awareness of the Global Compact, Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) Subcommittee, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Subcommittee, SDGs Subcommittee, ESG Subcommittee, CSV Subcommittee, WEPs Subcommittee, Reporting Study Subcommittee, and Circular Economy Subcommittee of the GCNJ, which consist of the member companies of the UNGC, not only share the sustainability-related latest trends and study cases of each company through lecture meetings by influential individuals, but also are working to achieve diverse results supporting the sustainability activities of many companies based on the wide-ranging experience of the member companies. In addition, the knowledge obtained through the subcommittees is reflected in our sustainability activities.