Management

Interest toward realizing a sustainable environment, society and economy has been growing, as is illustrated by such initiatives as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations, the Paris Agreement going into effect and growing ESG investment. In recent years, corporate initiatives have also placed a growing emphasis on these areas.
In particular, on the environmental front, climate change and energy problems are becoming more serious worldwide, and the automotive industry is seeing changes on a scale said to occur only once in 100 years. These changes include new technologies, such as connectedness and autonomous driving, as well as car sharing and other new business models.
MITSUBISHI MOTORS recognizes that various challenges in the environmental, social, and governance fields pose risks to the Company’s sustainable growth.
At the same time, the Company views tackling societal issues as an opportunity for new business and strives to mitigate risks such as reducing greenhouse gases from its business activities.

We have established the Sustainability Committee, which is chaired by the executive officer, president & CEO, to promote sustainability initiatives throughout the MITSUBISHI MOTORS Group. MITSUBISHI MOTORS has identified material issues as important issues that we should wrestle from various problems in the environmental, social, and governance fields. The Sustainability Committee confirms the risks and opportunities identified from a long-term perspective by those responsible for each materiality initiative.
At the same time, the Sustainability Committee deliberates and decides on initiative targets based on the external environment and stakeholder needs and expectations from a medium-term perspective, and uses the PDCA cycle by checking progress.
We have a structure in which important matters such as reviewing material issues and the overall status of sustainability activities are deliberated and reported by the Board of Directors.

On the environmental front, the Sustainability Committee discusses our efforts to achieve carbon neutrality, which is a global issue, and to enhance disclosure in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Recommendations. On the social front, we discuss initiatives involving human rights, which are an area companies are increasingly being called upon to address.
We provide timely disclosure of the Sustainability Committee’s proceedings on our website. Please refer to the following.

MITSUBISHI MOTORS conducts penetration activities throughout the year so that executives and employees can deepen their understanding of sustainability and practice sustainability initiatives through their daily work. At the end of each fiscal year, we conduct an employee awareness survey to confirm the degree of penetration. We use the survey results to strengthen and improve each measure and reflect them in activities in the following fiscal year.