The environment surrounding our company presents a wide variety of social and environmental issues, such as climate change, labor load issues, and human rights issues. In order for us to continue our economic activities into the future, we need to recognize and evaluate the impact of these various issues on our corporate activities and clarify the issues to be addressed.
We identified the most important sustainability topics for Asahi Tanker by taking into account the level of expectation from society and the level of importance in our company.
Understanding
existing social issues
Mapping out
SDG
topics
Identifying our
ESG
priorities
Understanding existing social issues
Compiling social issues based on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and identifying social issues related to the Company.
Mapping out SDG topics
Mapping out the importance levels of the social issues related to our company. We start identifying our SDG priorities based on this map.
- Good health and well-being
- Mental wellbeing, non-smoking, safety activities
- Quality education
- Education opportunities for crew members and employees
- Gender equality
- Employment of female crew members, presence of women in management positions
- Affordable and clean energy
- Provision of Stable energy supply
- Decent work and economic growth
- Encouraging employees to take childcare leave, workstyle reform
- Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
- Electric vessel business, new businesses, digital transformation (DX)
- Reduced inequalities
- Employment activity, performance evaluations
- Sustainable cities and communities
- Revitalization of depopulated islands
- Responsible consumption and production
- Reporting sustainability information, effective resource use
- Climate action
- CO2 emission reduction
- Life below water
- Appropriate processing of waste, oil spill prevention measures, seaweed bed restoration
- Life on land
- Protection of land by seaweed beds and CO2 emission reduction
Identifying our ESG priorities
By allocating resources to these priorities, we aim to avoid risks and seize opportunities for innovation to deliver value to our stakeholders and achieve ongoing and long term growth.