Materiality and SDGs
Kyowa Kirin Group's Management Philosophy and CSV Management
In its management philosophy, the Kyowa Kirin Group upholds the principle of striving to create new value by capitalizing on its strengths in life sciences and technologies with the aim of contributing to the health and well-being of people around the world. By "new value," we mean value that can be shared by society at large. In other words, we focus on "Creating Shared Value (CSV)." Our Group practices CSV management aimed at realizing improved corporate value through the creation of both social and economic value by addressing social issues.
Materiality
In practicing its CSV management, the Kyowa Kirin Group identified priority issues that the Group needs to address (“materiality”) in light of their impacts on social sustainability as well as the Group's business. Materiality is also factored into our FY2021-2025 Mid-term Business Plan.

Identification/Implementation Process of CSV Materiality

Materiality and SDGs
The Kyowa Kirin Group endeavors to be conscientious about society’s expectations to the Group by constantly referring to the SDGs and other international frameworks for addressing social issues.
The materiality, which we identified by way of reflecting the needs of society, is factored into our mid-term business plan and cascaded down to specific actions in each organization's single-year plan. The progress of such business plan is closely monitored on a quarterly basis and reported to the Board of Directors.
Our way of making contribution to the SDGs will be subject to change, depending upon how our business evolves for the future. Nevertheless, we are aiming to play a greater role for the attainment of the SDGs through accelerating and expanding our business operations.
- -Each SDG is tied to the most relevant CSV material issue. However, in actual practice, other CSV material issues are tackled at the same time in a cross-sectional and overlapping manner.
- -We aim to contribute to all the SDGs including those not specified above by indirectly engaging with them through the Group's business operations.
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Growth opportunities
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Growth foundations
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Social foundations
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Kirin Group's CSV Commitment
The Kirin Group, to which the Kyowa Kirin Group belongs, upholds the goal of becoming a global leader in CSV by creating value across its world of food to pharmaceuticals. To this end, the Kirin Group formulated the Kirin Group CSV Purpose, with reference to the SDGs, as guidelines for creating shared value with society and achieving sustainable growth. The Kirin Group positions the Kirin Group CSV Commitment as an action plan to fulfill these guidelines. The CSV Commitment regarding health and the environment, specifically, “evolution in medical treatment (1.3, 1.4),” “health and productivity management (1.5),” “actions regarding climate change (3.1),” and “actions regarding water resources (3.2),” are upheld as the Kyowa Kirin Group’s important CSV management goals.
The United Nations Global Compact and the Kirin Group
The Kirin Group, to which our Group belongs, has announced participation in the United Nations Global Compact since September 2005. As a member of the Kirin Group, we observe the 10 principles of the United Nations Global Compact, which address human rights, labor, the environment, and anticorruption, and are advancing initiatives targeting the realization of sustainability for society and companies.