Sustainability Management

We at Unicharm are deeply committed to realizing a cohesive society. This cohesive society is one in which each person is independent while supporting others in a way that allows just the right sense of distance, enabling everyone to spend their lives in the way they so wish regardless of their situation, including vulnerable members of society and those who are at a disadvantage either temporarily or for an extended period due to aging, illness, childbirth, menstruation, or other factors. Aiming to steadily realize such a society, in 2020 we began promoting our medium- to long-term ESG goals Kyo-sei Life Vision 2030 and Environmental Targets 2030. 

　In October 2025, having advanced these initiatives for five years, we integrated them into Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035 to further accelerate our efforts. In formulating Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035, we incorporated feedback from stakeholders, including the observation that key themes overlap and the advice to make goals and results more concrete and measurable. Based on this feedback, taking into account both feasibility (ensuring rational judgments and concrete results) and effectiveness (degree of contribution to achieving results and objectives), Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035 was formulated with the following three points in mind.

1. Review of Key Themes and Quantification of Indicators and Targets

Through dialogue with internal and external stakeholders, we reviewed the priorities of material issues. As a result, in order to further enhance the connection with business activities, key themes were reorganized and revised from 20 to 16 items with more quantitative and concrete indicators and targets. For example, within the key theme “safeguarding the well-being of individuals,” which closely relates to our line of business, we established the number of users of Unicharm’s products as a new indicator and target value for 2035.

2. Integration of Kyo-sei Life Vision 2030 and Environmental Targets 2030

In formulating Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035, we integrated Environmental Targets 2030, which focuses on environmental issues, and Kyo-sei Life Vision 2030—two initiatives that were promoted in tandem until now. Specifically, in addition to addressing climate change, establishing value chains with consideration for sustainability and biodiversity, and reducing the amount of plastic materials used, we established “expanding the social implementation of RefF,”^* which is our proprietary circular business model, as a key theme, enabling us to integrate our resource recycling and environmental impact reduction efforts and advance them in a unified manner.

3. Rapid Implementation of Groupwide Initiatives

No goal can be achieved without the genuine commitment of the employees who execute them. With this in mind, in January 2023 we incorporated ESG criteria into the performance evaluation indicators for all employees, and beginning in fiscal 2026, we will link these evaluation criteria to the key themes of Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035. We will quickly move forward in this process by linking Companywide targets to departmental targets, and further to the goals of sections, groups, and other small organizational units as well as those of each employee. 

　We believe that a concerted Groupwide effort to steadily implement Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035, resolve environmental and social issues through our business activities, contribute to local communities, and ensure proper governance is essential to sustainably enhancing corporate value. By appropriately disclosing the progress and results of Kyo-sei Life Vision 2035, we aim to remain a company that is trusted by all stakeholders, including customers, shareholders and investors, business partners, employees and their families, and society as a whole.