Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]KDDI considers the achievement of carbon neutrality as one of the critical tasks of management as a mid-term strategy. As one of the measures to accomplish this task, KDDI collaboratively engages in activities that may directly or indirectly affect policies, laws, or regulations that may have an impact on the climate.
KDDI's Policy Coordination Department constantly collects information on the approaches from policy makers such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and information is disseminated to the relevant departments within the company for cases that require response. The relevant departments will review the key climate change-related tasks that are disseminated, and report their results to the Carbon Neutrality Subcommittee and the Sustainability Committee, which will respond directly to the policy makers' calls for action. On the other hand, when KDDI approaches policy makers, the work of individual companies cannot be expected to be effective. Therefore, after reporting to the Carbon Neutrality Subcommittee and the Sustainability Committee, we will approach policy makers through Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), which brings together industry associations. In addition, through the KDDI Green Partners Fund, which was approved and established by the Board of Directors, we are working to invest in start-up companies that are working on a wide range of climate change-related issues. We invest in start-up companies after reporting to the Corporate Management Committee each time a decision is made to invest in a start-up company. Through the above-mentioned direct and indirect approaches to policy makers and various types of engagement in the form of financial support to start-up companies, we are working to achieve carbon neutrality in KDDI and society.