Our pledges for realizing sustainable business growth and delivering value to society

PLEDGES defines the direction to future-proof our business, unify cross-business efforts to stay competitive, and deliver positive impact for our customers, communities, and planet while ensuring Hitachi’s continued growth. It aligns with our new Inspire 2027 management plan that places sustainability at the heart of our wider business strategy.

Taking action is important, but to meet the needs of today without compromising those of future generations, we must first lay the proper groundwork. Creating PLEDGES started with assessing our financial and social impacts, as well as engaging stakeholders and analyzing current social trends. We then defined our key priorities, bringing clarity, focus, and ambition to our sustainability efforts. The framework is built around seven distinct strategic pillars: Planet, Leadership, Empowerment, Diverse perspectives, Governance, Engagement, and Sustainability for all – each with targets for long-term value creation and sustainable transformation.

PLEDGES is our vision for a more sustainable future – an actionable, group-wide system that will help us advance real-world change. We’re embedding this framework across every part of Hitachi through internal communications, enhanced sustainability governance across the organization, and executive compensation tied to PLEDGES targets. We’re also taking pillar-specific action.

For the Planet pillar, we’re taking concrete steps toward decarbonization, circular economy, and nature positive, in line with our Environmental Vision. In fiscal 2025, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has verified our science-based target to achieve net zero by fiscal 2050. We also achieved a CDP climate score of A, and our initiative addressing avoided emissions has been recognized by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as a concrete example of emissions reduction impact, signaling our dedication to transparency and accountability. We will continue group-wide environmental initiatives to achieve our long-term environmental targets.

The pillars of Leadership, Empowerment and Diverse perspectives reflect our belief that people are the key to our success. Through implementing our human capital strategy aligned with our business strategy, we are aiming to secure and develop the passionate and driven individuals and create the optimal environment to advance our sustainable growth.

We are focused on developing leaders to foster business creation, incentivizing people, and stimulating high performance, as well as building inclusive workplaces where we unlock innovation and strengthen collaboration across teams.It is also necessary to build a robust HR platform as an enablement to accelerate synergy and provide employees with attractive career and growth opportunities across the Hitachi Group.

As we foster reskilling and upskilling of employees, we aim to strengthen AI expertise to boost productivity and effectiveness, enhance talent mobility, and set common global HR policies to foster collaboration.

Sustainable transformation requires going beyond business-as-usual, taking a systemic view of what we do, how we do it, and our impact on the world. Through our Governance pillar, we’re enhancing how we operate, prioritizing employee and contractor health and safety, strengthening risk management systems, and encouraging a strong culture of shared responsibility for ethics and compliance. Our commitment to honest, transparent operations was recognized in 2025 as we were named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere. And, with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement, we are also fostering supply chain sustainability and respect for human rights throughout our wider value chain under the Engagement pillar.

The seventh pillar – Sustainability for all – underpins everything we do. By taking action against our first six pillars and accelerating our Social Innovation Business, we can deliver true, lasting value.

This pillar is critical for Hitachi, as at the heart of Inspire 2027 is our relentless ambition to create real-world impact. Through our healthcare solutions and security technologies, we help to keep people healthy and safe. Our developments in transportation and connectivity bring people better transport, while our sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy solutions are key to building resilient communities with a lower environmental impact.

Sustainability has always been at the core of Hitachi. Now, with the PLEDGES framework, we are building on that foundation. By combining our spirit of innovation with domain knowledge and AI-powered technologies, we strengthen our businesses and support a harmonized society in which environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. By leveraging the diverse talent of our 280,000 employees, we have the power to deliver positive impact in various ways. But we also know that no one person, company, or country can do this alone.

The size and scale of the transformation the world needs is historic, and the only way to achieve it is through collaboration. That’s why we work with partners who share our passion and our purpose, teaming up to advance society and deliver Sustainability for all. Everyone can play a critical role and, through PLEDGES, we invite all our stakeholders to join us in acting for a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future.