Better comes from transformation
It takes both partnership and innovation to drive transformation. Whether it’s transformation of our own business or accelerating a sustainable future for all, we are delivering real impact and value to society.
Value creation for people and planet
As a global technology leader with over 320,000 employees, Hitachi is helping to answer key societal challenges.
In collaboration with our customers and partners, we are growing our business to deliver value for people and the planet.
Impact is realized with customers and partners through our three main business areas: Green Energy & Mobility, Digital Systems & Services and Connective Industries. This is complemented by Lumada, Hitachi’s advanced digital solutions platform.
Our strategic priorities
Our approach to sustainable transformation is structured across three pillars of action.
Click on the links or see our latest Sustainability Report to learn more about our targets and progress being made:
Creating real impact for planet and people, we are now a company focused on sustainable growth
Materiality – the sustainability topics that matter most to us
Hitachi has identified six material topics and 15 sub-material topics that matter most in terms of their impact on the business and our impact on wider society.
The topics identified were the outcome of a comprehensive materiality assessment process. These issues help inform our focus on areas for action and impact. Both in how we transform our own business and with wider positive contribution we make to society.
As a climate change innovator, Hitachi will contribute to the realization of a carbon neutral society with Hitachi's superior green technologies, by providing value to customers in all business segments. We will also promote resource efficiency toward the transition to a circular economy.
SDG alignment
Hitachi helps people live safely by contributing to the rapid recovery of supply chains and the maintenance of social infrastructure by providing system solutions that can respond immediately to risks, such as natural disasters, pandemics, and cyberattacks.
SDG alignment
Hitachi contributes to the realization of comfortable and active lifestyles for people by providing solutions in the building, mobility, and security fields that support urban development for safe and secure living.
SDG alignment
Hitachi is harnessing our healthcare and digital technologies to help more people develop bonds and enjoy healthier, more prosperous lives. We will also continue to pursue the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, as we believe that their happiness and wellbeing is the ground on which Hitachi’s future will flourish even more fully.
SDG alignment
As a Group responsible for social infrastructure around the world, Hitachi will manage its business with honesty and integrity, trusted by society, respect human rights and provide a safe workplace. We will reflect a system of ethical and responsible business conduct, including respect for human rights, in our business activities and decision-making standards, working together with our employees, collaborative partners and communities throughout the supply chain.
SDG alignment
Hitachi has a place for everyone, welcoming differences in colleagues’ background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, and religion. At Hitachi, we treat everyone fairly, recognizing differences to allow everyone to perform at their full potential. We respect and value these and other differences because only through them we can understand our markets, create better ideas and drive innovation.
SDG alignment
Comprehensive performance targets have been defined for each topic and are associated with relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals. Oversight for progress against these targets sits with Hitachi’s leadership, in the form of our Senior Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
Collaboration and partnerships
Partnership and co-creation are essential for sustainable development. This is how we look to understand and help solve problems.
This principle underpins our participation in initiatives and collaborative work with partners in addressing environmental and social issues on a global scale.
Sustainability ratings and indicies
Hitachi is highly rated across a range of corporate sustainability benchmarks and leading ESG indices.
This reflects our commitment to transparency and our focus on delivering on our commitments.
Acting across our value chain
Only by working with our partners, from suppliers to customers, can we increase our shared impact. This is why we look at the bigger picture.
Through collaboration with partners, we are creating the infrastructure and services needed to ensure a transition to net zero:
Our commitment to become a carbon neutral business by 2050 includes all emissions created across our full value chain (including indirect scope 3 emissions).
We map and act on water risks across our regions and at each stage of our supply chain.
We pursue a sustainable approach to procurement by identifying and mitigating risks associated with the globalization of our business. Covering over 30,000 procurement partners across over 60 countries, this work involves selective benchmarking, support for partners to improve and taking corrective action where required.
We work to build capacity and understanding on sustainability topics from human rights to greenhouse gas emissions with our procurement partners. This includes procurement seminars for over 500 partners, internal training across Hitachi and encouraging procurement with local firms.
These are just a few examples of how we are monitoring, reporting and driving change for both environmental and social impacts across our entire value chain.
In 2023 our work in this area saw Hitachi receive the highest rating for ‘supplier engagement’ by CDP, recognizing our efforts to contribute to realizing net zero societies, including the reduction of CO2 emissions throughout the supply chain.
Continuing our journey
A sustainable future for all requires innovation at speed and collaboration, bringing together diverse perspectives from our colleagues, our various businesses and crucially from our customers, universities and other partners.
Recognizing we can never stand still, Hitachi is continuing to build further on areas of need and opportunity in our approach to sustainability:
Working within planetary boundaries
We are quantifying and looking to minimize the gap between positive and negative nature-related impacts across our business by 2050. This includes exploring products and services that contribute to ecosystem preservation, and finding new ways to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems.
Increasing resource efficiency
We are focused on creating higher economic value using fewer resources while pursuing production activities with a lower environmental burden. This includes looking beyond our existing target to reduce water use across Hitachi Group by 50% by 2050 (compared with a 2010 baseline).
Putting DEI at the heart of our global culture
We understand that diversity is a source of strength, both for our business and the people within it. We work to ensure every one of our 320,000 employees feel valued and included.
The sustainability agenda, expectations of stakeholders and the role we can play continue to evolve, so there will always be more to do.
