East Japan Railway Co

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…] Climate change-related policies are positioned as internal and external issues, needs and expectations of stakeholders, and risks and opportunities in the approach to identifying issues to be addressed in our management system, and then incorporated into specific environmental measures.

These measures are shared by the Corporate Planning Department through our Sustainability Strategy Committee to each of our planning divisions and their respective planning departments at our head office (6 organizations), controlling organization (1 organization), and local organizations (15 organizations).

Each organization then confirms whether their engagement activities are in line with our climate change strategy or not, and reports the results to the Corporate Planning Department.

Through this process, we ensure that our policy engagement do not conflict with our climate change strategy across multiple business units and regions.

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]Yes

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your external engagement activities are consistent with your climate commitments and/or climate transition plan?[…]We established the Sustainability Strategy Committee, which is the supreme decision-making body engaging in environmental issues, and hold meetings twice a year to discuss actions that we must take to realize a decarbonized society. In the meeting, we discuss issues that cannot be solved by ourselves and requires support from the government. Based on the discussion at the meeting, we engage with multiple ministries to gain support to achieve our climate commitment and execute the transition plan.