Question: Does the company provide evidence of engaging with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal?
Answer:
Yes
19796355
World Benchmarking Alliance
Kao Corporation
2024
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The company has partnership requirements for suppliers, in which it expects its suppliers to voluntary manage water conservation and effective water usage. Further, it discloses that it participates in the Water section of the CDP SC Program and asks key suppliers to provide responses in order to make its suppliers more sensitive to water, efficiently improve their resilience against water risk, and ensure their sustainability. Moreover, it requests its suppliers to provide information through the CDP SC Program on the volumes of water intake and discharged water, targets to reduce them, facility water risk, and water-related management levels, and it provides feedback on the results to each supplier, shares the results with Procurement Division personnel, and uses it to strengthen engagement to enhance the suppliers' water-risk management levels. Additionally, it requests the plants of all suppliers to participate in Sedex, which allows it to survey water-related and other matters, and it believes suppliers' ability to respond to ESG issues, including water management, will improve, making its supply chain more resilient.