Corporate social responsibility
- Children at Baan Gerda village, Thailand
Daiichi Sankyo's mission is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical products to address the diversified, unmet medical needs of patients in both mature and emerging markets. In other words, the business activities that the Group conducts each day are themselves corporate social responsibility activities and constitute the goal we seek to achieve.
We build trust by endeavouring to satisfy patients, medical professionals, employees, shareholders, suppliers and regional communities as well as all other stakeholders who surround to the Group.
Remaining a sustainable company that society trusts
To achieve this goal, it is important to attain balanced improvements for our three areas of corporate values: social values, economic values and humanistic values. Daiichi Sankyo views its social responsibility as contributing to the construction of a sustainable society by carefully guiding its corporate conduct from the perspective of these three value improvements, and thus continuing to be a company that society trusts and remains sustainable. This, we believe, is the foundation of corporate social responsibility and our business management.
Global environmental responsibility
The two key targets of Daiichi Sankyo′s environmental activities are the prevention of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the promotion of the economical use of resources. Even though CO2 emissions of the pharmaceutical industry are relatively low in comparison with other industries, Daiichi Sankyo takes its responsibility very seriously and implemented a carbon-offset programme in 2008. This programme includes detailed emission targets for all production facilities and the various research and development centres. As a result of this programme, more than 5,200 metric tons of CO2 emissions have already been avoided across the Group. One step in achieving this reduction was made by the Pfaffenhofen plant: Heating energy there is no longer generated from fossil fuels, but rather from a local bio-mass-fired power plant.