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Azbil Participates in UN’s Private Sector Forum 2024

TOKYO, October 18, 2024: Azbil Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange Code: 6845) took part in the Private Sector Forum held in New York in September 2024.

Hosted by the UN Secretary-General and organized by the UN Global Compact (UNGC), this forum has been held since 2008 with the aim of ensuring that the views of the private sector are reflected in intergovernmental discussions. Invited this year were global leaders and more than 100 CEOs from companies participating in the UNGC.

This year’s forum focused on five key areas of the SDGs in which the private sector has a significant influence: gender equality, climate action, living wage, water resilience, and SDG finance & investment. Discussions focused on taking action to achieve the SDGs, responding to geopolitical disorder, promoting sustainable finance, and harnessing AI.

Azbil’s President Kiyohiro Yamamoto, who was among the invitees, stressed the importance of collaboration in speeding up progress toward achieving the SDGs. “To accelerate climate action, we need to draw on the wisdom of the whole world,” he proposed. “Companies all over the globe should build cooperative relationships and work together on finding solutions rather than competing with each other.”

In 2021, the UNGC was signed by Azbil, which supports and puts into practice the Ten Principles pertaining to the four areas (human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption) defined by this initiative. Azbil also supports the new Forward Faster^* initiative that was launched in September 2023.

Guided by the philosophy of “human-centered automation,” the azbil Group continually strives to make contributions that lead “in series” to a sustainable society and to achieve sustained growth.

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^*Forward Faster
A collective corporate action initiative launched by the UNGC, Forward Faster aims to accelerate progress across all Sustainable Development Goals by setting measurable and credible common targets, and by taking ambitious cooperative action in five areas where the private sector can make the biggest, fastest impact by 2030: gender equality, climate action, living wage, water resilience, and SDG finance & investment.

* Posted information is accurate as of the date of announcement.