In 2015, the United Nations announced 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030, including goals for ending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and tackling climate change.
Combined with our mission to contribute to society through our products and services, the diversity of Hitachi’s operational focuses positions the company well to make a broad contribution to achieving the SDGS.
Hitachi’s environmental vision is to pass on a prosperous planet to future generations.
To achieve this, Hitachi realises that all society needs to be, low carbon, resource efficient and harmonised with nature.
Our Environmental Vision programmes map out our environmental plans for the next 15 and 25 years.
Diversity & inclusion at Hitachi in Europe means that our whole workforce is engaged and enabled to work in a way that is beneficial to both the business and individual employees.
A workplace environment is created so that all people are involved, feel a sense of belonging and are respected, regardless of their diversity characteristics.
Digital technology has the capacity to help us resolve both environmental and societal issues and move us towards achieving the SDG’s, while driving economic growth. At the same time we can’t forget the inevitable tensions between the hope and promise digital technology offers and the risks we will need to mitigate.
The Internet of Things is a perfect example of this. Therefore, together with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) we set out to better understand how IoT contributes to the SDGs, the role of EU policy in this and the different approaches to measure its contribution.