Suzuki Supplier Sustainability Guidelines

Since 2016, when Suzuki published the first edition of the Guidelines, "Suzuki CSR Guidelines for suppliers," people's awareness of human rights and environmental issues has been growing. As a result, companies have become required to realize sustainable management that balances the resolution of social issues through business activities with the corporate growth from a long-term perspective.

Considering these changes, Suzuki has compiled a new "Suzuki Supplier Sustainability Guidelines" as a tool for sharing sustainability-related expectations and standards with our suppliers and forming a common understanding to strengthen sustainability initiatives and promote “responsible sourcing” in the supply chain.

Suzuki kindly requests our suppliers to understand the purpose of these guidelines and cooperate in enhancing corporate value and mutual development through sustainable management.

SUZUKI Supplier Sustainability Guidelines

Environmental Protection in Cooperation with the Suppliers

Promotion of environmental protection activities and compliance to environmental laws based on the Suzuki Green Procurement Guideline

SUZUKI GREEN PROCUREMENT GUIDELINE

Biodiversity Guideline

As a manufacturer of transportation equipment, Suzuki engages in environmental conservation in line with the Suzuki Global Environment Charter in order to pass on to the next generation a clean environment and a bountiful society. We also recognize the importance of the biodiversity that has always enabled people to enjoy great blessings from nature, so we treat its protection as one of our highest environmental priorities. We established the Suzuki Biodiversity Protection Guideline to guide our efforts to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity.

Basic Principles

The Suzuki group strives to reduce its impact on biodiversity and to help enable sustainable use of biodiversity. Specifically, we act in line with our "smaller, fewer, lighter, shorter, and neater" principle by pursuing environmental technologies and by making our corporate activities maximally efficient and free of waste.

Key Biodiversity Initiatives

Reducing the environmental burden of our corporate activities and products

• (1) We pursue energy savings, resource savings, and the three Rs at each stage from product development to recycling.
• (2) We reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by pursuing higher fuel efficiency and by developing next-generation vehicles.
• (3) We strive to reduce the use of substances of concern throughout our supply chains.

Promotion of environmental communication

• (1) We work with regional communities on projects for environmental beautification and conservation.
• (2) We strive to give all workers an awareness of biodiversity and to ensure that they act in line with that awareness.
• (3) We strive to disseminate information on the environment and information on our environmental conservation efforts.