Sustainability Report 2016 Nissan Motor Corporation Sustainability Report 2016 01

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016 NISSAN MOTOR CORPORATION SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016 01 CONTENTS VIEWING THIS REPORT 2 1 3 This Sustainability Report is an interactive PDF. You can easily access the information 5 7 you need by clicking on the navigation tabs and buttons. 4 6 8 ● Section Tabs BUILDING TOMORROW’S SUSTAINABLE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CEO MESSAGE MOBILITY SOCIETY Sustainability Strategies Click the tabs to jump to the top page of each section. ● Navigation Buttons ● Link Buttons 02 16 Go back one page Jump to linked page Return to previously viewed page Jump to information on the web 03 43 Go forward one page Jump to information in CSR Data 04 53 ● Our Related Websites 07 62 14 70 ■ Editorial Policy ■ Third-Party Assurance Nissan publishes an annual Sustainability Report as a way of sharing Click the link at right to view the third-party assurance. information on its sustainability-related activities with stakeholders. 108 77 This year’s report reviews the progress and results achieved in fiscal page_136 2015, focusing on the concept of Building Tomorrow’s Sustainable Mobility Society and the eight sustainability strategies. ■ Forward-Looking Statements ■ Scope of the Report This Sustainability Report contains forward-looking statements 136 95 Period Covered: The report covers fiscal 2015 (April 2015 to March on Nissan’s future plans and targets and related operating 2016); content that describes efforts outside this period is indicated investment, product planning and production targets. There can in the respective sections. Organization: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., be no assurance that these targets and plans will be achieved. foreign subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the Nissan Group. Achieving them will depend on many factors, including not only 100 ■ Referenced Reporting Guideline Nissan’s activities and development but also the dynamics of GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (see website for complete the automobile industry worldwide, the global economy and GRI guideline table). Specific GRI indicators are listed for each changes in the global environment. sustainability strategy and in the CSR Data section. ■ Mistakes and Typographical Errors All errors discovered following publication of the report will be corrected and displayed on our website. On the Cover websit ■ For Further Information Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. The Nissan IDS Concept CSR Department ■ Date of Previous Report Phone: +81(0)45-523-5523 Fax: +81(0)45-523-5771 Sustainability Report 2015, issued June 22, 2015. E-mail: [email protected] ■ Reporting Cycle ■ Sustainability Report 2016 Annually since 2004 Publication Date: June 30, 2016 * In 2006 we published our last print edition of the Sustainability Report. Out of consideration for the environment, we now publish the report exclusively online. It can be downloaded from our website as PDF files. NISSAN MOTOR CORPORATION SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016 02 INTRODUCTION Corporate Vision Nissan: Enriching People’s Lives Corporate Mission Nissan provides unique and innovative automotive products and services that deliver superior measurable values to all stakeholders in alliance with Renault. Guided by its corporate vision of Enriching People’s Lives, Nissan aims to contribute to the sustainable development of society through its full range of global business activities in addition to providing value through its products and services. As a leading global automaker, Nissan is committed to all stakeholders—including customers, shareholders, employees and the communities where the company does business—to deliver engaging, valuable and sustainable mobility for all. Nissan’s pioneering efforts to promote electric vehicles, with their low environmental impact during operation, along with efforts to make mobility more affordable for people in emerging countries and the development of Autonomous Drive technologies that contribute to the realization of a society with virtually no traffic accidents are part of the value-creating initiatives rooted in this vision. This approach to corporate social responsibility is called “Blue Citizenship.” Through Blue Citizenship, Nissan aims to be recognized by its stakeholders as a company that lives up to the expectations of society. To share the company’s CSR-related thinking and activities to as broad an audience as possible, each year Nissan publishes a Sustainability Report. By sharing this information, the company increases the level of transparency of its actions while creating opportunities to improve its activities by incorporating feedback from stakeholders, thereby contributing to the development of a sustainable society. NISSAN MOTOR CORPORATION SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016 03 CEO MESSAGE “ Nissan will keep innovating with the goal of delivering value to our society. And we will keep working with our community of stakeholders to build a better world.” include promoting sustainable economic growth, infrastructure and energy solutions. We also continued our decade-long commitment to the core principles of the United Nations Global Compact. Internally, we took significant steps forward in promoting the use of electric vehicles—a segment that Nissan pioneered with the launch of the LEAF in 2010. With more than 200,000 units sold worldwide, it is the world’s best-selling EV. For the 2016 model year LEAF, we made it even better with the launch of an updated version. New 2016 model LEAFs have a battery capable of increasing electric motoring range by more than 20 percent—up to 280 kilometers on a single charge. EV technology will continue to be at the heart of Nissan’s product development efforts— Carlos Ghosn and provide the foundation of our autonomous drive vehicles. Nissan will be ready to deliver President and Chief Executive Officer autonomous drive vehicles capable of highway and city navigation by 2020. During the next four years, we will launch multiple vehicles with autonomous drive technology in Europe, the Nissan is proud to be leading the way toward a new era of sustainable mobility. Our goals are United States, Japan and China. This technology will be installed on mainstream, mass-market clear: We want to be one of the most sustainable companies in the world and to achieve long- cars at affordable prices; and the first model will be introduced this year in Japan. term growth by focusing on innovation and acting with integrity and transparency. Additionally, Although we have further to go in meeting our sustainability goals, as this report details, we want to use our engineering and technological expertise to help solve some of today’s most we are making meaningful progress. As we move forward, Nissan will keep innovating with the urgent social, environmental and safety challenges. Numerous breakthroughs we have brought goal of delivering value to our society. And we will keep working with our community of to the market—from the zero-emission Nissan LEAF to our cutting-edge Safety Shield stakeholders to build a better world. technologies—have been inspired by our vision of a better world. In 2015, we built on these efforts. At a global level, we reaffirmed Nissan’s commitment to our corporate vision of Enriching People’s Lives. At last year’s COP21 global climate- change conference in Paris, Nissan pledged its support for the conference goals. In addition, the Renault-Nissan Alliance provided a fleet of EVs that travelled more than 175,000 kilometers and highlighted the benefits of EV mobility. Nissan also pledged its support for Carlos Ghosn President and Chief Executive Officer the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations last year, which Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. NISSAN MOTOR CORPORATION SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016 04 Building Tomorrow’s Sustainable Mobility Society In a rapidly changing world, human societies face a range of challenges that impact them directly today and over the longer term. To help create a sustainable mobility society, Nissan is working to clarify those challenges and taking steps to come up with the solutions they require. Nissan’s Twin Goals: Zero Emissions and Zero Fatalities Creating a New Era with Nissan Intelligent Mobility Today’s society is broadly affected by the megatrends of climate change, demographic shifts in Toward the realization of these twin goals, Nissan is tackling a range of innovations. Collectively, populations and advancing urbanization. Growth in the global population is expected to bring the these are called Nissan Intelligent Mobility. Within this framework Nissan aims to present total number of automobiles in use worldwide to 2.5 billion by 2050. At the same time, the customers around the world with a roadmap toward a safer, more sustainable society, continuing transportation sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is estimated to be 14% of the its pursuit of the pleasure of driving as a means of mobility, while it also considers the three clearly global total. And while advanced safety technologies have spread to even more vehicles, bringing defined fields of how cars move, how they consume energy and how they relate to the rest of about enhanced automotive safety, some 1.25 million people still lose their lives in traffic accidents society. These three fields are positioned as follows: worldwide every year. To address these issues and achieve a world where everyone can make use • Nissan Intelligent Driving: Solutions such as Nissan’s autonomous drive technology, ProPilot, of sustainable mobility solutions, Nissan is aiming for two goals: zero emissions, with vehicles

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