The Kyoto Planet Group is an eco-conscious financial services and media company, working toward global social and environmental sustainability through investment, collaboration and education.

At Kyoto Planet, we are committed to increasing social, economic, and environmental benefits as we strive to become a profitable and competitive company. Our commitment to conduct operations in a socially responsible manner extends to our business principles, our direct and indirect interaction with the environment, our interactions with communities and stakeholders, and our treatment of our employees.

Our Business Principles

Kyoto Planet will conduct our business guided by the central goal of improving our planet. We are committed to:

• Ensuring all Kyoto Planet corporate activities seek to harmonize social, economic, and environmental interests, putting in place the highest standards of integrity and corporate governance with all Kyoto Planet Group companies.
• Enacting governance structuring based on transparency; clearly defined roles and responsibilities; financial probity; accountability; and measured outcomes.
• Establishing an audit committee to review our purchasing and investment practices.
• Advocating carbon neutrality and ethical business practices in all third-party associations, partners, suppliers and investments of Kyoto Planet.

The Environment

We take our responsibility to be corporate leaders in environmental sustainability very seriously and believe we must go farther than simply complying with applicable environmental legislation and regulation. We are committed to:

• Making the environment a key component of business decisions.
• Being a carbon neutral organization.
• Ensuring the projects we invest in create a positive impact on the environment.
• Measuring and reporting not only the financial impacts of our business but also the social and environmental impacts.
• Establishing and developing corporate social responsibility management systems to audit our performance.
• Distributing one third of net revenue to the Kyoto Planet Foundation to fund environmental groups striving to solve issues of climate change and sustainable living.

The Community

We believe that corporate responsibility should not be judged by how much you give to a community but rather how you operate in that community. We are committed to:

• Engaging local citizens in a meaningful way.
• Operating in open and transparent manner.
• Being respectful of other cultures.
• Expanding our view of community beyond our physical presences to all those interested in global sustainability.
• Being a trusted source for knowledge, goods and services in the environmental and sustainability space.
• Providing an uncensored independent forum for discussing and distributing ideas on environmental sustainability.

Our Workplace

Our business depends on the skills, talent and energy of our employees. We are committed to:

• Providing a workplace that is rewarding and encourages respect making available the necessary tools to help our employee reach their full potential.
• Educating our employees about our environmental initiatives and working with them to reduce their environmental footprint.