Sustainable Development Organization and Management
Sustainable Development Committee
YOKE established its Sustainable Development Committee in 2019, with the chairman as the chairman and the general manager serving as the vice chairman. They preside over four major areas of the Company’s operation, with directors or higher-ranking managers serving in the committee as its members representing relevant departments. The Committee holds the Sustainable Strategy Meeting in October each year to establish targets based on material issues of disclosure, with each group launching a corresponding course of action. The Committee also meets quarterly to report on the implementation for various objectives. In addition, we have also arranged regular workshops on relevant topics of sustainability for the committee so that committee members can gain more knowledge on sustainability and learn from other benchmark enterprises. In an effort to fortify YOKE employees’ awareness of corporate sustainability values, we had also incorporated introductory training on corporate sustainability in our orientation training for new employees starting from November 2019 in the hopes of strengthening the concept of sustainable corporate development for all YOKE employees.
Identification of material issues for disclosure
YOKE follows the GRI sustainability reporting principles for the guideline of reporting, conducts a six-step collegial process, follows the principles of stakeholder inclusion, traces of sustainability, significance and integrity during each of the following stages. This enables us to identify the major stakeholders and material issues of concern and the boundaries of information disclosure for this report.
STEP 01
Identify key stakeholders
Identified six major types of key stakeholders
STEP 02
Gathering of sustainability issues
Summarized 14 sustainability issues through a questionnaire
STEP 03
Survey for level of concern
Recovered 224 questionnaires on sustainability issues
STEP 04
Analysis of impact on YOKE’s operation
9 senior managers assessed the impact of relevant sustainability issues
STEP 05
Determine the material issues for disclosure
Verified 11 material topics to be disclosed
STEP 06
Corresponding GRI material issues
Established connection between the chosen topics to the 17 SDGs and 38 disclosure indicators