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In September 2025, Read the Air assembled a team to work with Japanese food companies for year on the intersection of corporate Sustainability performance and livestock management as the ESG, Farming, Food and Animal Welfare Roundtable Japan (E-FFAW). As result RtA has published "Rising to the Standard—Sustainability and Livestock Management in Japan's Food Industry: Structural Challenges, Evidence, and Practical Guidelines".
RtA performed its proprietary Sustainability Gap Analysis (SGA) across a sample of listed Japanese Food businesses, and found that the retail, processed food and fast food sectors are well positioned to report, while ingredient suppliers require improvements in certain important areas. Download "Setting the Table for Sustainability Disclosure" [日本語], for insights on how the retail, processed food and fast food sectors are well positioned to report, while ingredient suppliers require improvements in certain important areas.
Asian companies may not be experiencing much pressure on ESG-related disclosures at home, due to a slow rollout of climate and sustainability reporting regulations. But operations they have in the European Union may bring an end to this honeymoon period.
Download “The Long Arm of the Law” [日本語], on the impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directives (CSRD) beyond its borders.
“Leading Sustainably” by Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank is a perfect guide for managers who seek to understand the new age of the stakeholder, how to factor sustainability into their decision-making, and why the SDGs have changed everything. The book captures the ideas of more than 100 thought leaders and change makers from around the world about how business is putting sustainability at the core to survive, thrive, and realign its interests with society’s.