- ▶Turning off the lights of the main gates and main buildings of business sites in Korea, including Suwon
- - To join the initiative for environmental conservation and energy saving
- ▶Established the ESG Committee within the BOD and appointed an independent director specializing in the environment as the chairperson as part of efforts to practice ESG management
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is joining the global lights-out campaign Earth Hour 2022 by switching off lights at business sites in Korea including Suwon.
Earth Hour is the world’s largest climate crisis response campaign led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), a non-profit nature conservation organization. To share the seriousness of climate change, citizens around the world turn off their lights for one hour from 8:30 pm on the last Saturday of March every year.
Participating in the Earth Hour campaign for the first time this year, Samsung Electro-Mechanics will turn off the lights at the main gates and major buildings of its business sites on weekday evenings when electricity usage is high as a pre-event. Participation in this campaign is expected to save about 250KW of electricity.
To encourage employees' participation on the campaign day, the company will also hold an "energy-saving photo-taking event," in which employees take photos of them turning off lights, lighting candles, or unplugging plugs with their family.
“We decided to join the campaign as we deeply resonate with the importance of raising awareness of environmental issues and energy saving," said Chang Duckhyun, CEO of Samsung Electro-Mechanics. "We will practice ESG management, which is becoming increasingly important, by continuously carrying out activities for carbon neutrality."
Meanwhile, Samsung Electro-Mechanics appointed Lee Yoonjeong, a new independent director, as the chairman of the ESG Committee under the Board of Directors at the regular general meeting of shareholders held on March 16. The ESG Committee was established last year to increase corporate value and reinforce ESG management by managing and supervising policies and key issues related to the environment, society, and corporate governance at the board level.