OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

The operational backbone for your sustainability activities in Japan

Our Sustainability Operational and Secretariat Support gives Japanese companies and Japan subsidiaries of multinational groups the day-to-day operational capacity their sustainability strategy needs but rarely has in-house. Backed by a global team fluent in both Japanese organizational practice and international frameworks, we act as an extension of your sustainability function: running the secretariat, coordinating across departments and geographies, and organizing the events and touchpoints that keep sustainability visible and alive across your organization.

About this service

Sustainability strategies rarely fail for lack of ambition: they stall for lack of operational bandwidth. Most sustainability teams, whether at a Japanese company or a multinational’s Japan subsidiary, are small and stretched thin: expected to run governance processes, coordinate departments and regions that don’t share a language or a reporting culture, and keep employees engaged, all while tracking an expanding set of disclosure obligations.
Codo’s global team provides the ongoing operational support to keep that machinery running:

Committee secretariat: Agenda preparation, materials drafting (bilingual where needed), minute-taking, and follow-up tracking for your ESG Committee
Cross-departmental and cross-border coordination: Managing data requests and follow-ups across finance, procurement, HR, and business units, including coordination between Japan operations and overseas headquarters or subsidiaries, where language and reporting norms often differ.
Sustainability event planning and delivery: Organizing and running workshops, seminars, and external engagement events, handling everything from logistics and participant coordination to facilitation
Reporting operations: Maintaining data collection calendars, tracking KPI submissions, and preparing draft content ahead of disclosure deadlines (integrated reports, sustainability reports, ESG questionnaires, global group reporting).
Regulatory and framework monitoring: tracking developments across relevant jurisdictions (SSBJ, ISSB, GRI, CDP, and others) and translating what matters into plain business terms for both local and global stakeholders.
Project management: keeping action plans, roadmaps, and board or global HQ commitments on track between review cycles.

Thanks to our global team, we can support coordination that spans Japan and overseas offices in the same workflow.

FOR WHO?

Global Japanese companies

Companies whose sustainability team must coordinate overseas subsidiaries, translate global commitments into local execution, and report consistently across regions

Japan subsidiaries of multinational groups

Companies who need a local secretariat function that understands Japanese organizational dynamics while staying aligned with global HQ’s reporting calendar and expectations.