2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace[Archive]

What is the Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace?

The forum brings together concerned parties to share anew the importance of achieving global peace, a prerequisite for conducting business activities, through multifaceted discussions on ways to connect business and peace building. The forum is also designed to provide the business community with the opportunity to reconsider its role in realizing a peaceful world without nuclear weapons and explore ways to make concrete contributions to achieving this goal.
Since 2013, Hiroshima Prefecture has hosted eight forums , inviting leaders from Japan and abroad, including business executives, to discuss peacebuilding through business and share these discussions globally.
The "2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace" was held over two days, May 30 and 31, 2025, marking the 80th remembrance of the atomic bombing and the end of the war.

Result of the 2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace

The "2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace" was held over two days, May 30 and May 31, 2025, in a hybrid format (in-person and online).At the beginning of the forum, the "2025 Hiroshima Declaration" was adopted as a guideline to accelerate the contribution of the business community to peace.This declaration aims to advance a global shift from “ESG” (Environmental, Social, and Governance), which refers to investment activities and management and business activities that take into consideration environmental, social, and governance factors, to “ESGP” (Environmental, Social, Governance, and Peace).
2025 Hiroshima Declaration

Each of the sessions addressed the instability of the current global landscape through multifaceted discussions on the future of capitalism, engagement with emerging technologies such as generative AI, and the formation of a new world order in the context of geopolitical shifts.

Session 3
Also, Partner Sessions were held in collaboration with world-renowned business schools and leading global strategy consulting firms.

Partner Session

We will continue to promote business contributions to peace by taking advantage of the ESGP advocated in the 2025 Hiroshima Declaration, the discussions in the sessions, and the new networks formed at the forum.

Forum overview

Date:

Friday, May 30th to Saturday, May 31st, 2025

Venue:

Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima (2nd Floor, "Setouchi")
Address: 23-1 Motoujina-machi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8543 Japan
(Simultaneous online streaming)

Topic:

"The Role of Business Leaders in a Divided World: The Future of Peace, Sustainability, and Technology"

Organizers:

Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), Nikkei Inc.

Media Partner:

Financial Times

Sponsors:

DREAMBED Co., Ltd., Micron Memory Japan, K.K., MARUI SANGYO Co., Ltd.

Program:

* Please check the dedicated website for details.

1) May 30, Friday

■Adoption of Hiroshima Declaration
Governor Yuzaki and the Executive Committee (EC) members have adopted the “2025 Hiroshima Declaration” as a guideline to accelerate the contribution of the business community to peace. This declaration aims to advance a global shift from “ESG” (Environmental, Social, and Governance) which refers to investment activities and management and business activities that take into consideration environmental, social, and governance factors, to “ESGP” (Environmental, Social, Governance, and Peace) .
Hiroshima Prefecture and Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) will actively seek support from the business community under the banner of ESGP and work to promote concrete actions by business sectors to contribute to peace.
2025 Hiroshima Declaration
■Keynote Speech
　Escalating World Division and the Era of Ethical Capitalism
　Speaker: Markus GABRIEL, Philosopher/ Professor, the University of Bonn
■Plenary Session 1
　Future of Capitalism, the World Economy, Business, and World Peace
■Plenary Session 2
　Generative AI and Humanity's Future
■Plenary Session 3
　Rise of Global South and the Transformation of the World Order
■Plenary Session 4
　Reconstruction from 80 years since the end of the war ～From Japan to the world～

2) May 31, Saturday

■Partner's session 【Session presented by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management】
　Business as a Force for Peace: ESG, Sustainability, and Economic Resilience in a Changing World
■Partner's session
　Architecture for Peace -Community Contribution and Disaster Relief Through Architecture
■Partner's session 【Session presented by McKinsey & Company】
　The New CEO Imperative: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Global Order
■Plenary Session 5
　Hiroshima Spirit ～Hiroshima's reconstruction and how to create the future～
■Partner's session 【Session presented by IMD】
　Governance for Peace: Lessons from the Public and Private Sectors
■Partner's session 【Session presented by the Tokyo Community with Hiroshima for Global Peace】
　Beyond Sustainability -The Potential of New Capital to Integrate Business and Peace-
■Plenary Session 6
　Making the Abolition of Nuclear Weapon as Global Agenda for Sustainable Future
■Closing