Environmental Report 2012

Significance of the Environmental Report

Significance of the 2012 Environmental Report

Climate change due to global warming, the power and energy problem resulting from last year's devastating earthquake and nuclear accident, and other issues are having a growing influence on business management. We believe that environmental activities are essential to our future business development. At the JAE Group, we regard protecting the global environment while pursuing our business activities as one of the key issues for development of the group, and the group as a whole is committed to achieving this goal. 

I would like to mention the noteworthy environmental activities that we have been pursuing in accordance with this policy. In FY 2011, we focused on addressing climate change, and also set a variety of targets in areas such as reducing the use of raw materials and chemical substances, and promoting green procurement, and we have been working hard to achieve these targets. Specifically, we switched over to production systems with more efficient energy and raw materials usage, and we strictly enforced the conservation of electricity through Cool Biz and Warm Biz programs. At the same time, we undertook a range of awareness raising campaigns such as our Ten-Point Plan for Saving Energy to encourage employees to save energy at home as well. As a result of our efforts, particularly measures for saving electricity after the earthquake and intensive awareness campaigns, we substantially met our targets for reduction of average CO2 emissions per unit of real sales, and attained all of our other targets.
The challenging business environment is expected to persist into FY 2012, and we will continue to implement our electricity conservation programs this summer, focusing our efforts on increasing our energy-saving and resource-conservation measures, teaching environmental awareness, and pursuing environmental management activities.
This online environmental report summarizes our FY 2011 environmental activities. Nothing would please me more than to hear your opinions on how we could make further improvements to our environmental activities.