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Building a Sustainable World　　Masayuki Muraki, President

Environmental Management

The JAE Group Charter of Corporate Behavior declares our commitment to “harmony with the environment,” and we are embracing sustainability management. We respect the natural environment and work hard to ensure that everything we do is environmentally friendly.
　Last year, various disasters occurred around the world due to climate change. In Japan, Tokyo experienced its hottest days ever recorded in June, with temperatures exceeding 35°C for nine consecutive days, as well as major typhoons and heavy rainfall caused by linear precipitation belts. Abnormal weather also occurred frequently around the world, including severe droughts in the United States in August and heavy flooding caused by massive rainfall in South Asia from May to September. Under these circumstances, COP27 was held in November, and the IPCC 6th Assessment Report was subsequently published, stating that measures taken over the nextpast decade are crucial in protecting the global environment. In 2022, we once again recognize that climate change is a pressing issue that we must urgently address ourselves. Against this backdrop, the movement to build a sustainable world has intensified, and sustainability management is becoming ever more important for companies.
　The JAE Group recognizes the importance of growing sustainably while working to build a cyclical society by pursuing a wide range of environmental initiatives, including taking steps to address climate change. To this end, the JAE Group is shifting away from actions that are mere extensions of conventional measures and is boldly addressing new environmental challenges, while promoting sustainability management.

Masayuki Muraki, President

Environmental Activities

As part of the Group’s sustainability activities, the JAE Group not only seeks to comply with laws and regulations on the environment, but also to comprehensively monitor the environmental impact of its business activities. The Group’s environmental commitment includes a zero-tolerance policy about pollution, and the Group works to resolve environmental issues in nature overall, including taking steps to address climate change and protect biodiversity, and fulfilling its policy is to disclose necessary information publicly.
　Of all the environmental issues that we face, we view global warming as the most important, and we are all working together to address it.
　Specifically, we have set a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the JAE Group, and to achieve it we pursued rigorous energy conservation. We have also made significant progress in introducinged renewable energy, first at our main HAE and YAE plants, We will continue to pursue further reductions by expanding these efforts to other sites.
　The JAE Group aims to balance corporate activities and global environmental conservation by practicing environmentally friendly manufacturing. We ask for your continued understanding and support.

Masayuki Muraki, President