Environmental Management
Medium-term Environmental Conservation Plan
Progress of initiatives in the 7th Medium-Term Plan for Environmental Conservation Activities
In the 7th Mid-term Plan (FY2022-2024), we promote initiatives in four frameworks, including environmental management activities and natural environment conservation activities, centered on reducing the environmental impact of our business and contributing to the environment through our products. First, we are establishing a foundation for transiting our business activities to carbon-neutral by FY 2040 through activities by mainly improving the energy efficiency of our own business and implementing renewable energy in terms of reducing the environmental impact of our business. In FY2022, we reduced greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2), electricity consumption, water intake, and waste and valuables generation around 10% compared to FY 2021 in the intensity unit due to the impact of 17% increase in sales compared to the previous fiscal year in addition to each activity. On the other hand, the renewable energy consumption rate was 10.4%. We have monitored and reviewed greenhouse gases, electricity, water, and waste to reduce the environmental impact of our business activities. (Environmental performance). We will continue to conduct field surveys and analysis at each of our main bases, as well as share best practices and promote improvement activities.
Second, we will work to achieve quantitative targets linked to one of our materiality initiatives “contributing to decarbonization through products” and to promote the development and spread of new products that contribute to the environment in terms of contributing to the environment through products.
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Activity |
Three-year targets
(FY2024 goals) |
Results of FY2022 |
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Reduction
of environmental impact in business activities |
Promote
activities for reducing environmental impact by improving energy efficiency and
implementing renewable energy for achiving carbon neutrality in operations by
FY2040. |
As
belows |
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Greenhouse Gases |
Reduce by 3% on an intensity basis compared with FY2021 |
Reduce by 11.6% from FY2021 |
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Renewable electricity |
Consume renewable electricity by 30% of total electricity
consumption |
10.4% |
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Electricity consumption |
Reduce by 3% on an intensity basis compared with FY2021 |
Reduce by 8.7% from FY2021 |
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Water Withdrawal |
Reduce by 3% on an intensity basis compared with FY2021 |
Reduce by 12.7% from FY2021 |
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Amount of waste, valuables, generated |
Reduce by 3% on an intensity basis compared with FY2021 |
Reduce by 17.4% from FY2021 |
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Contribution to the environment through products |
Develop eco-friendly products and promote their use |
Start to establish environmental impact assessment methods from
the perspective of decarbonization. |
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Reduce CO2 emissions by installing the E-Axle drive motor system
for electric vehicles. |
Amount of CO2 emissions reduction: 253,000 t-CO2. |
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Reduce CO2 emissions by installing motors for electric power
steering. |
We plan to disclose the amount of CO2 emission reductions in the
future. |
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Environmental management |
Implement environmental education at business sites by 100% |
We plan to implement in 2023. |
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Acquire of ISO14001 for 80% or more based on the number of
employee |
76% |
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Environmental conservation |
Implement biodiversity conservation activities in cooperation
with external organizations (forest development, tree planting, etc.). |
Implemented 6 biodiversity conservation promotion activities in
cooperation with external organizations (forest maintenance, tree-planting,
etc.). |
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Support environmental education at the local community (hold environmental
classes for elementary school students, etc.). |
Held 13 environmental classes for elementary school students in
Japan. |
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* Intensity units are based on sales for production bases and on the number of employees for non-production bases.
Medium-term Environmental Conservation Plan: Number of Business Sites Covered
We focused on group companies that belonged to the NIDEC Group as of FY2015 since the 5th Plan (FY2016-FY2018) in the Medium-Term Environmental Conservation Plan. We proceed with initiatives in the 7th medium-term plan in the same coverage as following the 6th term (2019-2021). We will proceed to confirm the progress of initiatives and extract excellent examples and share the result to the whole Group by monitoring continually.
Number of business sites covered in the environmental conservation plan
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Fiscal |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
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The number of business sites |
83 |
81 |
88 |
86 |
81 |
