2. PRESERVATION OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 2. Preserving the global environment
We give preference to selling environmentally friendly products while accurately grasping customers’ needs on environmental issues in our role as a Technology Driven Trading company.
We also actively pursue energy conservation, resource conservation, and waste reduction, and contribute to efforts to halt global warming.
Main Initiatives
ISO9001
We have acquired ISO14001 environmental management certification.In addition to promoting activities to continually improve global environmental conservation efforts, we also engage in efforts to shift towards a recycling-based society, including adapting to tightening environmental regulations in countries around the world.
TCFD recommendation-based disclosures (Climate change initiatives)
In June 2022, our company announced our agreement with the recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and participated in the TCFD Consortium, a venue for discussions between supporting organizations and financial institutions.
Our disclosures consistent with the TCFD recommendations have been included in the attached documents.Moving forward, we will strive for more and higher quality disclosures regarding the effects of climate change-related risks and profit opportunities on our company’s business activities and income.
Approach to a decarbonized society (SDA)
- Improving our environmental contributions to over 100 times our CO2 emissions by FY2050 -
Our company is continuously taking active steps to tackle environmental problems based on our corporate creed: “Develop Talents, Build Business, Contribute to Society.We view global warming as a shared global issue that has a major impact on the natural environment and society, and we aim to achieve a decarbonized society by reducing the environmental burden and contributing to the environment through sales activities.
Our approach to a decarbonized society (SDA*) aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) from our businesses by 20% compared with FY2020 by FY2030.As illustrated in the diagram at left, we aim to achieve an emissions reduction effect of over 100 times our company’s greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3) compared with FY2020 by FY2050 through environmentally friendly product sales.
- SDA：Sunwa Decarbonized society Approach
Status of environmental initiative achievements (t-CO2e)
| FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental contribution | 320,346 | 561,199 | 722,598 |
| Progress | 0.86 times | 1.50 times | 1.94 times |
- Note: Base value is 373,396.1 (t-CO2) (Total greenhouse gas emissions of Scope 1, 2, and 3 in FY2020)
Chemical management system (green procurement activities)
Our company has established a chemical management system in line with the requirements of ISO9001, ISO14001, and industry standards.In order to enable the preferential sale of environmentally friendly products, our company has established procedures for properly managing harmful chemicals included in the products we procure from suppliers, and we share our company’s requirements for green procurement activities with our suppliers and distributors so that they can comply.