Environmental Management

The Asahi Kasei Group's Global Environmental Policy

1. Building a low-carbon society

• (1)Taking into account Japan's Plan for Global Warming Countermeasures and Nippon Keidanren's "Proposal on Japan's long-term growth strategy under the Paris Agreement," the Asahi Kasei Group aims for greenhouse gas emissions related to its business activities to meet reduction targets by 2030 and 2035.
• (2) The Asahi Kasei Group will promote energy conservation across the full range of our business activities with the aim of preventing global warming and conserving limited resources.
• (3)The Asahi Kasei Group will develop a plan to reduce CO₂ (Scope 3) emissions from its supply chain.
• (4)The Asahi Kasei Group will help create a low-carbon society incorporating our proprietary technologies, contributing to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions by providing products, technologies, and services to the global market.

2. Preserving water resources

The Asahi Kasei Group will contribute to preserving global water resources through our water purification membrane module business, water recycling service business, and the sale of water quality monitoring equipment and wastewater treatment products. It will measure water withdrawals while striving to maintain and improve the efficiency of its water usage.

3. Building a Circular Economy

The Asahi Kasei Group will promote the reduction of environmental impacts and the efficient utilization of resources and energy throughout the entire life cycle in its business activities in order to contribute to a circular economy. Specifically, it will promote the 3Rs of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, and increase the usage of resources and energy with lower environmental impacts as well as renewable resources and energy.

4. Achieving harmony with nature

The Asahi Kasei Group will give due consideration to the conservation of natural capital and biodiversity, and promote the reduction of environmental impacts of its business activities. We will also monitor and carefully manage our use of land and biological resources.

5. Improve the level of management at our overseas plants

The Asahi Kasei Group will create monitoring items that enable environmental management practices equivalent to those at its plants in Japan.

6. Collaboration with our supply chain partners

The Asahi Kasei Group will proactively collaborate with members of its supply chain to undertake the abovementioned activities.

Quantitative indicators and targets of global environmental measures

1. Building a low-carbon society

GHG emissions

By 2050, carbon neutral
By 2035, emissions reduction of 40% or more (from fiscal 2013)
By 2030, emissions reduction of 30% or more (from fiscal 2013)

Clean power generation

Maintain use of biomass fuel at 60% or more by energy content in mixed combustion at the biomass power plant in Nobeoka.

2. Energy management target

Management target

Improve unit energy consumption by an annual average of at least 1% over a 5-year period.

3. Water resource preservation activity target