Environmental Initiatives

In its ESG strategy for its medium-term management plan "RISE TO GROWTH 2026," which begins in fiscal 2024, the Itoki Group has set out the "ITOKI Ecosystem Initiative toward 2050 - Coexistence with Nature," which aims to contribute to the realization of a society with zero negative impacts on ecosystems, centered on the three themes of "responding to climate change," "promoting resource circulation," and "utilizing sustainable materials." We believe that the three themes in this initiative are inevitably linked in some way, and we will promote various business activities that contribute to protecting Planet environment, with these as our priority areas.

The Itoki Group has established the "Itoki Group Environmental Policy" and specific "Action Guidelines" that serve as guidelines for all environmental activities, and shares these with the entire group and suppliers as we engage in environmental conservation activities.

Since first obtaining ISO14001 certification in 1998, Itoki has continued to develop environmental activities, such as promoting modal shifts, launching the "Econifa" solution that utilizes local materials, installing low-temperature painting equipment, and introducing self-consumption solar power generation. We will continue to promote creative initiatives in the future.

The Itoki Group is actively participating in initiatives related to climate change and resource circulation. We will promote climate change countermeasures and strive to further enhance information disclosure by declaring our support for the TCFD recommendations, responding to CDP, endorsing the Joint Climate Initiative (JCI), and submitting a commitment letter to obtain certification for greenhouse gas reduction targets (SBT) that are scientifically consistent with the targets set out in the Paris Agreement.

In order to realize a carbon-free society, the Itoki Group revised its existing 2030 _CO2 emissions reduction target in 2023 to a value that complies with the standards of the international initiative SBTi. The new target changes the base year from fiscal 2013 to fiscal 2022, and aims to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 42.7% compared to fiscal 2022 by 2030, and Scope 3 emissions by 25.0% compared to fiscal 2022. Group companies that were not previously included in the calculations have been added, and the entire Group will work together to advance the initiative.

In the three-year Mid-term Environmental Plan 2026, we will monitor items where we expect a certain level of effectiveness, set targeted goals, and steadily work toward them. Our goal for reducing _CO2 emissions in 2026 is to achieve 50% of the 2030 goal. For other items, we have set goals and indicators based on reduction performance over the past five years.

In order to implement continuous environmental improvement activities, the Itoki Group has established the Itoki Group Environmental Policy and established an environmental management organization (EMS organization) based on ISO14001. Through the PDCA activities of the environmental management system, we are taking effective measures with a focus on "environmental performance improvement" and "compliance with environmental laws and regulations." We strive to further reduce environmental risks and ensure environmental compliance by conducting company-wide internal audits once a year to review the performance achievements of each organization and audits by external auditing organizations to ensure the objectivity of activity results.